Inside NFL star Travis Kelce's dating history amid Taylor Swift ...
TRAVIS Kelce suffered an incompletion when he tried to hook up with pop sensation Taylor Swift earlier this summer.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end thought he had blown his chance with the 12-time Grammy winner after failing to give her his phone number during one of her concerts.
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But it seems the two-time Super Bowl champion has recovered from that fumble amid rumors he has developed a budding romance with Swift.
"Taylor and Travis have been quietly hanging out," a source told The Messenger.
"She saw him when she was in NYC a few weeks ago."
It is unclear if the rumored relationship will last.
But many in the NFL world are hoping the two get together.
Former New England Patriots star Rob Gronkowski has called on the duo to date so that they can become the "No.1 Ken and Barbie" of football.
Here is a look at Travis' dating history from a romance with a reality show star to an on-off relationship with a model.
Travis was the star of a reality show on E! in 2016 called Catching Kelce, which featured 50 women from 50 states competing for the NFL star's heart.
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In the season finale, Travis ended up choosing contestant Maya Benberry over Veronica Harwood.
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The couple dated for a couple of months after the show but it did not last.
The short-lived relationship was something that Travis almost predicted on Catching Kelce.
"I love your confidence, but at times it does get overconfident," he told Maya.
"It kind of shows arrogance. I have been attracted to women like that my entire life, and those relationships didn't work because of that.
"I don't want that anymore. I feel like I came into this idea, this experience, this show because I needed that change in my life, and Veronica is that change....
"But even though my mind's telling me one thing, I got to go with my heart."
Travis does not look back fondly on the Bachelor-inspired reality show.
“It was extremely awkward because I really didn’t have much to say about what we were doing on the show,” he told The Pivot Podcast.
Travis says he mainly went into the show for financial reasons after burning through his NFL paychecks soon after entering the league.
“I was having so much fun buying whatever the hell I wanted to, going wherever the hell I wanted to, I wasn’t financially looking at this as I need to have money down the line,” he said.
“So I heard about this situation where I could make six figures in two weeks and I was like, ah, and 50 ladies, I’m like, ‘This is actually starting to sound a little better'."
After breaking up with Travis – she accused him of cheating on her – Maya appeared in another reality show, Ex On The Beach.
She is now a fashion and lifestyle influencer on Instagram, as well as a life coach.
Kaya NicoleTravis then had a high-profile on-off relationship with model Kayla Nicole for five years after they started dating in 2017.
After Travis flirted with her on Instagram for a few months by liking her pictures, she eventually plucked up the courage to slide into his DMs "after a little liquid courage."
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"I was just stalking her and then finally on New Year's, she gave in," Travis told E!
"And, you know, New Year new me. She just shot her shot, jumped in my DMs and the rest is history."
The couple first went public in May 2017, after attending former Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin's wedding.
They seemed well suited with Kayla having a background in sports after graduating from Pepperdine University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.
She worked for the NBA and BET and pursued a career in modeling.
With over 660,000 followers on Instagram, Kayle is an ambassador for several fashion brands, including Revolve, Crocs and Rihanna's Savage X Fenty brand.
The couple started off strong but broke up in 2020, with Travis vehemently denying that he had cheated on her.
"This is fake news… a lie… and not why Kayla and I broke up," Travis tweeted.
"Take all your hatred somewhere else please."
The couple got back together a few months later and spent a lot of time with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany.
But by May 2022 the relationship was over for good.
At the time, Barstool Sports alleged that the reason for their split was that Travis forced Kayla to pay for "half of everything" while they were dating.
But Travis was quick to deny those rumors.
“Don’t buy into that s--t," he told The Pivot Podcast.
“I would never say that I was supporting her. She had a very financially stable life and what she was doing in her career.
“But you’ve got to be crazy if you’d think I would never helped or gave her a couple thousand to grab some food or she gave me some money to go get some food.
"We were in a relationship for five years. A hundred dollars here, a hundred dollars there wasn’t even thought about.”
Taylor SwiftTravis' attempts to win over the pop sensation got off to a bad start when he tried and failed to meet her when she performed at Arrowhead Stadium during the summer.
He had even made a friendship bracelet for her.
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"I was disappointed that she doesn't talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings," Travis told his brother Jason on an episode of their New Heights podcast.
"I was a little butthurt that I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her."
Travis put his phone number on the bracelet and he thought it would be a sweet gift to give to Taylor.
But when he couldn't meet her in person, he took it "personal."
“She doesn’t meet anybody or at least she didn’t want to meet me, so I took it personal," he said.
"But it was an unbelievable show."
Despite Travis's failed first attempt at meeting Taylor, he quickly shook it off and the couple are rumored to have since hooked up.
Entertainment Tonight has since reported that the two are not officially dating, though.
