Rumors of a hoop and a request for her father’s blessing…are Taylor and Travis about to get engaged?

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By Sara Nathan

When you thought 2023 was Taylor Swift’s yr, suppose once more — as a result of 2024 is shaping as much as be much more of a wild experience for the celebrity.

By the point Swift steps on stage in Tokyo for the subsequent date of her “Eras” tour on February 7, she might nicely have a brand new accent: an engagement ring.

Don’t get too excited but, however Web page Six even hears that her boyfriend, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, has requested the singer’s father Scott Swift’s permission for her hand in marriage. It’s additionally “very possible” they’re spending the vacation collectively.

A supply near Kelce claimed: “Scott has been requested for his blessing and has wholeheartedly given it, and Travis has been speaking to buddies a few ring.”

There’s discuss the ring is being designed or may very well be in his pocket already.

Swift and Kelce’s reps are retaining mum, but it surely’s very clear that their relationship is simply going a technique … from sizzling to even hotter.

Kelce, 34, is “essentially the most extroverted man Taylor has dated in ceaselessly,” mentioned the supply. “That is a lot more true to who Taylor is than any prior relationship.”

Certainly, the couple has not shied away from flaunting their romance, which is a giant change from lots of the singer’s different relationships — together with along with her final boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn — which have primarily been carried out beneath a cloak of secrecy.

“If Taylor needs to vary the lyrics to her music after 4 months of relationship and sing in entrance of 60,000 folks … Travis will stand there beaming for the gang — he’s digging it,” mentioned the supply, referencing a November 13 Buenos Aires, Argentina, tour cease when Swift altered the lyrics to her music “Karma”: Karma is the man on the Chiefs coming straight house to me.”

“Taylor lastly has a accomplice prepared and sport,” the supply mentioned. “He’s like, ‘I’ll stand by the facet of the stage and wait so that you can bounce in my arms — I’ll try this!’”

In April, it was revealed that Swift’s six-year relationship with British actor Alwyn had ended. The pair had been residing quietly in London and spent Covid lockdown collectively writing songs that appeared on Swift’s hit pandemic albums “Folklore” and “Evermore.” They have been not often seen in public collectively.

“Joe would relatively minimize off his arm than go to Zero Bond,” mentioned an trade supply, referring to the unique NYC membership the place Swift kicked off her thirty fourth birthday celebrations with buddies Selena Gomez and Miles Teller and his spouse, Keleigh Sperry, on Tuesday.

A Swift insider added: “Taylor is so in love. She simply hasn’t been with a man who’s so excited and proud to be along with her in so lengthy. She’d gotten used to having to cover away and lay low each time she’s been in a relationship. 

“Calvin [Harris, the DJ Swift dated in 2015 and 2016] and Joe have been BIG on hiding. So she adopted their lead,” the Swift insider mentioned. “However now she’s lastly with somebody who’s appropriately like, ‘Holy s–t, I’m with Taylor Swift! Superior!’ and he or she’s so delighted that she will get to be out on the planet.

“Don’t overlook, this can be a woman who made out with Harry Types in Instances Sq. [on New Year’s Eve 2012] and posted photos of her fling [actor Tom Hiddleston, in 2016] sporting an ‘I coronary heart TS’ T-shirt. Low key isn’t really her most well-liked vibe. However when it’s been on the insistence of the man she’s with, she’s gone together with it.”

When Swift was not too long ago named Time’s 2023 Person of the Year, she gave the journal a candid interview about every part from her previous feuds to her love life. 

In it, she revealed how her romance with Kelce got here to be, saying it “all began when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I believed was metallic as hell.”

Swift added: “While you say a relationship is public, meaning I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re displaying up for one another, different persons are there and we don’t care … The other of that’s it’s a must to go to an excessive quantity of effort to ensure nobody is aware of that you simply’re seeing somebody. And we’re simply happy with one another.”

On September 24, the singer was first noticed decked out in Chiefs colours to observe the staff tackle the Chicago Bears at KC’s Arrowhead Stadium.

Throughout the sport, she chatted with Kelce’s mother, Donna, in a field and cheered alongside when he scored a landing. Afterward, Swift and Kelce have been seen driving off in his 1970 Chevelle 408 Stroker convertible.

“I believe some folks suppose that they noticed our first date at that sport? We’d by no means be psychotic sufficient to onerous launch a primary date,” Swift informed Time.

The couple additional confirmed their romance in October once they stepped out holding palms at a “Saturday Night time Reside” afterparty after each making shock cameos on the present.

Whereas the pair could also be heading for the altar, as buddies hope, it comes amid controversy over whether or not it will really be Swift’s first engagement.

In her 2020 Netflix documentary, “Miss Americana”, Swift sparked rumors that she was engaged to Alwyn by sporting an enormous diamond ring on her marriage ceremony finger.

However earlier this month, Swift’s longtime publicist Tree Paine slammed on-line rumors that Swift and Alwyn had tied the knot.

“There was NEVER a wedding or ceremony of ANY sort,” Paine posted on X.

The assertion got here on the heels of the 12-time Grammy winner formally releasing her newest music “You’re Shedding Me” on all streaming platforms. Extensively thought of to be a breakup anthem about Alwyn, the music — which accommodates the lyric “I wouldn’t marry me both” — set tongues wagging when Swift’s producer Jack Antonoff posted on Instagram that Swift had written it in 2021, when the 2 have been nonetheless collectively.

Alwyn barely even mentioned Swift’s identify in interviews, and has solely talked about her a handful of instances.

When her “Folklore” was launched in 2020, Swift’s followers found that her co-writer William Bowery was a nom-de-plume for Alwyn.

The actor then final yr informed Vulture he and Swift had began working collectively throughout Covid.

“It was fully off the cuff, an accident,” he mentioned of taking part in a piano riff. “She mentioned, ‘Can we attempt to sit down and get to the tip collectively?’ And so we did. It was as fundamental as some folks made sourdough.”

Alwyn ended up co-writing two songs on “Folklore” — “Exile” and “Betty” — and three on “Evermore” (“Champagne Issues,” “Coney Island” and the title observe).

Whereas Kelce was in coaching lockdown this week and couldn’t be part of Zoe Kravitz, Blake Energetic and Gigi Hadid to have a good time Swift’s birthday at The Field on Manhattan’s Decrease East Facet Wednesday, Swift will see him this weekend: She’s as a result of attend the Chiefs conflict towards the New England Patriots on the latter’s Foxborough Stadium.

“Taylor all the time knew she would have a good time with out Travis,” mentioned the Kelce supply. “That is an intensely aggravating time for him.”

The couple may also must journey steadily to see one another subsequent yr as Swift’s tour will take her from Asia to Australia and the UK and Europe.

However amid discuss of a wedding proposal, the Swift supply mentioned: “No matter occurs, all of Taylor’s buddies are delighted for her.”