Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Announce Engagement

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.

Swift announced she planned to wed the NFL player in a Tuesday Instagram post, which featured photos of the couple, who are both 35.

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"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," the caption read, accompanied by an emoji of a dynamite stick.

The five-photo post included some images of Swift wearing an engagement ring, which Kelce designed with Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry. The stone is an "Old Mine brilliant cut," People reported.

Swift showed off the ring while wearing a black-and-white stripped Ralph Lauren dress that sold out moments after the proposal post, TMZ reported.

The couple's plan to wed marks an apex in a courtship that for two years has fascinated people around the world, especially Swifties — the pop star’s enormous and ardent fan base.

Kelce, a star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and a Super Bowl champion, saw his fame catapult to new levels after he met Swift. Their relationship was documented in countless shots of Swift celebrating at Chiefs games and fan videos of Kelce dancing along at Swift’s Eras concert tour as it traveled the globe.

The couple's engagement announcement comes after Swift earlier this month announced she will be releasing her 12th album (not counting the "Taylor's Version" releases) on Oct. 3.

Swift announced the album, "The Life of a Showgirl," on an appearance on "New Heights," the podcast Kelce hosts with his brother Jason Kelce. On Tuesday, Guinness World Records announced the 1.3 million people who tuned into the Aug. 13 live show helped the episode win the record for "most concurrent views for a podcast on YouTube."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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