Travis Kelce as soon as praised a thriller “Cupid” for masterminding his romance with Taylor Swift, and the matchmaker’s identification has in spite of everything been printed.
“Funny thing is, a lot of people have been trying to figure out who I am lately. It’s been an interesting month or so [and] I’ve been going to a few Chiefs games,” Swift’s 2d cousin Danny Frye III advised FloRacing TV in a Saturday, January 13, interview. “You know, [I] made a love connection between her and Travis Kelce, so it’s been quite the 34 years that [Taylor and I have] had together.”
Frye, a mud observe racer, has prior to now been noticed in a personal field with Swift, 34, at Kelce’s Kansas Town Chiefs video games. (Frye advised FloRacing that whilst he and Swift are technically 2d cousins, they “grew up pretty close.”)
Swift has been courting Kelce, 34, since summer season 2023.
“There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said], ‘Yo! Did you know he was coming?’ I had somebody playing Cupid,” Kelce advised WSJ. Mag in November 2023, reputedly hinting at Frye’s identification with out bringing up a reputation. “She [later] told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.”
Kelce expressed hobby in Swift the former July, bringing up on his “New Heights” podcast that he noticed her Eras Excursion live performance in Missouri and made a friendship bracelet along with his telephone quantity to interchange. Then again, they weren’t in a position to fulfill and Kelce felt “butthurt” through the overlooked connection.
As soon as Kelce’s podcast feedback had been despatched to Swift, they “started hanging out right [away],” which she recalled to TIME in a December 2023 duvet tale.
“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,” Swift added to the hole.
Swift and Kelce took their courting public two months after the podcast clip went viral. She attended her first Chiefs sport in September 2023, sitting in a personal field with Kelce’s mom.
“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple,” Swift added to TIME. “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.”
The Grammy winner has since been a staple at Kelce’s soccer video games all over the 2023-2024 season. She maximum not too long ago attended Saturday’s AFC Wild Card sport in opposition to the Miami Dolphins, the place she wore her boyfriend’s jersey quantity for the primary time. Kristin Juszczyk, whose husband is San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, designed Swift a customized puffer coat comprised of Kelce’s #87 jerseys. Swift’s buddy Brittany Mahomes wore an identical one with husband Patrick Mahomes’ main points.