Taylor Swift must have heard her fans’ cries: “Come Back…Be Here.”
The global pop icon — who’s in the middle of headlining the highest-grossing concert tour of all time and helming a multi-billion-dollar brand — missed two of boyfriend Travis Kelce’s NFL Kansas City Chiefs games on Sept. 22 and 29, and the rumor mill churned.
Blame the debunked “breakup contract” — that claimed she and Kelce planned to announce their breakup on Sept. 28 — for the speculation. The gossip increased after Swift missed Kelce’s Oct. 5 birthday event. Reports saying Swift was merely preparing for the final leg of her “Eras Tour” and dealing with security concerns, were ignored.
But Swift’s no longer MIA. She’s back and she’s everywhere — with Kelce. Here’s what she’s been up to, including the announcement of new merch.
Swift announces her 1st book, new vinyl
The “Fortnight” singer will commemorate her record-setting tour with a new book, she announced on Oct. 15.
The Official Taylor Swift Eras Tour Book is a 256-page retrospective with personal reflections and over 500 images, including never-before-seen pix. In Swift’s announcement, she called the tour, which begins its final leg on Oct. 18, “the most wondrous experience.” The book retails for $40 and goes on sale exclusively at Target stores on Nov. 29.
In addition to the book, Swift is also releasing her album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology on vinyl and CD for the first time. The album, which had previously only been available digitally, has 31 songs and four bonus acoustic tracks and comes with a never-before-seen 12×12-inch poster of Swift. That will also be sold exclusively at Target.
Swift and Kelce’s baseball date
It was an evening of love and baseball for the performer and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end on Oct. 14. They watched Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Cleveland Guardians and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium — a venue Swift packed in 2022 when she delivered her NYU graduation speech. Swift and the Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? host dressed alike for their evening out and left hand in hand.
Back-to-back Big Apple dinner dates
Over the weekend, cooking was not on the menu for Swift and Kelce as they spent the weekend in Manhattan, where Swift owns a $50 million compound. On Oct. 11, the couple dined at the Corner Store, a restaurant serving upscale American food, with friends Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
The next night, on Oct. 12, it was just the two of them for dinner at Torrisi, an Italian restaurant.
Reunited in Kansas City
Their relationship reunion tour started when Swift, after sitting out two weeks of Chiefs games, arrived at Arrowhead Stadium on Oct. 7 to watch Kelce’s team play the New Orleans Saints. The couple kissed after Kelce’s victory, and Swift even made a cameo in fellow Chiefs WAG Chariah Gordon’s video.
What’s ahead?
Swift’s tour resumes on Friday with nine dates remaining, including Miami, New Orleans and Indianapolis, through Nov. 3. Then she’ll head up north to Canada for nine shows in Toronto and Vancouver, where the tour officially ends on Dec. 8. After that, it’s a wrap — in time for the holidays and the NFL postseason.
After that? Fans are still awaiting two rereleases, of Taylor Swift and Reputation (Taylor’s Version), and we don’t expect it will be too long before she drops another album of new music. Not that we’d blame her if she took a long break; it seems she can’t go two weeks out of the spotlight without rumors starting up again.
