A resurfaced video of Travis Kelce has given new meaning to the idea of Mr. Perfectly Fine.
Back in 2017, the Kansas City Chiefs standout took a trip to a hammam spa, filming the entire shirtless experience for ESPN’s YouTube channel. And the clip, now circulating on X (formerly Twitter) has fans understanding why Taylor Swift thinks he’s such a catch.
As one fan wrote of the 74-second video, which features the 34-year-old emerge from his post rub-down steam shower with just a towel around his waist, “Taylor i get it.”
Echoed another, “I’m not ashamed to say I bookmarked this.”
After acknowledging that he’d get some ribbing from his teammates (“I’m pretty sure I’ll hear it”), the University of Cincinnati alum nonetheless said, “I suggest this for everybody. I might have to get my mom one of these.”
And, of course, in addition to being able to take care of the women in his life, the two-time Super Bowl champion knows how to play, play, play, play, play.
In between dates for her wildly successful Eras Tour, 12-time Grammy winner Swift has been happily taking on the role of cheer captain.
“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,” the 34-year-old explained in her TIME Person of the Year cover story of their public support for each other. “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.”
So, yeah, occasionally NFL viewers are going to catch a glimpse of the musician on the bleachers.
“There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once,” she told the mag. “I’m just there to support Travis. I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
Besides, while the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, Kelce is very much enchanted.
“They showed Taylor at the game, and you don’t see an entire home team fanbase go insane for somebody wearing the opposite team’s colors,” he shared on the Dec. 20 episode of his New Heights podcast, discussing Swift turning up in Massachusetts to see the Chiefs defeat the New England Patriots. “It just shows you how amazing that girl is, they went absolutely insane when they showed Taylor on the screen.”
Though he cheekily acknowledged, “There might have been a few Brads and Chads that were booing,” the rest of the stadium was struggling to calm down: “Everybody was f–king screaming their tail off for her.”
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Elsa/Getty Images)No. 4: She Isn’t In Hiding
Since her breakup with Joe, Taylor has been seen in public much more frequently, including outings with friends in New York City and jubilant appearances at award shows, like the 2023 MTV VMAs.
But her most talked-about appearance? Sitting in Travis’ suite at the Kansas City Chief’s Sept. 24 home game against the Chicago Bears.
Rather than shy away from the attention, Taylor cheered, screamed “Let’s f–king go!” when Travis scored a touchdown. Like the public, even Travis admitted he was caught off-guard by Taylor accepting his invite.
“Shoutout to Taylor for pulling up, that was pretty ballsy,” Travis said during the Sept. 27 episode of the New Heights podcast. “I just thought it was awesome how everyone in the suite had nothing but great things to say about her, the friends and family.”
“She looked amazing,” he added. ” It was definitely a game I will remember, that’s for damn sure.”
Since then, Taylor and Travis have been photographed hand-in-hand on dates in New York City and have made multiple visits to a Christmas bar in Kansas City, where they were not shy about showing PDA.
And, after revealing to TIME that she retreated from the spotlight after Kim Kardashian‘s infamous leaked phone call in 2016, Taylor is going out tonight…and every night, if she wants to, thank you very much.
“Life is short,” she said. “Have adventures. Me locking myself away in my house for a lot of years—I’ll never get that time back. I’m more trusting now than I was six years ago.”
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