Before Travis Kelce struck up a high profile romance with singer Taylor Swift, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end was in a relationship with content creator Kayla Nicole.
Nicole and Kelce starting dating in 2017. The tight end then revealing in a 2023 interview with The Pivot that the two had split.
In addition to her career as a sports reporter, Nicole has also made a splash on social media as a fashion influencer with over 750,000 followers on Instagram. She also has her own YouTube channel and has developed a fitness brand.
Here’s what to know about Nicole.
How long did Travis Kelce and Kayla Nicole date?
The couple began dating in 2017, one year after Kelce’s reality dating show, “Catching Kelce,” aired on “E!” They made their red carpet debut at the ESPY Awards in July 2018.
moved on from athletes.
“I’ll never say never, but I fully, wholeheartedly believe that I am out of the athlete stage,” she told hosts Winter Blanco and Chy Fontenette.
Nicole continued, “I do think that I am attracted to men in positions of power and I also think that those types of men are attracted to me.”
She noted she’s specifically interested in dating an “executive of a record label” or a “movie producer” to still attend the sporting events without engaging with the athletes.
“Let date night be courtside at the Laker game, that’s my kind of guy,” she added.
Kayla Nicole stays in touch with NFL WAGS
Though her time as a WAG might have come to a close, she still keeps in touch with some people in the sports romance world.
When her ex’s sister-in-law, Kylie Kelce, shared on Instagram March 14 that her dog passed away, Nicole responded with a sweet comment.
“Winnie girl. What a sweet life she lived,” she wrote with a black heart.
Ahead of Super Bowl 58 in February, People reported that Nicole spent a night out with the wives of San Francisco 49ers players, per her social media.
Nicole reportedly stepped out with Stephanie Toilolo, wife of 49ers tight end Levine Toilolo, as well as Claire Kittle, wife of the team’s tight end George Kittle, and Kristin Juszczyk, wife of fullback Kyle Juszczyk.
In September 2023 — the same month Swift first attended a Chiefs game for Kelce — Nicole unfollowed Brittany and Patrick Mahomes, quarterback for the Kansas City team, on Instagram. She confirmed and explained the public move in an October interview with People.
“The reality is I know these people in real life. And so, in real life, I’ve communicated to these people why I’ve had to publicly make the decisions that I made,” she said.
She explained that people compared the breakup between her and Kelce to a light switch that “you turn it on and off and everything goes dead and black and you don’t ever speak to anyone ever again.” However, she said moving on like that hasn’t been the case.
“That’s a lot of history and friendship there, that doesn’t change overnight,” Nicole added. “But publicly, because things are happening so quickly and so publicly, I have to protect myself. That’s really all that is. The love is still there.”
