Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City in July. “There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: ‘Yo! Did you know he was coming?’” Kelce told the outlet. “I had somebody playing Cupid.”Kelce was not privy to any matchmaking until he received a text from Swift herself. “She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out,” he said.

“She’ll probably hate me for saying this, but… when she came to Arrowhead, they gave her the big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins were taking pictures… in front of my locker,” he revealed of his “in” with Swift’s inner circle. Swift and Kelce have been spotted out on several occasions. “When I met her in New York,” he said of one of their public outings, “we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there.”

Kelce says from the beginning, his own inner circle had warned him not to screw things up with Swift. “Everybody around me telling me: Don’t f— this up! And me sitting here saying: Yeah – got it.””Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them… I’ve never dealt with it,” Kelce said of Swift’s fame.

“But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it… The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.”