Travis Kelce Says He Planned Swift Proposal on Podcast

In the season finale of his "New Heights" podcast released on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, NFL star Travis Kelce revealed that he began planning his marriage proposal to Taylor Swift immediately after she appeared on the show's season premiere in August 2025. The episode, featuring guest Tom Brady, was recorded ahead of the couple's wedding, which took place on July 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Reflecting on the podcast's most recent season, Kelce said the premiere episode with Swift was "pretty epic" and that during the entire recording he was thinking, "I'm gonna ask this woman to marry me after." He described the beginning of the season with Swift as a moment he would remember forever. That August 2025 episode marked Swift's first appearance on the podcast, during which she announced her twelfth studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl." According to co-host Jason Kelce, the episode became the most-watched in the podcast's history, drawing 25 million views on YouTube.

The couple announced their engagement publicly on August 26, 2025. Swift later recounted in an October 2025 television interview that the podcast recording served as a distraction while a crew prepared a...