Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Michael Owens/Getty ImagesA former Kansas City Chiefs cheerleader provides details on where Taylor Swift meet Travis Kelce after his matches.
Stefanie Heuvelswho cheered on the Chiefs until 2023, shared a recent TikTok – now circulating online just months after she posted the clip – that Swift, after the game, “would always meet Travis through [his] locker room” at Arrowhead Stadium.
“All those pictures of her match day outfits walking down [the] The red tunnels at Arrowhead are right next to the players’ locker room, which is right next to the Chiefs’ Cheerleader locker room, and there were so many close encounters,” Hills said, recalling how she and her fellow cheerleaders waited for “a really long time” outside the dressing rooms to get a photo with Swift.
When Hills first heard that Swift and Kelce, both 35, were a couple, she couldn’t believe it.
Taylor Swift has loved being the girl in the stands amid her blossoming romance with Travis Kelce. Swift made her first appearance at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023, where she defeated the Chicago Bears from the Kelce family’s private suite. After cheering along with the tight end’s mother, Donna Kelce, she and Travis […]
“My first thoughts were, ‘There’s no way Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce. This must be a publicity stunt,” she recalled in her September 2024 video. “We’re talking about the same Travis Kelce who had his own dating show just under a decade ago where he dated one woman from every state in the United States . … You can see why I was a little confused.”
When Fast attended her first Chiefs game in September 2023, Hills said she “almost pooped” herself amid the excitement, adding, “And I’m not even a crazy Swiftie.”
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At the time, “we were doing my choreography in the end zone and I looked up, and no joke, she was on the screen and she was clapping,” Hills recalled. “And I thought, ‘She just saw our team dancing and is clapping now and she liked my choreography.’ If she didn’t like it, she wouldn’t have clapped.”
Hills’ only complaints: that the pop star’s presence drove up game-day ticket prices, and that the cameras capturing live footage consistently panned to Swift instead of the cheerleaders and fans.
Taylor Swift is a proud member of Chiefs Kingdom in support of boyfriend Travis Kelce. “Football is great, as it turns out,” Swift, who started dating the Kansas City Chiefs in the summer of 2023, told TIME the following December. “I’ve been missing something my whole life.” Swift went to her first Chiefs game in September […]
“Which is out of her control and I’m sure she would prefer if they didn’t show her 24 hours a day,” Hills said. “Personally, when I’m drinking at a Chiefs game, I’m thinking: Don’t point a camera at me. That would really irritate me.”
She added, “Because Chiefs games are getting rowdy.”
Swift has been cheering on her friend – from the VIP section of his team – for almost a year and a half. On Saturday, January 18, she showed up at Arrowhead wearing a head-to-toe Chanel dress and arrived next to her parents, Scott And Andreaand younger brother, Austin. The rest of the Swift family wore Chiefs brand gear as they sat with Kelce’s family and basketball phenom Caitlin Clark in the box.
That’s where Swift burst in a raucous cheer when Kelce scored a touchdown during the Chiefs’ playoff game. After beating the Houston Texans, Kelce was asked by a reporter if his remarkable performance on the field had made him feel ten years younger.
“Twenty-two, honey,” Kelce replied, referring to Swift’s Red song of the same name.