Never underestimate the sleuthing powers of the Swifties. On the heels of TIIME’s Person of the Year cover story celebrating Taylor Swift — in which the pop superstar detailed the timeline of her relationship with Travis Kelce — fans of the Grammy winner unearthed a months-old clip on Wednesday that featured the Chiefs tight end discussing his personal life.
During a September installment of the “New Heights” podcast, Travis converses about dating with his older brother, Eagles center Jason Kelce, and sister-in-law, Kylie Kelce. As Kylie remarked, “I think you’re doing great on your own,” Jason appeared to grin, with fans in real-time calling out the smirks and trying to decipher the body language. “Look at their smirks when talking about ‘setting Travis up’!! This was recorded early September!” X user @belixa13 posted alongside the video. It’s time to bring this back after Taylor 100% confirmed they were taking in late July. Like common, look at their smirks when talking about ‘setting Travis up’!! This was recorded early September! A separate user commented, “Their faces tho,” alongside two crying laughing emojis. “Now, all those facial expressions shown by Jason has make sense. Your so sneaky,” another X user posted. Though Swift, 33, and Travis, 34, stepped out publicly in October, as the “Cruel Summer” singer told Time, they were very much a “couple” when she attended her first Chiefs game on Sept. 24
“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date,” Swift said. Kelce first expressed interest in Swift over the summer after he detailed his failed plan to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during her “Eras Tour” stop in Kansas City. That didn’t go unnoticed by Swift, who revealed to TIME that the pair “started hanging out right after that.” “This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift said of Kelce’s comments from July. “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.” Kelce, who is currently in the middle of the NFL season, recently traveled to South America on the Chiefs’ bye week to support Swift as she resumed the international leg of her tour. Swift, now on hiatus until early 2024, attended Kelce’s latest Chiefs game on Sunday, a 27-19 loss to the Packers. “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, other people are there and we don’t care,” she said. “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.”
