As Taylor Swift seemingly confirms that she and Travis Kelce are in a relationship, the tight end’s father is sharing his opinions about the singer.
Swift has attended four Kansas City Chiefs games, where she’s spent time with the football player’s mom, Donna, as they’ve celebrated Kelce’s touchdown passes, as well as his father, Ed, when the Chiefs faced off against the Denver Broncos on 12 October.
According to an interview with People, Ed had nothing bad to say about Swift, as he called her “a very, very sweet, very charming, down-to-earth young woman”. The father also went on to praise the Grammy winner’s brain. “She’s very smart,” he said. “I mean, very. That comes through right away.”
As the two first started talking in the Arrowhead Stadium suite, he explained that he assumed Swift would be a “genuine person” and he ended up being proven right. “I’ll tell you something very special that I noticed about Taylor the first time I met her,” he told the outlet.
“We’re sitting in the suite, she gets up and in the front room, she gets up to go get a drink or something and she starts picking up empty bottles, cans, plates that are scattered around. Because in the suites everybody gets stuff and you empty it down wherever you can.”
He continued: “And I’m just thinking, I don’t think she got the diva memo. She didn’t get the spoiled musician. She doesn’t know how to pull that off. And that really, to me, said a whole lot.”
In a recent episode of their podcast, New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, Kelce and his brother Jason, 35, spoke lightheartedly about their father mingling with the vocalist.
“Yeah, Taylor talking to Dad. You know Dad, like I know Dad,” Kelce said on the 18 October episode, before he was immediately interrupted by his older brother’s interjection about their father.
“He shouldn’t be talking to Taylor Swift,” Jason proclaimed, as Kelce responded: “This is a terrifying conversation. I felt terrible for Taylor for being in this.”
The two brothers laughed as they quipped about their dad. But when their humour settled, the Chiefs star athlete took the opportunity to compliment the male role model in his life.
“We can’t keep kicking Dad just because we enjoy doing it, man. Our dad is the best f***ing dad in the world,” he confessed. “He is a great converser. It’s where Jason gets his storytelling, and all of his charisma. We’re saying this just because we like to rag on the big guy.”
Donna has also opened up about the “Karma” singer and what they’ve talked about while sitting next to each other in the same suite. In an interview on the Today show, she said whenever the cameras zoomed in on them during the games they were only talking about commercial breaks.
Donna also would not confirm or deny whether the two were actually in a relationship. “It’s fairly new, so I don’t like to talk about it,” the Kelce matriarch said.
“It’s just one of those things where, you know, obviously everybody saw me. I was in the boxes with her and it’s just another thing that’s amped up my life.”
When asked if they were in a relationship, she replied: “I honestly can’t tell you. It’s just too new.”
