Travis Kelce’s relationship with Taylor Swift didn’t just soar to new heights in 2023 — “it kind of just took the f–k off.”
That’s according to the star Chiefs tight end, who peeled back the curtain on the couple’s love story in the September 2025 issue of GQ that dropped Tuesday.
“Whenever I’m with her, it feels like we’re just regular people,” Kelce said. “When there is not a camera on us, we’re just two people that are in love. It can be perceived as something else because of how much it is talked about and how much we are tracked whenever we do go out, but I would say that it’s as normal of…. It happened very organically even though from a media standpoint it was being tracked. It still happened very organically.”
The three-time Super Bowl champion, 35, was first linked to Swift, also 35, in the summer of 2023, when he expressed interest in connecting with her at an Eras Tour stop in Kansas City, hoping to pass along a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it.
Swift, who had been touring throughout the U.S. that year, made her first Chiefs appearance in September 2023, and fans — not to mention the dads, Brads and Chads — have not been the same since.
Kelce joined Swift on tour during the 2024 offseason, even making his Eras Tour debut in Europe, while the 14-time Grammy winner has attended various Chiefs games, including their Super Bowl 2025 defeat to the Eagles in February.
Despite the heightened attention on their every move, at the end of the day, Kelce says he and Swift are simply “two fun-loving people who have the morals to appreciate everyone for who they are.”
“Nothing I’ve ever done has been a controlled, organized process,” he said. “When I say it was so organic, we fell in love just based off the people we were sitting in a room together with. We are two fun-loving people who have the morals to appreciate everyone for who they are. We share all those values. It just kind of took the f–k off.”
Swift, who spent the offseason with Kelce as he prepares for his 13th season in the league, even made a pitstop on his “New Heights” podcast to tease her upcoming 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
