All of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Moments in <i>The End of an Era</i>
THE RUNDOWN
- Travis Kelce makes appearances in Taylor Swift’s The End of an Era docuseries, but not in every episode.
- The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is featured heavily in episode 4 of the Disney+ show.
- Swift also offers insight into why her relationship with Kelce works.
In The End of an Era, Taylor Swift offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of her Eras Tour and her life on the road. The singer didn’t hide her relationship with Travis Kelce in the docuseries, either. While Kelce does not appear in every episode, Swift’s then-boyfriend, now-fiancé, is a supportive force throughout her tour.
The series sheds light on how they maintained their long-distance relationship as they both worked—and how much love they have for each other and their careers.
Below, a guide to all the Travis Kelce moments in the series, episode by episode.
Kelce makes a phone cameo at two points in the episode, which was shot during Swift’s August 2024 shows in London. While Kelce appeared onstage with her during a June performance in the U.K., the Kansas City Chiefs tight end had to return to the U.S. for training camp.
During a car ride in London in the doc, Swift calls Kelce, greeting her “baby” warmly. He marveled over how skilled Swift and her team were: “How are you guys so good? You can just do a little like, in-the-back-room rehearsal and then go do this in front of everyone.”
She replied, “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.”
“You got teammates, I got teammates,” he added.
She finished, “You’ve got [Chiefs] coach [Andy] Reid, I’ve got my mom, [Andrea Swift].”
As they discuss her London show further, Kelce says, “I want to be there.” Swift playfully replied, “I want you to be there! Why do you have to be in the NFL?”
At that point of their relationship, they were exchanging I love yous. “I love you so much, baby!” Kelce said as they were wrapping up.
“I love you so much!” she reciprocated.
“Thanks for making my day better,” he added.
“Thank you. I know, this was like—some people get a vitamin drip; I got this conversation,” she admitted.
After her first London concert, Swift is filmed getting into her car and immediately calling Kelce. She recaps how well the show went, telling the NFL player that the crowd’s optimism and spirit were just what she needed to get back on track after having to cancel her August Vienna shows due to terrorist threats. Swift had been greatly shaken by what happened but purposely kept her distress and anxiety hidden from fans.
Kelce does not appear on camera in the episode, but in another segment, Swift appears rehearsing in a Kansas City Chiefs top, a nod to her fiancé’s team.
Kelce doesn’t appear in the second episode of the series, which focuses on her preparing her Tortured Poets Department set for the Eras Tour and rehearsing with Florence Welch for their “Florida!!!” performance in London.
Kelce himself does not appear in third episode, which focuses primarily on Swift and her team’s return to the tour after a two-month break. Key moments include the debut of Swift’s new Reputation-era bodysuit; the story behind singer Jeslyn Gorman’s cancer diagnosis and recovery; and the complexity of putting on the Eras Tour show itself.
Episode 4, “Thank You For The Lovely Bouquet,” features Kelce heavily, as he both appears and is mentioned multiple times throughout the installment. Early on, fans watch a segment from the now-viral New Heights podcast in which Kelce first shared that he sought to give Swift his phone number via friendship bracelet.
Later, Swift’s mother, Andrea Swift, shares why she was the one to encourage Swift’s relationship with Kelce. After seeing headlines about his New Heights episode, she reached out to her cousin, Robin, her “residential expert on the Kansas City Chiefs.”
“She said, ‘Oh, my God. He’s the nicest guy. And you know what? He really loves his mom, [Donna Kelce],’” Andrea says. “I went, ‘Ding, ding, ding, ding. Now, how in the world am I gonna get [Swift] to meet him?’”
As Andrea recounts this story, Swift adds that she had previously considered her type to be “very non-athlete” in relationships, “because I’m not one, and I’ve always just been like, ‘Well, what would we talk about?’” But, Swift continues, her mother convinced her. “You call me up with this tone of, like, ‘Hey, so I know you’re gonna not react well to this. But there’s a guy...You said something to the effect of, like, ‘You’ve got to start doing something different.’”
Elsewhere in episode 4, audiences learn how Kelce’s surprise cameo in the Eras Tour—during a June 2024 show—came to fruition. “I can’t remember how it came up,” Swift says of the initial idea to include Kelce in a vaudeville-style skit during the Tortured Poet’s Department segment of the show. “I think we were just joking around about him doing it, like him going up there with [dancer] Kam [Saunders], and it became very clear that [Kelce], like, wasn’t joking.”
Swift continues, “Travis is, like, a real ‘yes’ guy, in terms of life itself...The fans absolutely love Travis, and I think it’s because they can tell that he loves them, too, and he just kind of loves all people.”
Finally, alongside clips of Swift watching Kelce play for the Chiefs, the pop star gave a candid explanation for why she believes her relationship with Kelce has worked when others have not. There has “been this dynamic shift with Travis,” she says in episode 4. “It’s shocking how many similarities we have towards our jobs and how we view them, and how we view each other. We both have jobs where we go out in NFL stadiums and entertain people for three-and-a-half hours, his with considerably more violence than mine, but he’s not in heels. But it’s our passion. We’ve been chasing this since we were little kids. So I don’t think I ever thought I’d meet a guy who had that same trajectory...And I’ve realized that, with this person in my life that just was the right fit for me, you can have the two passions coexist, and they actually fuel each other...Ultimately, we love cheering each other on.”
“Thank You For The Lovely Bouquet” concludes with clips of Kelce watching Swift’s renditions of “Cowboy Like Me,” “Bejeweled,” and “Karma” at the Eras Tour, followed by footage of him joining her beneath and beyond the stage.
“The fans absolutely love Travis, and I think it’s because they can tell that he loves them, too, and he just kind of loves all people,” Swift says. “Travis is just very comfortable with, conceptually speaking, a big life, because he has one...I think, ultimately, it’s the way he treats me. It’s very clear. And I think that’s one of the reasons why the fans are so in love with him. Because you should be, you know? He’s very lovable.”
This episode focuses more on Swift’s family, especially her late grandmother Marjorie Finlay, who was an opera singer and inspired Swift’s love of music and performing. It also highlights how Andrea Swift built a support system for both her own mother and daughter throughout their parallel careers. At the end of the episode, Swift reflects on background singer Kamilah Marshall’s comments about wishing her late mother was able to see the Eras Tour. Swift felt similarly about her late grandmother, but she also cherished the fact that her loved ones who are still with her did experience the tour. “The fact that mom got to see it, and Travis got to see it, and dad got to see it, that’s what cracked me. It cracked me wide open,” she tells her brother Austin.
In the final episode, footage shows Swift reading a letter from Kelce celebrating the last three shows of the Eras Tour. She reads part of it aloud: “So many unbelievable memories from this tour, but my favorite one is seeing you in concert for the first time, being mesmerized and swept off my feet by a woman who doesn’t even know me. I selfishly say thank you for creating this legendary tour and to Robert [Allen, tour manager] for making you stop through Kansas City, Missouri. That night, too, in KC was the beginning of me meeting the love of my life.”
Swift reads the rest of the letter in silence and says in response, “Oh my God, so much for no emotions on the last three shows.”
Though she and Kelce aren’t together, Swift also shows her support from afar. As she arrives at her final show on Dec. 8, 2024, she wears a Kansas City Chiefs sweater. “Guess what day it is? Sunday!” she says in the car, revealing her red and white top underneath her jacket. Swift even watches the game on a TV she has set up backstage while rehearsing (the Chiefs were playing the L.A. Chargers that day), screaming for a touchdown while playing guitar. After she walks offstage at her final show to celebrate with her family, her dad tells her the Chiefs won.
This post has been updated.
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