Travis Kelce had to move after he began dating Taylor Swift because of safety concerns, said Jason Kelce, his brother and fellow football star.
Travis Kelce and Swift began dating in July 2023 after he said on the brothers’ podcast, “New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce,” that he was interested in meeting the pop singer and giving her his number. A month later, Swift began attending Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs games, raising the football star’s profile and creating a buzz around their relationship.
Jason Kelce said on Monday’s episode of “The Big Podcast with Shaq” that his brother had to move after he started dating Swift because fans began gathering around his house. Then, he said, the fans found Travis Kelce’s new address.
The first day he moved into the house, which was in a gated community, “somebody knocks on a back door — a window — of the house,” Kelce said.
Travis Kelce and Swift’s representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Although the brothers were already football stars, Jason Kelce said he didn’t truly know what fame was until Swift entered the picture.
“We’ve always been big in the football world, right, Travis especially. The Taylor world and the pop-culture world, that’s a whole different level,” Jason Kelce said, adding: “It’s a new demographic that wasn’t there before.”
“It’s crazy what it opens up, opportunity-wise,” he added. It’s crazy to feel how much joy you bring people or how much you affect, you know, people’s daily lives.”
In November, Travis Kelce told The Wall Street Journal about coping with his newfound fame from dating Swift.
“Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them… I’ve never dealt with it,” Travis Kelce said. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it.”
Travis Kelce also praised Swift for how she dealt with the attention she was getting.
“The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life,” he said. “When she acts like that, I better not be the one acting all strange.”
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