Does Taylor Swift’s Engagement to Travis Kelce Disprove Assumptions That She Was Once Engaged to Joe Alwyn?
Taylor Swift fans have been waiting months for a post they had been hoping for. The day is finally here. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are officially engaged, and they were more than happy to share the news on Instagram. The big engagement might be shocking to some bookmakers, many of whom considered an engagement announcement a 50-50 shot at best, but not to those who have followed their love story. They saw it coming. Fans might have been right about this one, but the way Kelce and Swift announced it suggests a long-held belief about a previous relationship is completely wrong. While many Swifties assumed Swift and her ex, Joe Alwyn, were engaged at one point, it appears that this was probably not the case.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift announce that they are engaged in a big way
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are ready to take the next step. The longstanding couple is officially engaged. They announced the big news via Instagram on August 26 and quickly broke the Internet. The couple’s announcement has garnered over 15 million likes in just two hours.
The engagement is something fans have been assuming would happen for the last year. In more recent months, Andy Reid hinted that a wedding was imminent, and Taylor Swift’s visit to Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast seemed to seal the deal for fans. It is unclear exactly when Kelce popped the question, but according to the Instagram pictures, he did it with a big ring in a garden.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift made their relationship public in the fall of 2023. They met sometime after July 2023. Kelce was seen regularly at Swift’s Eras tour dates, and she showed up to Chiefs games whenever she could. The duo seemed to fall into a comfortable rhythm quickly. What struck fans was their alignment in dealing with the public. The partners have consistently handled the fan frenzy with quiet confidence.
Does it prove she was never engaged to Joe Alwyn?
Kelce and Swift’s love affair has been pretty public. The couple has been decidedly open with fans, and they’ve learned to love that energy. Swift wasn’t always that way when it came to her serious romances. In fact, she kept most of her relationship with Joe Alwyn completely under wraps. The secrecy and mystery led to much speculation about the state of their long-term relationship, including rumors of an engagement.
Around 2020, three years into their partnership, tabloids began suggesting that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were quietly engaged and planning a wedding. Swift had largely moved into Alwyn’s London world, and they appeared closer than ever by 2020. The speculation reached a fever pitch in 2022. It abruptly stopped the following year when the couple announced the end of their romance. They never confirmed a thing.
While speculation suggests Alwyn struggled with Swift’s increasingly public life, and she struggled with keeping everything private all the time, we can’t imagine the pair would have actually hidden an engagement for years. The former flames never discussed plans to wed publicly. Considering how very public Swift’s current engagement is, we can venture a guess that the rumors about a Swift-Alwyn wedding were indeed just that. It’s safe to assume that her current engagement is her first.
Is Joe Alwyn dating anyone right now?
Joe Alwyn moved on from his relationship with Taylor Swift in much the same way he had conducted himself during it, privately. While Alwyn is rumored to be dating and was briefly linked to Kendall Jenner, he has not confirmed a romance since ending things with Swift. It sounds like he won’t be doing that anytime soon. The man prefers a quiet existence, it seems.
Still, he did discuss the rollercoaster ride that dating someone super famous took him on during a chat with The Guardian. Alwyn noted that the romance with Swift was a time in his life that had long since passed. He insisted that he’s focused on the things he can control at the moment. He told the outlet, “I have great family and friends and real things in my life; those are the things that kept me tethered to the ground.” As was expected, he has not commented on Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce.
