Taylor Swift and Ed Kelsey.
Kara Durrett/Getty Imageswith Taylor SwiftHis 35th birthday is on the horizon, Travis KelseyDad was thinking of the perfect gift.
“Trying to buy Taylor a gift is like trying to buy (my sons) Jason or Travis a gift.” Ed Kelsey He said during an appearance on Thursday, December 12 on 92.3 The Fan's Baskin and Phelps Radio program In cleveland. “There's nothing they want, that they don't already have. There's nothing that they think they might get, and they haven't really come up with exactly any model. You can't go down that road.”
Ed and ex-wife Donna Kelsey Sons Jason, 37, and Travis, 35, participated. Both are NFL stars. Jason played 14 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles before retiring earlier this year. Meanwhile, Travis is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. He began dating Swift, 34, in the summer of 2023. She turns 35 on Friday, December 13.
“You have to dig in and come up with something special,” Ed explained Thursday. “The amount of money is meaningless. “You're not going to wow Taylor Swift with a $100,000 gift, but get her something that tugs at her heartstrings and spend $10 on and she'll be totally sticky.”
“You have to find something that evokes emotion,” he continued.
Ed first met Swift before one of Travis' Chiefs games in September 2023, where he was struck by her down-to-earth demeanor.
“Taylor walked into (Travis' house) with a security guy, and I looked at her, and I said (to my friend, 'Oh my God, I know this kid, but I don't know what her name is.' 'Oh my God, you know, like a real idiot,'” Ed recalled. During the January appearance on a Cleveland-based radio show. “And (my friend) says: 'You don't know her?' This is Taylor Swift, you idiot.”
Travis Kelsey's father, Ed Kelsey, has nothing but nice things to say about his son's new girlfriend, superstar Taylor Swift. “I think (Travis and Taylor) are a great couple,” Ed said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on Wednesday, October 25. “I think they deserve a great friendship with each other, and if (…)”
Since then, Ed and Swift have teamed up for several of Travis' appearances, including the AFC Championship and the Super Bowl earlier this year.
“Every game, people would congregate outside the front of that pavilion and try to catch a glimpse of Taylor, and want to meet Taylor,” Ed later said. L said Los Angeles Times In January. “Taylor is very generous, but she can't do everything. She has security guys who don't want her to do anything. That's their job, and she's smart enough to know: 'I'm paying these guys to keep me safe.'” Maybe I should listen To them.
“But if it were up to her, she would be there with everyone who wanted her,” he added.
Swift also bonded with Donna, Jason, and his family, including his pregnant wife Kylie Kelsey And their three daughters. So fast Kelce's entire family hosted At her family's Thanksgiving celebration in November.
