Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Share Rare On‑Camera Kiss During New Heights Podcast
I’m Kai Montgomery, and yes, I will sigh through this so you don’t have to. Picture two megastars, a live podcast, and a peck that the internet will milk for weeks. That is exactly what happened when Taylor Swift appeared on the New Heights podcast with Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce on August 13, 2025.
Fine. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kissed on camera at the tail end of her more than two‑hour conversation with the Kelce brothers. Jason Kelce reacted aloud—”Oh my gosh, alright”—which is probably the reaction you had, except louder and in a living room. The smooch was short, sweet, and deliberate enough to be noticed by anyone paying attention to the episode that also included deep dives into Taylor’s music, business moves, and a few awkwardly endearing revelations about their meet‑cute.
Taylor didn’t just pop by to provide photo ops. She used the extended podcast time to discuss how she gained control of her masters, the creative process behind her twelfth studio album The Life of a Showgirl, and to finally tell her side of the origin story everyone has already memorized. If you forgot how this all began, let me remind you so you can stop pretending Twitter is news.
Travis first famously lamented on New Heights in July 2023 that he failed to get a friendship bracelet with his number to Taylor during her Eras Tour stop at Arrowhead Stadium. That on‑air grumble allegedly put him on Taylor’s radar. During the August episode, Taylor admitted Travis “didn’t even reach out” to her management or formally request access to her dressing room—he apparently relied on an elevator attendant and his own confidence. She called his efforts “crazy” but also romantic in an ’80s John Hughes movie sort of way, comparing his boldness to a boom‑box outside a window and a handmade friendship bracelet offering. She even confessed that, as a teenager, she wrote songs about exactly that sort of cinematic moment and that she might have manifested it.
Travis’ version remains straightforward: he was mesmerized by her performance and felt compelled to find a way to meet her, admitting on his podcast that if he hadn’t felt that pull he might never have used the show as his makeshift dating app. He told Taylor he left the concert wanting to know her better, and his public airing of his “butt hurt” feelings arguably set the wheels in motion. Taylor confirmed some of the odd logistics, like the missing original friendship bracelet, which she says she’s never seen, while Travis joked that the crew didn’t leave the stadium because he was “butt hurt.”
Throughout the interview, the chemistry was undeniable. They traded flirty banter, laughed through awkward retellings, and ended with that on‑camera kiss that felt both staged for fans and genuine between the pair. Jason’s audible shock injected the moment with the kind of realness a scripted PR event rarely achieves.
Yes, this is public romance. Yes, it’s partly performative. But it also offers a rare window into how two very public people narrate their own relationship: he was smitten at the show, he used a popular podcast to speed up fate, and she—ever the storyteller—recognized her teenage daydreams come true. Their kiss is now part of the narrative, a punctuation point on a story that began with a missed bracelet and became a cultural headline.
So there you have it: podcast confessionals, friendship bracelet mythology, a mini cinematic meet‑cute, and a kiss to close the chapter for now. Expect more analysis, merch, and thinkpieces. I know you will, and honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised.
Final bit of wisdom you didn’t know you needed: public love stories are entertaining, messy, and exhausting. You’re welcome.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! News, New Heights podcast
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