Travis Kelce is getting candid about balancing the NFL together with his burgeoning leisure profession, telling GQ in a new cover story that the “previous two years” of his soccer efficiency “haven’t been to my customary.”
Reflecting on his group, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, shedding the Tremendous Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles in February, Kelce stated: “I believe it might need slipped somewhat bit as a result of I did have somewhat bit extra focus in making an attempt to set myself up. And alternatives got here up the place I used to be excited to enterprise into a brand new world of performing and being an entertainer.”
Certainly, Kelce simply appeared in “Glad Gilmore 2” alongside Adam Sandler and had a task in Ryan Murphy’s “Grotesquerie” collection final yr. He’s additionally began a internet hosting gig for Amazon’s “Are You Smarter Than a Superstar?” and hosted “Saturday Night time Dwell” in 2023.
“I don’t say this as ‘I shouldn’t have carried out it,’” Kelce continued of his leisure ventures. “I’m simply saying that my work ethic is such that I’ve a lot satisfaction in how I do issues that I by no means need the product to tail off, and I really feel like these previous two years haven’t been to my customary.”
He added, “I simply have such a motivation to point out up this yr for my guys.”
As for his future in showbiz, Kelce stated: “I don’t essentially know if I’ll take it and run with it after I’m carried out enjoying. However I do know that I need to keep across the soccer world as a occupation after which dabble in different areas as nicely.”
Kelce’s relationship with pop star Taylor Swift has additionally drawn important media consideration, with the singer exhibiting as much as most of the Chiefs’ video games and even announcing her new album on Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast on Monday. Regardless of all of the eyes on them, Kelce advised GQ: “Each time I’m along with her, we’re simply common individuals.”
“When there’s not a digicam on us, we’re simply two individuals which are in love,” he continued. “It may be perceived as one thing else due to how a lot it’s talked about and the way a lot we’re tracked every time we do exit, however I’d say that it’s as regular of…. It occurred very organically though from a media standpoint it was being tracked. It nonetheless occurred very organically.”
Kelce added, “Nothing I’ve ever carried out has been a managed, organized course of. Once I say it was so natural, we fell in love simply based mostly off the individuals we have been sitting in a room along with. We’re two fun-loving individuals who have the morals to understand everybody for who they’re. We share all these values. It type of simply took the fuck off.”
Learn Kelce’s full GQ cover story right here.
