Travis Kelce hit with question about Taylor Swift’s famous ex

Taylor Swift’s boyfriend has been praised by her fans after expertly handling a question about her celeb ex, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Look what they made him do.

Swifties are applauding Travis Kelce for how he responded when Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal was mentioned on the Bussin’ With the Boys podcast.

The actor, 43, came up during Monday’s episode when a co-host called Karma one of his favourite Swift songs — but didn’t know who the 2022 track was written about, reports The New York Post’s Page Six.

“Karma is Gyllenhaal, right?” Will Compton asked. “Was it Jake? Am I wrong?”

Kelce, 34, sidestepped the question and simply asked, “What happened?”

The NFL star laughed as the show’s other host, Taylor Lewan, went on to school Compton about the song’s lyric calling karma “the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me”.

Compton asked whether the line used to reference “the guy on the screen” — as Swift sang in the album version while dating ex Joe Alwyn.

Kelce scratched his leg and replied, “It was,” with fans convinced he shaded the Kinds of Kindness star, 33, with his emphasis on “was”.

Kelce (right) joined Swift on stage in London recently. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Swifties praised Kelce via Twitter/X for “the way he handled that nonsense,” since “saying Gyllenhaal in front of him is CRAZY.”

One fan wrote that Kelce’s responses sent them into “orbit,” while others joked that they needed “it was.” on a T-shirt.

Another social media user added, “Listen, if Travis wasn’t made for this … This life ain’t real. He handled the whole bit like a champ”.

Swift first made the Karma lyric change during a November 2023 show in Buenos Aires and has continued to swap the line out to honour Kelce.

The couple is enjoying a very high-profile romance. Picture: Gotham/GC Images

Jake Gyllenhaal. Picture: Manny Carabel/Getty Images

When she performed the song during a London Eras Tour show on Saturday, the tight end celebrated by high-fiving a fellow audience member.

Kelce began dating the pop star in the summer of 2023, with the duo going public that September as Swift began attending his games.

The Catching Kelce TV seriesstar gushed on Monday about falling for how “grounded” and “self-aware” the Grammy winner is.

Prior to their romance, Swift had a fling with the 1975 frontman Matty Healy in the wake of her and Alwyn’s April 2023 break-up after six years together.

Alwyn spoke about their “difficult” public split for the first time in an interview with UK newspaper TheTimes published earlier this month.

“There is always going to be a gap between what is known and what is said,” he said. “I have made my peace with that”.

As for Swift’s relationship with Gyllenhaal, the former couple’s short-lived union took place in late 2010.

The songwriter seemingly sings about it in All Too Well, and after the tune was re-released as a 10-minute version in 2021, Gyllenhaal blasted “unruly” fans in an Esquire magazine profile.

The Nightcrawler star, who has been dating model Jeanne Cadieu since 2018, implied that Swift has a “responsibility” to keep her supporters “civil and not allow for cyber-bullying”.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.