Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged : NPR

Global music icon Taylor Swift is engaged to soccer participant Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs after about two years of relationship.

Swift and Kelce, each 35, shared the information on Tuesday in a joint put up on Instagram with the caption: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” The put up confirmed images of Kelce, kneeling in a backyard, and her carrying a big ring. The precise date and site of the proposal weren’t revealed.

Attached to the put up is the pop star’s track “So High School” from her eleventh and most up-to-date album, The Tortured Poets Department. The observe is extensively believed to be about Swift and Kelce’s romance. It’s additionally one other nod to their brawn and brains dynamic. (The lyrics go, You know learn how to ball, I do know Aristotle.)

The announcement comes almost two weeks after the singer-songwriter introduced the discharge of her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl. It’s additionally lower than 10 days away from the beginning of the 2025-26 NFL season.

Swift and Kelce started relationship within the second half of 2023 after Kelce admitted on a podcast he co-hosts together with his brother Jason that he had attended Swift’s live performance in Kansas City, Mo., and tried to satisfy her.

“I was a little butt-hurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her,” Kelce stated on New Heights in July 2023.

“I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it,” he later added.

Just a few months later, Swift was noticed at a Chiefs recreation — the first of many. In the long run, Kelce would additionally make a number of shock cameos throughout her concert events.

She spoke publicly about their relationship throughout a December 2023 interview with Time when the journal named her Person of the Year.

“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” she stated.

Their romance triggered a frenzy amongst Swifties and soccer followers alike. It additionally led to a spike in NFL viewership amongst girls.

“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other,” she stated within the Time interview. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

Swift is thought for her many love songs. One of her earliest hits has lengthy served as a preferred engagement anthem.

In “Love Story,” she sings: He knelt to the bottom and pulled out a hoop / And stated, “Marry me, Juliet.”

Some 17 years after releasing the track, she is the one saying sure.