“Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic,” Swift said of her NFL star boyfriend

Travis Kelce had a subtle but sweet reaction to his VMAs shoutout from girlfriend Taylor Swift.

After Swift, 34, thanked him during her acceptance speech for the video of the year award at 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end liked a video of the sweet moment on MTV’s Instagram.

In the clip, the pop superstar — who won a total of seven Moon Person trophies, including artist of the year at the awards show — praised Kelce for his support while she and Post Malone accepted the award, which they won for their “Fortnight” video.

Swift said during the filming of the music video, Kelce was “cheering” from across the studio after every take.
The superstar singer referred to Kelce as her “boyfriend” on stage during the award show in New York City on Sept. 11, which fans pointed out is the first time she’s publicly spoken his name and referred to him as her boyfriend.

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During her speech, Swift praised her collaborator Malone and continued, “The thing is that this video, it seems very sad when you watch it, but it actually was like the most fun video to make.”

Swift continued, “And something that I’ll always remember is when I would finish a take and I’d say ‘cut’ and we’d be done with that take, I would always just hear like someone cheering from across the studio where we were shooting it, and that one person was my boyfriend, Travis.”

“Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic. So, I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot because I’ll always remember that,” Swift added.

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Kelce couldn’t attend the award show with Swift due to his practice schedule with the Chiefs, now that the NFL season is again in full swing.

However, the tight end — who makes his acting debut in Grotesquerie this month — wished Swift luck on an episode of his podcast, New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce.

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“Hopefully Taylor can walk away with a few, she’s nominated for about ten of those things tonight,” he said about the award show. “Hopefully she can walk away with some moon men,” he added. “Those are always one of the cooler trophies. The space guys.”