By Marisa Laudadio
8:13am PST, Jan 31, 2024
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If you're obsessed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, you're not alone: Hollywood stars, sports personalities and even a former president are right there with you with their opinions on how it's going for the Grammy-winning music star and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end.
As Travis's team prepares to take on the San Francisco 49ers at Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, we're taking a look back at the famous voices who've weighed in on the couple, for better or worse, starting with Travis himself.
After the pop singer and the NFL star finally confirmed weeks of rumors about their budding romance when she sat with his mom and childhood friends at a Chiefs game in Kansas City on Sept. 24 — then shared PDA with him at an afterparty — Travis praised the beauty.
"Shout out to Taylor for pulling up, that was pretty ballsy," he said on the "New Heights" podcast he hosts with his brother. "I just thought it was awesome how everybody in the suite had nothing but great things to say about her. You know, the friends and family. She looked amazing. Everybody was talking about her in a great light and on top of that, the day went perfect for Chiefs fans, of course."
Taylor was soon in the stands again (and again) and she and Travis enjoyed date nights in New York City before he flew to Argentina to watch her perform on her "The Eras Tour." Along the way, they got a lot of support — and some hate — from famous observers…
Keep reading to see which stars have weighed in…
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Late night legend David Letterman sounded fed up with Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's haters when he defended the couple on Instagram in a video message on Jan. 28.
"I don't think in the history of show business or the history of popular culture we've ever witnessed anything like this. Tremendous! She fills stadiums around the world and puts on a three-hour show," Dave said of Taylor ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl spot-ensuring victory over the Baltimore Ravens.
"We live in a world now where all we hear is nonsense and ugliness. The nonsense can't be more nonsensical and the ugliness, God hopes it can't get any uglier. But that's all we hear. And now here's Taylor Swift, who is a glowing bright light of goodness in the world, and she starts dating Kelsey Grammer," he joked.
At that point, an off-camera voice could be heard correcting the late-night alum, telling him "Travis Kelce," not Kelsey Grammer, is the boyfriend-in-question.
"The [Travis] people say, 'Oh, no, no, no, don't bother us. We're all caught up in football. We don't want Taylor and football.' And the Taylor Swift people, the Swifties, are saying, 'Oh, we don't want a footballer in here with [her]," Dave continued.
"And I say to both camps, 'This is such a lovely thing. Shut up! It's good for the footballers. It's good for Taylor Swift and it's something positive and happy for the world. And also politically, Taylor Swift is a huge force, and I think just wants to see people do the right thing. So God bless Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce."
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The same day David Letterman called out Taylor Swift's NFL-loving haters on Instagram, failed Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy shared a conspiracy theory suggesting Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's romance has nefarious ties to her support for Joe Biden four years ago and the results of the upcoming Super Bowl on Feb. 11.
"I wonder who's going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there's a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let's see how it ages over the next 8 months," Vivek wrote on X on Jan. 29.
He was replying to a post by Jack Posobiec, an alt-right media personality and conspiracy theorist who Philadelphia magazine once dubbed "The King of Fake News."
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"It's fun dating a football player, especially one that is amazing and as good as Travis [Kelce]. That's fun," actress Holly Robinson Peete — who's married to former NFL star Rodney Peete — told Us Weekly in November 2023. "It's exciting and I'm rooting for them."
She added, "A lot of people I know, my friends, football fan friends are like, 'I don't want to hear about it.' I love it, I want to see all of it. I was so sad when [Taylor Swift] wasn't at Monday Night Football [when the Chiefs played the Eagles] because I wanted to see the in-laws."
She loves the couple so much, she even hopes they tie the knot. "It's a big spotlight, but I think they're handling it super well," Holly said. "I'm team Taylor/Kelce. I want her to marry him."
She also weighed in on how things are different for the pair from when she and Rodney — whom she started seeing when he was the star quarterback for the Detroit Lions in the '90s — got together.
"We were all over the papers and everything. But what we didn't have was social media," Holly noted. "So we dodged many a bullet by not having so many people weigh in on our lives and weigh in on football."
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After two outlets reported that Taylor Swift's close friends Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid didn't approve of the music superstar's romance with Travis Kelce because she was moving too fast, Gigi took to the comments in another outlet's Instagram post to shoot down those claims.
