Intro for September 11, 2025

Dear Gossips, 

I saw a story this morning at Us Weekly about how Kylie Kelce had to “explain” why she doesn’t talk about Taylor Swift and her brother-in-law Travis Kelce on her podcast. Apparently there have been listeners asking about her not mentioning the TNT engagement, and why she didn’t publicly congratulate them. 

On the latest episode of Not Gonna Lie, Kylie told her fans that: 

“People do not realize that you at home, you have your family, and in your family, you might have a brother-in-law and they might be dating someone. You might have a soon-to-be sister-in-law. But you have a relationship personally with them that no one else is involved in, because it’s your relationship. I don’t need to come out here and make statements when I already talk to them. You see what I’m saying? … I don’t need you to take my comments and try and dissect it.”

The fact that she even had to say this is such an eyeroll for me. To be clear, I’m not eyerolling Kylie, she’s great. I’m eyerolling the pressure that was put on her to address it, that there were people who actually needed her to “publicly congratulate” Taylor and Travis. Who would the “public congratulations” really be for? Would it be for TNT? Or would it be for the public? Do congratulations only count when they’re made public? Why does the public have a say in this anyway?! 

It's been pretty obvious to everyone – and you don’t even have to be paying that close attention – that Taylor and the Kelces are close. And, besides, Kylie Kelce isn’t about drama, those who listen to her pod would know this. Of course she would have known before everyone else, of course there would have been private moments between the family members. Any public congratulations would have been a performance, for the benefit of the public. In other words, and ironically, those who are demanding that kind of performance from Kylie are asking her to put on a show. Why do you want your girl to be fake?! 

Celebrity expectations are so confusing. If you don’t publicly share your feelings, your everything, really, then no one believes that you have feelings, or they assign feelings to you that you might not have even had. But if you do share your feelings, too much, then the accusation is that it’s all for PR or you’re clout-chasing. I’m not in the business of sympathising with celebrities, but this is an example of how for them, more and more, it’s getting impossible. 

Yours in gossip, 

Lainey