What Else Travis Kelce: Golf and Party It was a full schedule for Travis Kelce on Wednesday. He played in the pro-am at the WM Phoenix Open – and a quick aside here: this tournament is hilariously chaotic, one of the few tournaments if not the only stop on the PGA Tour where it’s less golf vibes By Lainey • Feb 05, 2026 04:45 pm
Sports Taylor plus two in the suite Taylor Swift was back in the suite at Arrowhead yesterday for the Kansas City game against Houston. My algorithm has been different since I’ve been in Brazil – it’s not serving me the usual, which means I was late on this news about Taylor and what actually showed up By Lainey • Dec 08, 2025 10:15 am
Taylor Swift Intro for November 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, A new teaser for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour docuseries was released yesterday, this time targeted for a gossip audience. Because the focus of this preview was TNT. Which actually makes sense on multiple levels. To drive interest, certainly. That’s obvious. But there’s also narrative By Lainey • Nov 27, 2025 09:29 am
Music Intro for October 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift stepped out in New York last night for dinner with Jerrod Carmichael in a very Taylor outfit: black turtleneck, kilt, cognac boots, Dior bag. We’ve seen her in variations of this over the years, it’s a uniform that works. Taylor of course continues to By Lainey • Oct 08, 2025 10:47 am
Taylor Swift 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 By Lainey • Sep 11, 2025 09:22 am
Sports Travis Kelce: Engaged and Relaxed Kansas City and Los Angeles are playing the NFL opener in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday and Travis Kelce was swarmed by fans upon arrival. Pretty sure this isn’t the kind of football that Brazilians mob people over, lol. Let’s not pretend that this reaction is for an By Lainey • Sep 04, 2025 02:52 pm
Weddings TNT: The Spokesperson and the Sponcon Travis Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, wasted no time yesterday after Taylor and Travis’s joint announcement on Instagram confirming their engagement. Ed did an interview with a local Cleveland news station providing answers to some of the pressing questions about the proposal. Cleveland of course is the Kelces’ hometown. By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 10:36 am
Weddings Intro for August 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, A member of our Substack community, The Squawk, dropped a link in the daily chat yesterday to an article at The Guardian about how everyone from brands to politicians yesterday leveraged Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement to promote themselves or their products. During what was supposed By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 09:05 am
Weddings A Very TNT Engagement Everyone knows this by now because I saw the news on Instagram literally five minutes after she posted and when I checked by eight minutes later (haha that adds up to 13) there were 1.3 million likes. At this rate she might break an Instagram record. It’s Taylor By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 01:44 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 19, 2025 Dear Gossips, There were some interesting numbers in the Puck newsletter on Monday for someone who loves numbers and her fans: Taylor Swift. This is related to her appearance on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, last week. And the ratings are in. Per Puck: “The NFL brothers’ By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 09:24 am
Music A TNT Marathon There was so much anticipation going into the latest episode of the New Heights podcast featuring, of course, Taylor Swift. And my curiosity yesterday about the timing of it was answered because it ended up kinda being like a livestream, albeit a pre-taped one. Which totally tracks with how Taylor By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 12:52 pm
Sports Taylor Swift’s favourite podcast The most important event on the Swiftie calendar this week is the new episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast which comes out at 7pm ET tonight (Wednesday). I don’t listen to this show regularly but I do know that I typically see clips from it By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 11:41 am
Music TNT Tuesday Those clues yesterday did actually lead to something for Taylor Swift. But it turns out, August 12 isn’t just about her. Not only did she confirm that she’s releasing her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Travis Kelce’s podcast, he covers the September issue of By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 12:28 pm
Music Taylor Swift: What’s Orange? The Taylor Swift metaverse is not a quiet space. Even when Taylor’s silent, her fans are reading into whatever invisible signals they perceive that she’s sending out into the universe. And when she does post, or step out wearing a certain shoe or jacket, Swifties obsessively analyse whether By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 03:07 pm
Sports Taylor Swift: The Chancellor’s Girlfriend I don’t know what a Tight End University is, and for our purposes here, just the basics will do: an event where football people do football things founded by football players, the most gossip-notable being Travis Kelce. The reason we are talking about Tight End University is because Taylor By Lainey • Jun 25, 2025 11:06 am
Sports Taylor Swift does that hockey For those who don’t understand the reference, “do that hockey” is a line from one of Chance the Rapper’s best sketches on Saturday Night Live in which he plays “Laszlo Holmes”, an NYC sports reporter who usually does the Knicks games but has to fill in when the By Lainey • Jun 13, 2025 11:14 am