{"id":1983002,"date":"2025-08-27T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1983002"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:17:13","slug":"ed-kelce-says-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-facetimed-after-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ed-kelce-says-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-facetimed-after-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Kelce Says Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce FaceTimed After Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ed Kelce<\/strong> revealed son <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/travis-kelce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong><\/a> and his soon-to-be daughter-in-law <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> FaceTimed him and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/donna-kelce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donna Kelce<\/strong><\/a> after they got engaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew,\u201d Ed, 74, told local ABC affiliate <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/travis-kelces-father-ed-kelce-says-the-couple-got-engaged-almost-2-weeks-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News 5 Cleveland<\/a> on Tuesday, August 26, just hours after Travis and Swift, both 35, announced their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-engagement-everything-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engagement<\/a>. \u201cSo, to see them together is great.\u201d (Ed and Donna, 72, revealed in 2024 that they had <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/donna-kelce-stood-still-for-years-before-ending-ed-kelce-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divorced<\/a> after 25 years of marriage.)<\/p>\n<p>Ed added that when he saw a FaceTime request pop up his phone screen, he knew what he was about to learn. \u201cI was at \u2026 a [Philadelphia] Eagles practice [that] \u2026 had 60,000 people at a public practice two weeks ago on a Sunday night,\u201d he explained. \u201cAs soon as I saw the FaceTime, I saw it was Travis, and then I saw Taylor there with him, I knew what they were going to say, and they, you know, let us know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proud father told the outlet that he was informed of Travis\u2019 proposal plans \u201cmonths in advance\u201d and even expected the Chiefs tight end to get down on one knee during the 2024 NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Ed also revealed that he and Donna, who has yet to publicly address her son\u2019s engagement, spent quality time with Travis and Swift after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/travis-kelce-and-parents-donna-and-ed-attend-the-kingdom-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attending<\/a> the Kansas City premiere of ESPN\u2019s new docuseries <em>The Kingdom<\/em> on Sunday, August 24. (The six-part series charts the early days of Travis and Swift\u2019s relationship.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4082869\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:71.857142857143%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHis mother and I went with him back to his house for dinner, where Taylor made dinner, and we had a wonderful dinner with them outside on the patio and to just watch the two of them just crazy about each other. It\u2019s truly kinda neat,\u201d Ed told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>While Ed revealed that the pair got engaged at a garden in Lee\u2019s Summit, Missouri, the outlet noted that \u201cno wedding planning\u201d has happened yet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just two young people very much in love, cast in a spotlight that they really haven\u2019t sought but kind of followed with their success in their respective fields,\u201d Ed added.<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Travis announced their engagement via a joint Instagram post on Tuesday. A carousel of images captured the moment she said \u201cyes,\u201d while a caption read, \u201cYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.\u201d (The caption referenced Swift\u2019s acclaimed songwriting as well as Travis\u2019 athletic achievements in the NFL.)<\/p>\n<p>Travis proposed in a rose-filled garden as a seemingly emotional Swift was presented with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/news\/taylor-swifts-engagement-ring-the-cut-designer-and-more-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a diamond<\/a> by Kindred Lubeck at Artifex Fine Jewelry.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Kelce revealed son Travis Kelce and his soon-to-be daughter-in-law Taylor Swift FaceTimed him and Donna Kelce after they got engaged. \u201cThey started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew,\u201d Ed, 74, told local ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland on Tuesday, August 26, just hours after Travis and Swift, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1983003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,30992,31500,30055,24003,21741,24386,164683,42463,21800,108642,21738,21848],"class_list":["post-1983002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-dads","tag-celebrity-kids","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-love-lives","tag-moms","tag-music","tag-music-stars","tag-news","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ed-Kelce-Says-Taylor-Swift-and-Travis-Kelce-FaceTimed-After.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}