Travis Kelce (left) and Taylor Swift pose after the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Jan. 26, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: AP
Taylor Swift has a lot to be happy about – including a ring she says she could watch "like it's a TV."
The Bejeweled pop star hit The Graham Norton Show Friday (Oct 3) to promote her new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, and the host swiftly congratulated her on the "new bit of finger jewellery."
"He really crushed it when it came to surprising me," Swift said of fiance Travis Kelce's marriage proposal. "He went all out. 10 out of 10."
The Norton Show appearance marks the first time the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has addressed this new chapter of her love story with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end on TV.
In August, the high-profile couple announced they were engaged with a joint Instagram post that looked straight out of an enchanted garden.
According to Swift, the viral photos were not staged. While the couple were recording an episode of Kelce's podcast, New Heights, the three-time Super Bowl champion was having his backyard transformed for the romantic occasion.
(Kelce's father, Ed, let it slip shortly after the announcement that the proposal had happened at Travis' home in Lee's Summit, Missouri.) Among the added greenery were a few strategically placed hedges where Swift's tour photographer could capture the proposal unnoticed.
"It's really fun that we actually have the exact moment" when he proposed, Swift said.
Television is not the only place where Swift has been unable to stop gushing about her fiance.
Fans have been meticulously dissecting the lyrics on all of the tracks on Swift's latest album and there are plenty of nods to Kelce. The most explicit, according to Swifties and Swiftologists, is Wood, which is being described as her horniest and most openly sexual song to date.
LA Times pop music critic Mikael Wood describes the song as "a kind of kiddie-disco number that... exults in the erotic thrill of a guy brandishing 'new heights of manhood,'" pointing out the reference to Kelce's podcast.
Among the other lyrics that are causing a frenzy among fans include references to a "Redwood tree," how "his love was thе key that opened (her) thighs" and "a hard rock (being) on the way."
Clearly, Swift is just as giddy about her upcoming nuptials as Kelce. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service
