Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Started Dating Long Before They First Appeared Together, Says Neighbor Wes Bergmann

Mar. 15, 2025

Wes Bergmann, pictured left, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, pictured right.Photo:Art Streiber/E! Entertainment via Getty; Brooke Sutton/Getty

Art Streiber/E! Entertainment via Getty; Brooke Sutton/Getty

Travis Kelce’s next-door neighbor is sparking a discussion about the early days of the Kansas City Chiefs player’s relationship withTaylor Swift.

Wes Bergmann, who is known to exaggerate his stories, sat down with hostsMichele Fitzgeraldand Kellie Nalbandian onThe Social Game Podcastfor a February episode where he discussed his insider knowledge of the A-list couple.

Weeks after Bergmann’s interview aired, however, heposted on X, clarifying his previous statements.

“Omg y’all I’m so sorry and confused,” he wrote on March 4. “Everything being reported on is none of my business. My contribution to this was taken out of context and said in what I thought was relative obscurity, but it obviously wasn’t.”

“He moved in November, that’s all I know. I told Michele, who is a giant fan, hey this is serious. She didn’t believe me for six months. That was the intention of the comment.”

“Again it was taken out of context but I shouldn’t be talking about it anyway,” he concluded. “So consider this the last time I do.”

During the podcast episode, Nalbandian said one of “the first things” she learned about Bergmann, 41, before his appearance on the show was that he lives next to Kelce, 35.

TheTraitorsstar then revealed that living in the exclusive gated community of Leawood in Kansas City, made him aware Kelce was dating the “Bad Blood” singer, 35, months before it was revealed publicly.

“He’s an enigma — on one hand, he’s like this big, tough football player,” the two-time winner ofThe Challengesaid of Kelce. “On the other, he’s going to have about 12 Taylor Swift songs written about him.”

Wes Bergmann on The Social Game Podcast.The Social Game/YouTube

The Social Game/YouTube

“Okay and on that note, I was like the first person to know about any of this stuff and I tried to tell this woman a long time ago,” he said referring to Fitzgerald. " ‘They are together, just so you know’ and she didn’t believe it.

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Fitzgerald chimed in, saying, “She loves a brooding artist, usually they are a bit scrawnier, they’re kind of like womanizers in a lot of ways. And then you have him who seems chivalrous, an all-American football player and he has just been winning and crushing.”

“To me he’s the boy next door,” Bergmann added as Nalbandian dubbed him the “winner of girly chat” for being among the first to know Kelce and Swift were dating.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at the US Open Tennis Championships in 2024.Gotham/GC Images

Gotham/GC Images

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end attended Swift’s Era tour on July 8, 2023, with rumors they were dating arising in the months after as the “Blank Space” singer was spotted attending some of his games.

PEOPLE had confirmed that Swift andThe 1975frontmanMatty Healywere “no longer romantically involved” on June 5, 2023, while Kelce previously dated fitness modelKayla Nicole.

It wasn’t until October 2023 thatSwift and Kelce’srelationship was confirmed as they stepped out together at aSaturday Night Liveafterparty.

“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,“Swift shared withTimein December 2023. “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”

source: people.com