"I'm a couple days late to this tag.. but didn't the press try this last week w Selena? Let it be… we are all over the moon for our girl. Period," the supermodel wrote.
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"I'm so, so happy for her," model-actress Cara Delevingne — who's one of Taylor Swift's close friends — told E! News of her feelings about the singer dating Travis Kelce. "There's definitely something very different about them."
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"I am painfully invested in this," "One Tree Hill" actress Hilarie Burton tweeted after Taylor Swift attended Travis Kelce's game in Kansas City on Sept. 24. Responding to another invested X (formerly Twitter) user who posted the message, "Like when is the homecoming dance," Hilarie wrote, "Girl. It's too adorable. I can't be cool. The cute lil Chiefs jacket? The convertible?? The touchdown?!? Put it in my veins."
When another fan wrote, "Taylor and Travis will get married. Calling it now," Hilarie responded, "Same same same."
On Sept. 25, Hilarie tweeted, "Pro tip…you deserve someone who invites you to work with them. It shows: 1. They think you're so awesome and they want everyone from buddies to the boss to meet you. 2. They work hard and they're GOOD, and they want you to see that. Flew to see [my husband] JDM on a set 14 yrs ago. #kelceswift."
But she wasn't done yet!
On Sept. 28, the actress wrote on X, "Just now, son and I hit the supermarket and pop back to the meat aisle where they had some football displays. My boy asks loudly if we were going to 'watch the Taylor Swift football game this weekend.' I say 'I can't WAIT for the T. Swift game!' The menfolk were not pleased!"
But the best tweets were yet to come from Hilarie — and her husband, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan…
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After Taylor Swift changed the lyrics to her hit "Karma" from "the guy on the screen" to "the guy on the Chiefs" as Travis Kelce watched — and reacted with blushing glee — during her concert in Argentina on Nov. 11, Hilarie Burton weighed in on X.
"They are gonna have the most flannel lined, pie and red ribbon kinda Christmas…. and then these babies are gonna be engaged by May," the actress predicted. When a fan noted that Taylor had never done that for any other guy, Hilarie responded and referenced her husband, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, writing: "Because every other guy made her feel like she had to downplay her own work. This big ol beefy tree of a man is holding up signs and singing along! Catching her as she runs offstage?!?! Just saying…. strong @JDMorgan energy. Get a man who lights up when you win."
Jeffrey then posted about his wife's comments, sharing on X, "I do love how invested my wife is in this relationship! And as far as Taylor and Travis? Good for them. Happy for both of em. I know that feeling they have right now… I've had it for 15 years, and It's a good one."
Hilarie responded to him, "My dude. I'm over here grinning. Hahaha. Come home so I can make you look at internet cuteness while we drink coffee in the kitchen!!!!"
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"Queer Eye" star Antoni Porowski — one of Taylor Swift's friends who attended the Kansas City Chiefs game in New York with the singer on Oct. 1 — is rooting for Taylor and Travis Kelce's romance.
"I couldn't be happier," Antoni told People magazine at an Expedia event in November. "I'm very supportive. She's an incredible, formidable woman who's managing to tour the world over. My hopes for them as a couple are that they just that they continue to be really happy and to enjoy this moment and all the future moments to come."
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"So I'm not a Taylor Swift fan. And I don't mean that in a negative way. Like, I went to her concert, I had a great time, I have tremendous respect for how hard she works and it's just like certain people, you're not an active fan," Bethenny Frankel began a lengthy TokTok video about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce after the music star went to his NFL game on Sept. 24.
"I've heard when in the past you guys have said she buys houses near guys she dates and she gets really into the guy she's with," Bethenny continued.
"That happens, that's common. So there's a new guy that she's dating who's on the Kansas City Chiefs … but I did notice that at the game she was really, really over the top as a fan and chumming with the mom and it felt like the Chia Pet of relationships, like, 'just add water,' like they were together for 10 years like she's a full football wife."
Bethenny explained that in her opinion, "football's different than music or going to the MTV awards … because people in their own spaces are wary of newcomers … football fans are very tricky — they like loyalists, like ride or die, not interested in people coming in for a short ride. Sports fans are die-hard, as are music fans…"
The former Bravo star then went on to explain that she tells her daughter to "maintain your own identity" because "you don't want to absorb your whole life into someone else's."
