Taylor Swift Details 'Man Tantrum' That Began Her Relationship with Travis Kelce and His 'Wild, Romantic' Gesture
NEW HEIGHTS PODCAST Taylor Swift made her debut on boyfriend Travis Kelce'sNew Heightspodcast on Aug. 13 During the appearance, Swift joked about Travis throwing a "man tantrum" over not meeting her while she was performing on her Eras Tour in Kansas City — and how it ended up sparking their romance Kelce went on to declare his interest in dating Swift on his podcast, which she called a "wild, romantic gesture" Taylor Swiftis revealing how her boyfriendTravis Kelce's "man tantrum" ended up sparking their romance. Making her debut on Travis and his brotherJason Kelce'sNew Heightspodcast on Wednesday, Aug. 13, Swift, 35, detailed Travis' attempts to woo her after he tried to meet her during her Eras Tour performance at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City in July 2023. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, also 35, wanted togive Swift a friendship bracelet with his numberon it, but after failing to meet her he was left "disappointed" and instead declared his interest in her onNew Heightsthat same month. Opening up about the gesture, Swift jokes that Travis "threw a man tantrum" and that she has actually "never seen" the original friendship bracelet he was meant to give her. "This dude didn't get a meet and greet and he's making it everyone's problem, that's what I thought at first," the 14-time Grammy winner said, adding that she found it "so funny." Travis Kelce/Instagram "I was butt hurt," Travis shared of not meeting Swift. Swift went on to say that Kelce declaring his interest in dating her on his podcast was "so wild." "It was such a wild, romantic gesture to just be like, 'I wanna date you,' " Swift shared. "That's what it does when you're on the stage and you perform in Arrowhead. That's what it did to me," Travis added. "You come to Arrowhead, I get to meet you. That's the perk of playing for the Chiefs." Gotham/GC Swift then shared further details about how Travis planned to meet her during her concert. "You realize he didn't even reach out to our management. I was like, when this podcast came out, I was like, 'Did he ever reach out to be, like, in the tents, or did we know he was in the building?' He came with Pat [Patrick Mahomes], and he thought that because he knows the elevator lady that he could talk to her about just getting down to my dressing room." "Yeah … And I got denied," Travis noted. "The elevator was suspended." "That's how it works in 1973," Swift joked. In a seriously sweet moment on the podcast, Swift went on tocompare his gesture to a teen romance movie, saying it "felt more like I was in an '80s John Hughes movie, and he was standing outside of my window with a boombox saying, 'I want to date you! Do you want to go on a date with me? I made you a friendship bracelet! Do you want to date me?" she said, referencing the movieSay Anything. https://people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/kz7l4cuf Travis said he wanted Swift to "just meet me once, just give me a chance." "I was like, 'If this guy's not crazy, this is sort of what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager,' " Swift explained, with Travis joking that he was listening to the Eras Tour setlist and thinking, "'I know exactly what she wants me to do'... I'm the luckiest man in the world." "It was wild, but it worked. I'm glad it worked," Swift added. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. John Shearer/TAS23/Getty At the beginning of the podcast, co-host Jason, 37, asked Swift — who chose the show to announce the release of her 12th studio album,The Life of a Showgirl— why she has decided to come on New Heights, with the pop superstar joking that it has "done a lot for me." "I owe a lot to this podcast," she said. "This podcast got me a boyfriend, ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago." "Worked pretty good," Jason added. Read the original article onPeople
Taylor Swift Details 'Man Tantrum' That Began Her Relationship with Travis Kelce and His 'Wild, Romantic' Gesture NEW HEIGHT...
