{"id":1988283,"date":"2025-08-30T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1988283"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:03:08","slug":"nj-mom-claims-shes-responsible-for-setting-up-taylor-swift-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nj-mom-claims-shes-responsible-for-setting-up-taylor-swift-travis-kelce\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ mom claims she&#8217;s responsible for setting up Taylor Swift &#038; Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She\u2019s a Taylor ham.<\/p>\n<p>An influencer insists she deserves credit for bringing \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/taylorswift\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">your English teacher and your gym teacher<\/a>\u201d together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/29\/sports\/nebraskas-taylor-swift-tweet-mocking-travis-kelce-engagement-deleted-after-outcry\/\">Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged,<\/a> and I think I\u2019m responsible,\u201d New Jersey mom Kristina Zias declared in a video posted Tuesday \u2014 the same day the power couple <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/27\/sports\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-engagement-post-shatters-instagram-record-with-1m-reposts-in-6-hours-meta-says\/\">shared their engagement news<\/a> \u2014 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kristinazias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her TikTok page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, kind of. Watch this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zias, 37,\u00a0a plus-size model and stylist who also appears as a fashion expert\u00a0on \u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show,\u201d posted her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90terRJMU1g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AfterBuzz TV interview<\/a> with Kelce in 2006 \u2014 where she asked the Kansas City Chiefs tight end to play \u201cKill, Marry, Kiss\u201d \u2014 and gave him three pop stars as options \u2014 Swift, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cDamn, that\u2019s messed up, I don\u2019t wanna kill any of them,\u201d Kelce told her, then proceeded to make his draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAriana is kill, unfortunately. Love you, but you\u2019re gone. And then Taylor Swift<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/26\/sports\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-taylor-swifts-engagement-ring-after-travis-kelce-proposal\/\"> would be the kiss<\/a> and then Katy Perry would be the marry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zias noted that Swift referenced the interview in one of her songs \u2014 by playing the lyric from 2024\u2019s \u201cSo High School\u201d \u2014 \u201cAre you gonna marry, kiss or kill me?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travis Kelce: KISS, MARRY, KILL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/90terRJMU1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>TikTokers hailed Zias for her matchmaking skills, with accolades like, \u201cGirl you manifested this for them!\u201d and \u201cYou literally made this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others insisted she serve as the maid of honor at the Kelce-Swift wedding \u2014 or at least get an invitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou ABSOLUTELY have to be there! 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883px\"\/><figcaption>TikTokers feel that Zias should get an invitation to the power couple\u2019s big day.  <span class=\"credit\">Taylor Swift \/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, Zias followed up with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kristinazias\/video\/7360873033986362667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another post that read<\/a>, \u201cMe waiting for the entire world to realize I\u2019m the person that interviewed Travis Kelce and started his and Taylor\u2019s love story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That post has collected 2.9 million views and over 1,400 comments calling her \u201ca national hero\u201d and \u201cdoing the lord\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 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An influencer insists she deserves credit for bringing \u201cyour English teacher and your gym teacher\u201d together. \u201cTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged, and I think I\u2019m responsible,\u201d New Jersey mom Kristina Zias declared in a video posted Tuesday \u2014 the same day the power couple shared their engagement news \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1988284,"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":[25174],"tags":[24076,24188,35566,48686,32366,21741,24511,22027,23360,23084,22488,190738],"class_list":["post-1988283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-ariana-grande","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-dating","tag-celebrity-engagements","tag-celebrity-marriages","tag-entertainment","tag-influencers","tag-katy-perry","tag-new-jersey","tag-taylor-swift","tag-tiktok","tag-travis-kelce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NJ-mom-claims-shes-responsible-for-setting-up-Taylor-Swift.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988283","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=1988283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}