Travis Kelce Told The WSJ That He "Has Never Been A Man Of Words," But "Seeing How Smart Taylor Is Has Been Fucking Mind Blowing"
Travis Kelce has made it to the cover of the Wall Street Journal, complete with a full length feature about his life, his job and of course - Taylor Swift. The upbringing/family stuff is endearing so definitely give that a read, but here's what we all REALLY care about; more details about when, and how he met Taylor:
“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.” He wasn’t aware at the time, however; the revelation only came later, after he looked down at his phone and got the shock of a lifetime. “She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.”
He lets slip that some of his early helpers were part of the Swift family tree. “She’ll probably hate me for saying this, but…when she came to Arrowhead, they gave her the big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins were taking pictures…in front of my locker.”
Understandably, he’s not handing out details about the first date, though he will say that he managed to not be nervous. “When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there.”
If anyone was nervous, he adds, it was his core group. “Everybody around me telling me: Don’t f— this up! And me sitting here saying: Yeah—got it.”
I feel like this isn't a whole lot of new news, we've heard about "someone playing cupid" before but I am interested to hear that Taylor's cousins were fans of Travis and seemingly encouraged her to reach out. It's more clear to us now that their first real "date" was in NYC and AFTER Travis went to her concert, so our late July/early August timeline matches up. Lets hear more:
As those first heady days unfolded, as news bulletins and cutaways showed Swift cheering Kelce on from his suite, Kelce was uncharacteristically guarded with the media. “That was the biggest thing to me: make sure I don’t say anything that would push Taylor away.”
Likewise, his mother. Donna Kelce still berates herself for how she handled a question about Taylor on the Today show. Trying not to sound too enthusiastic, she came off underwhelmed. Kelce, not wanting his mom to feel bad, immediately phoned her and assured her that she did a super job—adding that her green eyeglasses looked great.
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I'm definitely guilty of being like "WTF Donna?" after that Today show interview, but I guess when you think about it, it's hard to know what to say and not to say when it comes to your son dating the most famous woman in the world. It's nice to hear that Travis actually uses his brain where Taylor is concerned, if anything to protect himself and his family from the psychos like me, who overanalyze everything. She's come around on the spectacle of it all:
These days, however, with the relationship progressing, Donna feels more at liberty. “I can tell you this,” she says, beaming. “He’s happier than I’ve seen him in a long time…. God bless him, he shot for the stars!”
Travis continues his praise throughout the rest of the article, being the reliable golden retriever that he is. A few of my favorite quotes:
“‘Blank Space’ was one I wanted to hear live for sure. I could make a bad guy good for the weekend. That’s a helluva line!”
What a miracle, he says, the way Swift can turn life into poetry. “I’ve never been a man of words. Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been f—ing mind-blowing. I’m learning every day.”
“Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them…. I’ve never dealt with it,” Kelce says. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it…. The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.”
And of course his family and friends had endless praise for him, as well. (In the backhanded way only your family could)
Others say the key to Travis is simpler than that. He’s basically still the kid who filled his Dad’s shampoo bottle with hand cream. “He just lives his life with so much joy,” Jason says. “He’s always kind of surrounding himself with people who are funny, who have a zest for life; it’s one of the things that defines him.”
The least surprising thing of all time? Travis being a huge Chris Farley fan, impressions and all:
Indeed, Kelce has warned Swift that she’s going to have to reckon with this part of his personality. Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell—they will all be a part of the relationship. “I told Taylor that I have that world, I’ve got to introduce it to her. I let her know: This is my jam right here.” (Kelce does an uncanny imitation of Farley’s dorky baritone, and the ringtone on his phone is Farley primal screaming: For the love of GOD!)
I definitely suggest giving the LONGGGGG article some time, but I think I stand by my original thoughts of "none of this is that new." Anyone who reads every tweet or listens to every New Heights clip, won't be that shocked by anything writtten here. Travis knows he's got a good thing going right now, and he's going to do everything he can to keep it right! Hats off to the WSJ for not asking, or at least not including, speculation on engagement/kids/marriage blah blah blah. Every other article about these two has an element of that and I think it's so rude and uncomfortable for people to ask at all, let alone this early on. We're all along for the ride, and we're lucky to be!