Even the insiders close to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting tired of having to constantly debunk engagement rumors. (They’ve been doing so since December.)
ESPN commentator Troy Aikman set off the latest batch this morning. Aikman had mistakingly called Swift “the Missus” during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Monday night game against the New Orleans Saints. On today’s episode of his podcast, Pardon My Take, he claimed someone told him the Chiefs tight end and the pop star “might actually be engaged. So I might’ve broken the story.”
No, he did not. Kelce hasn’t popped the question, sources close to the couple told E! and TMZ. One insider expressed their frustration candidly to TMZ, saying, “It’s not true and the recent erratic and unfounded speculation on this couple is just proving that media and overzealous fans do not know what’s going on with them and shouldn’t make wild assumptions based on zero facts. Two days ago everyone had decided they were broken up, now they’re allegedly secretly engaged? It’s whiplash-inducing.”
In early August, Kelce’s rep denied there were “any official engagement plans” in place. Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce, also dodged Page Six’s question about whether her son would propose to Swift at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards last night.
She said, “Nobody knows that. We will see what happens. You never know.”
And a source told Daily Mail last week while debunking breakup rumors (yes, breakup rumors), “People need to chill and drop this breakup nonsense, just like they should stop the endless speculation about marriage and engagement. One day it’s this rumor, the next it’s that, and they’re not even close to either.”
Kelce and Swift have been together just over a year; engagement rumors started just four months after their relationship began. While Swift has been more public about her romance with Kelce than some of her previous relationships, she and Kelce have still kept the majority of their relationship to themselves.
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.