The NFL star got candid about calling Swift his fiancée for the first time and thanked everyone for their well-wishes after the couple’s Instagram announcement.
WASHINGTON — Travis Kelce is opening up about his recent engagement to popstar Taylor Swift.
The Kansas City Chiefs star addressed the news for the first time on Wednesday’s episode of his “New Heights” podcast with his brother Jason Kelce. The couple announced news of their engagement on Instagram back in August with a series of photos of the proposal in a garden.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨,” Swift captioned the post.
Travis broke his silence on the engagement on the New Heights episode, calling the past week “exciting” and “awesome.”
“It’s been really fun telling everybody who I’m going to be spending the rest of my life with,” Kelce said, thanking fans and friends for their well-wishes after the couple announced the engagement in a joint Instagram post last week.
Travis admitted he still “gets giddy” about calling Swift his fiancée and noted he used the term publicly for the first time while attending the University of Nebraska versus University of Cincinnati football game with Swift.
“It was the first time introducing Taylor as my fiancée to a few of my teammates,” he recalled. “So yeah, it was pretty cool.”
Jason had posted a short video last week congratulating the couple since that episode had been recorded before the brothers could discuss the proposal.
“We felt it was necessary, as a team here at New Heights, to get together and send Travis and Taylor a giant congratulations for being engaged,” Jason said in the clip.
On the latest episode, Jason asked his brother to share advice for proposing to someone.
“You gotta know your gal, and you can’t let how somebody else does it make you feel like you gotta do it that way,” Travis said. “You might be able to get some ideas from how other people did it, it might get the creative juices flowing. But know your partner, know who you’re doing it for. Everything else will be beautiful.”
