Jason Kelce Just Revealed What His Daughters Called Taylor Swift the First Time They Met Her

Sep 22, 2026 by apost team

When Jason Kelce's daughters first met their Uncle Travis's girlfriend, they handled it the way any starstruck child would — with complete, unfiltered formality.

"When they got to meet Aunt Tay Tay, they were calling her 'Taylor Swift,'" Travis Kelce revealed on a recent episode of the New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with his brother. He found it "adorable." Jason remembered the specific way it played out. "'Taylor Swift, can I do this? Taylor Swift?'" he said, impersonating his daughters. He would gently correct them each time. "You can call her 'Taylor.'"

The habit, Travis noted, was one they eventually had to "break." It took a little while.

The story landed on the podcast in the context of a broader conversation about what it is like to meet someone so famous that normal social conventions stop working. Travis had been talking about Tom Cruise, who attended the Kansas City Chiefs' season opener against the Denver Broncos — sitting next to Taylor Swift in the private box — and admitted that it had taken him a couple of encounters before he could comfortably call the actor "Tom" rather than "Tom Cruise." His nieces, it turns out, had the exact same problem with his wife.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married on July 3, making Swift the official aunt of Jason and Kylie Kelce's four daughters: Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett, and Finn. The girls served as flower girls at the wedding. "They're beautiful, they're incredible personalities. And Travis and Taylor love them," Jason told the Reno Gazette Journal. "It was an amazing day."

The flower girls, it is safe to assume, called her Taylor by then.

Swift had already established herself as a beloved presence in the girls' lives before the wedding. On a previous appearance on New Heights, Swift revealed that baking with her nieces had become one of her favorite things to do. "They love sprinkles," she said. "We put sprinkles in everything when we hang out." She described it as funfetti sourdough — a combination that perfectly encapsulates the energy of cooking with small children who have strong opinions about toppings.

The wedding itself was one of the most widely covered celebrity events of the summer. Swift and Kelce married on July 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with a reported 1,000 guests in attendance. Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony — having starred alongside Kelce in "Happy Gilmore 2" in 2025. Jason served as his brother's best man. Travis described the day on a subsequent podcast episode as "just so magical, man." He said they chose the venue specifically for its ability to feel both large-scale and intimate. "We wanted to do it somewhere where we could have a very intimate and genuine setting without a lot of distractions," he said. "MSG went above and beyond to give us that."

Swift had been part of the Kelce family's life for nearly three years by the time she walked down that aisle. She had gone from the woman Jason's daughters couldn't quite address by first name alone to the woman who makes funfetti sourdough with them and puts sprinkles in everything. Some transitions take longer than others. This one apparently only took a few gentle reminders and a lot of baked goods.

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