Before meeting Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce had dated approximately 50 women. This fact has left some of Taylor Swift’s fans concerned that Kelce may potentially play with her heart, just as he did with the other 50 women.
in 2016, Kelce starred in a short-lived E! dating show called Catching Kelce. I think that is also a football pun, but I’ve only ever tuned into a Super Bowl for Rihanna or Shakira, so I cannot say for sure.
The easiest way to think about it is as The Bachelor (With Sports). After an early mass elimination, the series looked pretty familiar, with group dates and weekly eliminations — except that the dates sometimes involved working out together. With each elimination, Kelce would banish the women back to their homes as if they would never ever be able to cross state lines again.
No, I’m not kidding.”I’m going to have to ask you to go back to Wyoming,” or wherever they were from was his kiss-off line.I’m going to have to ask you to go back to New York, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania or wherever else your private jet may take you.”
Oddly (let’s be honest, the bar for reality TV dudes is pretty low), Kelce comes across really well throughout the series. He’s goofy and kind — and way less self-serious than we typically imagine the dudes handing out roses on that *other* dating show to be.
It helped that the series didn’t promise an engagement or anything even near the usual reality TV stakes. Pretty sure there wasn’t even a cheesy promise ring!Basically, these women were competing for a pretty easy, breezy relationship with a hot, tall footballer who at that point had just signed an AU$71 million contract extension.
How could you NOT be down?But — and I’m sure you’ll be surprised to learn this — after featuring 50 women from 50 different American states, Kelce unfortunately did not find true love on the show, marking the one and only instance of a reality dating show ending unsatisfactory.He dated his chosen winner, Maya from Kentucky, for about eight months before they split.
