Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce engagement

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are formally engaged.

The pop star and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish shared the joyous information in a joint Instagram post Tuesday, with Swift writing within the caption, “Your English trainer and your health club trainer are getting married.”

The submit included a number of photographs from the couple’s engagement, together with a snap of Kelce down on one knee. Within the photographs, the 2 are seen standing in a backyard, surrounded by flowers, with Swift sporting a striped summer season costume and Kelce in a darkish blue collared shirt and white shorts. The submit additionally included a photograph of Swift’s ring, which ABC News confirmed is an old-mine good lower diamond designed by Kelce and Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Nice Jewellery in New York Metropolis.

The engagement comes simply weeks after Swift made her debut on Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, which he co-hosts along with his brother, retired NFL star Jason Kelce. Swift introduced her twelfth studio album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” through the podcast episode and spoke about the couple’s relationship.

“He is only a vibe booster in everybody’s life that he is in,” Swift stated of her now-fiance through the episode. “He is like a human exclamation level.”

Swift and Kelce have been relationship since 2023.

Hypothesis round their relationship arose in September of 2023 when Swift attended her first Kansas Metropolis soccer recreation and was noticed alongside Kelce’s mother, Donna Kelce.

Her look at that recreation got here after Kelce stated on his podcast in July 2023 that he tried to fulfill Swift after certainly one of her Eras Tour reveals at Arrowhead Stadium that summer season to provide her a friendship bracelet along with his quantity on it however was unsuccessful.

Kelce confirmed their relationship in November 2023 throughout an interview with WSJ. Journal. “Clearly I’ve by no means dated anybody with that form of aura about them…. I’ve by no means handled it,” he stated.

He added, “However on the similar time, I am not working away from any of it…. The scrutiny she will get, how a lot she has a magnifying glass on her, each single day, paparazzi outdoors her home, outdoors each restaurant she goes to, after each flight she will get off, and she or he’s simply residing, having fun with life. When she acts like that I higher not be the one appearing all unusual.”

Kelce additionally shared how Swift has modified his life. “Being round her, seeing how sensible Taylor is, has been f—— mind-blowing,” he stated on the time. “I am studying daily.”

Swift shared more about how their relationship happened in her December 2023 TIME Individual of the Yr interview. “This all began when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I assumed was metallic as hell,” she instructed the outlet on the time.

“We began hanging out proper after that,” she added. “So we really had a major period of time that nobody knew, which I am grateful for, as a result of we bought to get to know one another.”

The singer additionally instructed TIME that she and Kelce have been “displaying up for one another” by attending one another’s reveals and video games — this after he attended certainly one of her Eras Tour concert events in the summertime and she or he returned the favor by attending a Chiefs recreation. “We’re simply pleased with one another,” she added.

Since then, Swift has cheered Kelce on at numerous Chiefs video games, each Super Bowl LVIII and Tremendous Bowl LIX, and he was seen attending many Eras Tour stops, even joining her onstage at her cease in London in June 2024.

Take a look at a full timeline wanting again at their relationship here.