“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Taylor Swift posted on Instagram Tuesday along with photos of NFL star Travis Kelce proposing to her.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end and aspiring actor has made things a official with the megastar after dating for almost two years.
The announcement revealed the ring Kelce used to lock in the singer-songwriter—a vintage-inspired ring that Page Six reports was designed by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift told Time magazine in 2023. “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date,” she also explained.
Kelce, who was thrust into the spotlight when the relationship became public in September 2023, has since embraced his newfound fame, adding TV host and actor to his resume alongside the NFL. The pairing has been a financial boon for the organization, which has seen more engagement from new fans who watch the games in the hopes of catching a glimpse of Swift cheering on her beau from the sidelines.
CBS News reporter @olivialarinaldi discovers Taylor Swift is engaged to Travis Kelce moments before going on live TV. “I feel like Paul Revere right now.” https://t.co/SsAqe2q4US pic.twitter.com/0fS6lCqEIR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 26, 2025
The footballer’s New Heights podcast with brother Jason Kelce also became a pop culture fixture after the pair began dating publicly. Swift’s first-ever appearance on the show this month broke a Guinness World Record for most live viewers on YouTube with 1.3 million concurrent watchers. She used that appearance to announce that her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, will be released on Oct. 3.
But the relationship has also come with intense scrutiny, as rumors swirled last year that the couple was in a “showmance” agreement for mutually beneficial PR coverage—something Kelce forcefully shut down.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement post is inspiring a new trend.
The couple, who announced their engagement on Tuesday (August 26) with a joint Instagram post of the couple in a lush garden setting, overflowing with flowers in pink, white, and peach.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” read the caption on the joint post.
Not long after sharing the news of their engagement, which saw reactions from the likes of Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter, the caption began to take on a life of its own on social media.
Fans on X are now pairing the line with photos of pairings like Joyce Byers and Jim Hopper from Stranger Things, Sue Sylvester and Will Schuester from Glee, and Rebecca Welton and Ted Lasso from Ted Lasso.
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Meanwhile, TMZ reports that Kelce likely proposed at his own estate in a Kansas City suburb, noting that the couple’s engagement photos strongly resemble his backyard.
With Kelce in the middle of Chiefs training camp and sporting a fresh haircut in the photos, the outlet guessed that he wouldn’t have had time for a more elaborate setup far away from Kansas City. Proposing at his house also gave the couple the chance to keep the moment private and allow them to control when and how their engagement was revealed.
Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl, will be released on October 3.