Does Travis Kelce have a new biggest fan? Fans of Taylor Swift haven't been in love with this ex-girlfriend showing up at Travis' games, and now she has something to say about the hate.
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00:00Does Travis Kelce have a new biggest fan? Fans of Taylor Swift haven't been in love
00:05with his ex-girlfriend showing up at Travis' games, and now she has something to say about
00:09the hate. It's been a year since Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift hard-launched their relationship,
00:14but some Swifties haven't totally moved on from the NFL player's past romantic history.
00:19Yes, there was life before Swellsee, including Kelce's relationship with Kayla Nicole.
00:24Do you have a type?
00:25Ew, yeah.
00:26And I'm trying to get away from it. I'm trying to run the other way.
00:30That past romance was recently thrust into the spotlight after it was reported that Swift
00:34wouldn't be attending the Kansas City Chiefs' then-upcoming game against the Los Angeles
00:38Chargers. The second game in a row, Swift would be missing. But who was attending the game in LA?
00:43That's right, Nicole. One person took to Ex to sum up the situation, writing,
00:48"[Kayla Nicole will be attending the game tomorrow,
00:50but Taylor Swift won't. Swifties on Reddit going crazy because they can't find a route that fit
00:55their narrative. No, she wasn't in Kansas City. No, she isn't going to the game. Yes, they broke
01:00up." It looks like mentioning both Nicole and Swellsee breakup rumors in the same sentence was
01:05an open invitation for Swifties to drag Nicole into the mud, because the response was indeed
01:10Swift. One person replied with a photo of Kelce's ex-girlfriend and wrote,
01:14"'You think he'd really want to go back to waking up next to this wreck of a face?'
01:18When an ex-user called the person out, they replied with a bontage of what appeared to be
01:22screenshots from an Instagram video where Nicole wasn't wearing makeup and sarcastically wrote,
01:26quote, "'Very pretty.'" Well, that's all it took for Nicole to enter the fray and
01:30fire back with a pointed message. Retweeting the post with the makeup-free pictures,
01:34Nicole clapped back with,
01:36"'You will never make me hate me. Hang it up, bookie!'
01:39This isn't the first time Nicole had to address haters. When Kelce was first linked to Swift,
01:44fans naturally nosed around his past love life, and Nicole unexpectedly found herself
01:48in the crosshairs. During a panel at Advertising Week in New York City in 2023,
01:53Nicole described the storm of hate she'd started getting out of nowhere
01:57simply because she'd dated Kelce in the past. She explained,
02:00"'This was just kind of like a media storm, if you will, and my name was being brought
02:04in it every day. My comments, my DMs were flooded by it and the narrative.
02:08I had no control over it at this point.'"
02:10In response to all the negative attention, Nicole posted an Instagram video encouraging
02:14women to believe in themselves despite what anyone says.
02:17"'They'll say you're too much, too provocative, too boisterous, too outspoken,
02:22and in the same breath tell you that you're not enough.'"
02:25Nicole went on to say that you don't have to feel alone and that there is help available.
02:29Explaining why she decided to expand the scope of her message beyond the trolling
02:33specifically directed at her, Nicole said,
02:35"'I have a lot of eyes on me, but I feel like it's not a singular experience.
02:39So I wanted to really encourage myself, but any other woman that might feel the same way.'"
02:44Frankly, it's pretty wild that so much drama can stem from who's deciding to date who at
02:48any given time. But Nicole hadn't seen the end of the backlash. On April 18th,
02:522024, Nicole posted on X,
02:55"'There's just no way I can fully digest all these new albums. I'm still on Cowboy Carter.'"
03:00Seems innocent enough, right? Well, considering it was posted a day before the release of the
03:04Tortured Poets Department, some fans took it as intentional shade towards Swift's newest album.
03:08One person replied,
03:10"'No one cares what you think about Taylor. Consider trying to find relevance elsewhere.'"
03:14Another person said,
03:15"'Many of us do immature things when we're hurt,
03:17but we can't play the victim when we get exactly what we should have expected.
03:20Must be hard, but also, it's time to move on.'"
03:23All the replies prompted Nicole to post hours later,
03:26"'I'm unproblematic. Mind my business. Never respond to the constant vitriol.
03:30Solid as they come and don't expect a pat on the back for it either.
03:33Just know everyone has a breaking point and would love for y'all,
03:36because you know exactly who you are, to leave me alone.'"
03:39Clearly, based on her history of dismissing naysayers,
03:41Nicole's latest fiery response is right on brand.