For fans who’ve ever wondered what Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce talk about, her Eras Tour docuseries delivered a behind-the-scenes peek at one of their private conversations.
The first episode of The End of an Era — which premiered on Disney+ on Friday, December 12 — showed the pop star, 35, and the NFL player, 36, chatting on the phone with each other. In their first conversation, filmed before Swift’s first Eras performance in London after her Vienna concerts were canceled because of a planned terror attack, Swift filled Kelce in on her preparations for Ed Sheeran’s imminent appearance during the surprise songs portion of the set.
“How are you guys so good?” Kelce asked. “You can just do a little, like, in-the-back-room rehearsal and then go do this in front of everyone.”
Swift appreciated the compliment, replying, “I love you. I don’t know, how do you remember 36,000 plays that are all tactical missions and then just go do it? It’s the same. It’s basically the same job! I got songs to remember, you got plays to remember.”
Kelce then quipped, “You got teammates, I got teammates,” before Swift added, “You’ve got Coach [Andy] Reid, I’ve got my mom,” as they both burst into laughter.
The duo then talked about how much Kelce wished he could be there for the show, with Swift jokingly lamenting, “Why do you have to be in the NFL?”
Kelce assured his then-girlfriend that he would be “scouring the internet” for videos of her performance, adding, “I love you so much, babe.”
After Swift noted she loves him “so much” too, Kelce replied, “Thanks for making my life better.”
Swift agreed with the sentiment, telling him, “I know, this was like, some people get a vitamin drip, I got this conversation.”
Later in the episode, Swift called Kelce shortly after the August 2024 concert to tell him that it went “so great” and she was “so happy” after feeling nervous.
“Oh, I can hear it in your voice so much,” Kelce replied.
“I’m so relieved,” Swift added. “Baby, it’s like the crowd knew that I needed a pick-me-up. When I walked out on stage, they were wilder than I’ve ever seen.”
Kelce agreed, saying, “They definitely did.”
The End of an Era offers an unprecedented glimpse of not only Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour but also her relationship with Kelce, which began in the summer of 2023. The first two episodes of the docuseries debuted on Friday, with two installments set to be released on both December 19 and December 26.
The Eras Tour holds special significance for the couple, who announced their engagement in August. Kelce famously tried to meet Swift at one of her Kansas City, Missouri, concerts in July 2023. After his plan to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it failed, he spoke publicly about their missed connection on his “New Heights” podcast with brother Jason Kelce, which led Swift to reach out to Travis.
During Swift’s “New Heights” debut in August, Travis explained the role the tour played in jump-starting his romance with Swift.
“As much as you wanna give ‘New Heights’ credit, I give The Eras Tour credit,” he told Swift at the time. “Because if I would’ve never gone to that show and been mesmerized and just been captivated and then left with such a desire to want to meet you, I would’ve never went on here and told everybody how butthurt I was. I’d never just been so engulfed in the curiosity of who you were.”
Not only was Travis swept away by Swift’s onstage persona, but he was just as enchanted by her behind closed doors.
“You see you on the stage and you see how crazy you can get an entire stadium going, and then I get you in a room and it’s like I’ve known you forever,” he gushed. “It was just the easiest conversation I ever had, and it was just so much fun that it just knocked my socks off.”
He added: “She blew me away. I had never experienced something so mesmerizing on stage and then so real and so beautiful in person.”
Travis later joined Swift during her travels for her international tour dates, giving the pair an opportunity to spend time together when she wasn’t performing.
“When we first started dating, he was like, ‘I always wanted to go and really vacation in Europe and see Australia and go to Asia,’ and I was like, ‘Well, I’ve got a tour for that. It’s coming up,’” Swift recalled. “We got to travel the world and have vacations and adventures when I wasn’t on stage, which was really fun because Europe was so fun, Australia’s amazing. It was great.”
The first two episodes of The End of an Era are now streaming on Disney+.
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