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- Taylor Swift told U.K. chat show host Graham Norton that Travis Kelce ‘crushed’ his wedding proposal
- When asked if she would reveal more about their wedding plans, Swift said simply, “You’ll know”
- Swift added that Kelce’s favorite track on her new album The Life of a Showgirl is “Opalite”
Taylor Swift is celebrating her fiancé, Travis Kelce.
Speaking on U.K. chat show The Graham Norton Show on Friday, Oct. 3, to promote her new album The Life of a Showgirl, the multi-Grammy winner opened up about the moment Kelce, 35, proposed to her over the summer.
“He really crushed it when it came to surprising me,” Swift, 35, told Norton about Kelce, who is referenced multiple times in her new album. “We had actually filmed a podcast episode — he has a podcast called New Heights — so we filmed the podcast for about three or four hours … and meanwhile behind his house, he was having the whole back garden turned into this.”
She continued, “And one of the things that he put in there, very strategically, was a wall of hedges that weren’t there before. And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in bushes that had not previously been there.”
“He went all out – 10 out of 10,” Swift added in her first TV appearance since Kelce’s proposal, during which she wore a black and bejeweled mini dress teamed with her sparkling engagement ring.
When asked if she would reveal more about their wedding plans, Swift, who announced her engagement on Aug. 26, said simply, “You’ll know.”
“I want to do the album stuff first, and the wedding is what happens after in terms of planning. I think it will be fun to plan,” she added.
Telling more about The Life of a Showgirl, Swift revealed that she leaned on her song-writing skills to keep her artistically fueled up during her lengthy Eras Tour — something she previously revealed on Kelce’s podcast.
“I was physically exhausted — sick and worn down — so to spark me up, I had the album as a secret passion project behind the scenes,” Swift told Norton. “It stopped me hitting a wall.”
She also revealed that The Life of a Showgirl is less introspective than some of her previous albums. The record is Swift’s 12th album and was released at midnight on Friday, Oct. 3.
“In recent years, I have a different perspective and like storytelling at a little bit of a distance, so it isn’t like doing a complete autopsy of myself,” she told Norton.
“I think my wheelhouse is bigger now,” Swift added about her development as an artist. “I feel I can do anything now while running in heels. I am confident to write higher choruses, jump an octave, and do falsetto stuff. I have more confidence after the tour.”
Swift also revealed that her dad, Scott, is also a big fan of one song in particular — and that he shares this love with Kelce.
“My dad is very excited about ‘Opalite,’ and it is Travis’ favorite,” she said about the third song on The Life of a Showgirl.
“Growing opals in a lab is an interesting metaphor for making your own happiness; to rise above the trials and tribulations and be happy you did things on your terms,” she added.
The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC1 and the BBC iPlayer at 5.40 ET. The episode also features Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Domhnall Gleeson and Lewis Capaldi.