Travis Kelce Accused Of Appearing Like A ‘Dumb Pet’ Subsequent To Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift lately made her debut podcast look on her boyfriend Travis Kelce‘s “New Heights” present, the place she introduced her twelfth studio album.

On the podcast, the NFL star was seemingly throughout his girlfriend as he sat subsequent to her, praising the “Dangerous Blood” hitmaker for utilizing “large” phrases and being the “greatest songwriter on the planet.”

Nonetheless, followers have now slammed the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish for appearing like a “dumb pet,” whereas others prompt Taylor Swift was too good for Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason Kelce.

Swift joined her boyfriend Kelce on the Wednesday episode of “New Heights” podcast, the place she revealed the tracklist for her upcoming album “The Life Of A Showgirl,” which she mentioned would drop on October 3.

The lovebirds seemed so smitten with one another as they took turns to share some insights about their relationship. At some factors, they unabashedly flaunted some main PDA, with Swift sustaining a brilliant grin all through.

In the course of the present, the “Clean House” singer talked about a wide range of topics like numerology and Shakespeare together with her boyfriend and his brother, Jason.

Kelce, seemingly in awe of the Grammy winner, praised her for utilizing “large phrases” after she mentioned the time period “exoteric,” prompting Swift to make clear that he truly is aware of what the phrase means earlier than late calling the soccer participant “good-looking.”

Nonetheless, not all viewers have been notably happy with how the pair behaved, with many accusing Kelce of appearing “dumb.”

Some Web customers took to social media to accuse Swift of treating Kelce like a baby or, as one commenter colorfully put it, a “dumb pet.”

“That is giving me child speaking to my cat. ‘Oh, you are so silly! You are so cute and silly! Only a tiny mind cell! Such a cute, silly child!” a Reddit consumer wrote.

“It is giving him being gradual, and her treating him like a dumb pet,” another person declared, whereas one other in contrast her to a “my know-it-all pal” they’d in center college who “obtained a thesaurus for Christmas at 12 and all of a sudden found four-syllable phrases that she would simply inject into each sentence doable.”

“I used to be attempting to not scratch my eyes out when [Jason] requested what numerology was…you’ll be able to’t like…critically suppose for 2 seconds at what which may need to do with?? Actually? There may be actually no means,” one other consumer penned.

Amid the criticism, others simply thought Swift was too good for Kelce, and that the NFL star was simply being a “simp” for her.

“Travis Kelce is definitely King of the Himbos and simps, and I hope he turns into a task mannequin for each dumb white man,” one consumer wrote.

One other added, “She is simply sooooo a lot smarter, like extremely smarter than them, and I do not understand how she stands hanging out with them for greater than 38 seconds at a time bc she’s needed to clarify herself about 113 occasions this entire present.”

A 3rd particular person wrote on X, “Travis actually out right here simping over vocabulary.”

Throughout their dialogue, Swift opened up on how she drew inspiration from Shakespeare with the opening music of her album. The singer then revealed that she needed to give Kelce a rundown on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, as a result of he had by no means learn it earlier than.

She revealed that the primary monitor is titled “The Destiny Of Ophelia,” with “Ophelia” being a personality from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

When she introduced the identify of the primary monitor, Kelce requested his brother, “Have you learnt what Destiny of Ophelia is?” The singer then checked out her boyfriend whereas smiling and requested, “You wish to discuss Hamlet?”

“I do not wish to get Jason all riled up,” Kelce replied. Swift then advised Jason that her boyfriend “may not have learn Hamlet” however that she “defined it to him.”

“Do not inform my center college English trainer I did not learn it. As a result of I undoubtedly was imagined to,” the Tremendous Bowl winner joked.

After Jason laughed at him, the tight finish replied, “It is alright, I watched ‘The Lion King.'”

“See, he is aware of what ‘Hamlet’ is,” Swift excitedly chimed in, referencing how the play impressed the Disney animated musical.

Elsewhere on the present, Swift shared perception into what their first date seemed like, applauding Kelce for not being “judgmental.”

The couple have been collectively since 2023, and have remained very public supporters of one another, with Swift usually attending his video games whereas the athlete stops by at her exhibits.

Nonetheless, issues have been seemingly awkward on their first date as Swift admits she did not know something about soccer.

“On our first date, I legitimately requested him what it was like when the Chiefs performed the Eagles within the Tremendous Bowl, and he seemed throughout the sector throughout the road of scrimmage and noticed his brother standing on the opposite… 5 toes in entrance of him on the sector,” she recalled.

Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs beforehand confronted the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022 when his brother Jason was nonetheless on the crew earlier than he in the end retired.

“[Travis] did not even have a look at me. Like, I now know what an insane query that was,” Swift mentioned, referencing her query. “He was like, ‘Really, I am on the offense and my brother’s on the offense, and I am solely on the sector concurrently the protection.’ I believed everybody was on the sector on the identical time.”