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At the first People's Choice Country Awards on Sept. 28, country music singer Kelsea Ballerini — who's friends with Taylor Swift and was the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" when Travis Kelce hosted in March 2023 — was asked about the pair's new romance.
"I love Travis. We did 'SNL' together. I love Taylor. We were close for many years. I want happiness for everyone, so … vibe," Kelsea told "Extra."
Then after a clip of Taylor running into Travis's arms and kissing him at the end of her concert in Argentina on Nov. 11 went viral, Kelsea — who's done the same with her actor boyfriend, Chase Stokes, took to TikTok to share her thoughts, writing alongside a video of herself slow clapping and nodding her head in approval, "Me watching our boy Travis show up for our girl Taylor … 2023 THE YEAR OF RUNNING OFFSTAGE AND KISSING OUR MEN LETS GOOO."
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"I would love to invite them [to my annual Halloween party]," Heidi Klum told DailyMail.com at the finale of her show "America's Got Talent" in late September. "If they would just show up, I'm sure no one at the door will turn them away."
The Halloween question came amid DailyMail.com's claim it had learned Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were discussing plans to spend Halloween together and to wear a couple's costume — according to the outlet's source, they've joked about dressing up as Barbie and Ken.
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"Can all of you negative nellies just stop? Stop!" actress Valerie Bertinelli said on TikTok in a post called "Taylor + Travis."
"Let the rest of us enjoy watching two successful, funny, talented, incredibly gorgeous human beings — let us enjoy watching them fall in love, OK?" she continued, adding, "And don't take sneaky pictures and sell them, be respectful. Let the rest of us respectfully enjoy this love story that's playing out in front of us, OK? Thank you. Have a good day."
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On Sept. 27, Travis Kelce's brother, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, weighed in on his brother's romance with Taylor Swift on Audacy's SportsRadio 94 WIP-FM. "It was fun watching the whole world take it in, to be honest with you," Jason said after Taylor went to Travis's game in Kansas City on Sept. 24. "But yeah, I'm more focused on talking to Trav and Mom after the game and seeing how everything went, and hopefully, everything went smoothly for [Taylor]."
Jason said he "saw videos of the brigade that the Chiefs had to put outside the suite that she was in — you just hope that somebody of her level and stature can enjoy the game. And it certainly, I mean, seemed like she was enjoying it from all accounts and everybody I talked to, so you're kind of just hoping that she had a good time, and you're asking questions about her to your mom and whatnot."
Jason diplomatically sidestepped a few questions, including one asking what base he thinks Travis and Taylor got to, instead just saying, "with this one, it definitely seems like he is going above and beyond to be a gentleman."
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"I set them up," Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid joked of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift during an interview following the Chiefs-Chicago Bears game on Sept. 24.
Travis was tickled by his coach's claim, later saying on the "New Heights" podcast he hosts with brother Jason Kelce, "And then you got Coach Reid telling everybody he's cupid and he's been manifesting this the whole time. Who knows? He might've been in the background the whole time, man. Shoutout to Coach Reid!"
"Coach Reid playing matchmaker?" Jason asked. Responded Travis: "Who knew cupid was so big?"
Travis said he knew that Reid "had met the Swift family before" when he was coaching the Philadelphia Eagles at some point between 1999 and 2012. Taylor, who grew up in Pennsylvania before later moving to Nashville, is believed to be an Eagles fan — at least she was before a certain someone got her interested in the Chiefs.
During a Nov. 13 press conference, a reporter asked Coach Reid about the media attention that's come from the relationship. "I'm just glad he's found somebody he likes and she's found somebody she likes. That's a good thing," he said.
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Even New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick weighed in on a Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift romance, telling Boston radio station WEEI in late September, "Travis Kelce has had a lot of big catches in his career. This would be the biggest."
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Jessie James Decker — who's married to former NFL player Eric Decker — told TalkShopLive she's a fan of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's romance. "I love it. It totally makes sense. She should have dated an athlete a long time ago. It worked for me. I love it."
