Travis Kelce REVEALS Details on How His & Taylor Swift’s Romance Began _ E! News

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00:00 Travis Kelsey revealed how this romance began with Taylor Swift.

00:03 In an interview with Wall Street Journal magazine, the football player opens up about

00:08 everything from his journey to the NFL to his relationship with the A-list singer.

00:12 By now, we've heard the story the Kansas City Chiefs star attended the singer's heiress tour

00:18 at Arrowhead Stadium back in July and later recounted his failed attempt to meet her backstage

00:24 on his podcast with brother Jason.

00:26 In the new interview, Travis reveals shortly after the podcast aired,

00:30 he was contacted by Tame Taylor, telling Wall Street Journal magazine,

00:34 quote, "There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was in her corner.

00:39 I had somebody playing puking."

00:41 He then adds that he got the surprise of a lifetime when the Grammy Award winner reached

00:46 out to him, explaining, "She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough

00:51 to get her to reach out."

00:53 The tight end continues, suggesting that Taylor's family may have helped play matchmaker, sharing,

00:59 "She'll probably hate me for saying this, but when she came to Arrowhead, they gave her the

01:04 big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins were taking pictures in front

01:08 of my locker."

01:10 As for the first date, Kelsey keeps those details to himself, but tells the interviewer,

01:15 "When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have

01:19 a nice dinner and like a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there."

01:24 Of course, his inner circle is happy for him to be dating the superstar, but Donna Kelsey,

01:30 Travis' mother, saying, "I can tell you this, he's happier than I've seen him in a long time.

01:36 God bless him, he shot for the stars."

01:38 And friends describing them as, quote, "two peas in a pod."

01:43 Travis, who goes on to describe Taylor as hilarious and a genius, later says their love

01:49 of family and work is what makes them a great match.

01:52 "Everybody knows I'm a family guy.

01:54 Her team is her family.

01:56 Her family does a lot of stuff in terms of the tour, so I think she has a lot of those

02:01 values as well, which is right up my alley."

02:04 The NFL star ends with, quote, "I've never been a man of words.

02:08 Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been mind-blowing.

02:13 I'm learning every day."

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