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Travis Kelce’s ex-girlfriend, Kayla Nicole, referenced his romance with Taylor Swift in a new Super Bowl commercial.
The influencer and podcaster, 34, appeared alongside Tiffany Haddish and the Los Angeles Clippers’ Ben Simmons in a big game spot for betting app Sleeper. The ad featured Haddish and Simmons as “ex-communicators” vowing to help clients get over “high-profile relationships.”
Dubbing themselves “emotional injury specialists,” Haddish and Simmons said, “We will confront your ex so you don’t have to.”
The clip then jumped to testimonials from celebrities including Nicole, Cardi B’s ex Offset and Love Island USA’s Ace Greene, who were enlisted to attest to the duo’s services. It seems results were mixed.
“Don’t get me started on these two. They have no idea what they’re doing. At all,” Nicole said, while a name card described her as the “ex of a certain NFL player.”
Later in the clip, Nicole said, “Simmons & Haddish promised me they could put an end to this whole ex-girlfriend fiasco quickly.”
The camera then cut to Simmons, who responded, “That doesn’t sound right.”
“Rapidly,” Nicole retorted.
Simmons replied, “That’s not what I said.”
“OK, pronto,” Nicole said.
Simmons then dropped a reference to Kelce’s now-fiancée, telling Nicole, “I said swiftly. Why is that so hard to remember?”
Nicole and Kelce, 36, dated on and off from 2017 to 2022. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end moved on with Swift, also 36, the following year, and the couple announced their engagement in August 2025.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the couple captioned a joint Instagram post showing Kelce getting down on one knee and proposing to Swift.
Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, later shared the proposal took place two weeks before the stars announced their engagement publicly.
“Travis actually did the proposal, oh, maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago,” Ed told ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland at the time. “He was going to put it off till this week … but he was going to put her off till this week to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big, special event.”
Ed continued, “And I told him repeatedly, you know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.”
During an October 2025 appearance on The Graham Norton Show in the U.K., Swift said Kelce did a great job with his sweet proposal.
“He really crushed it in surprising me. While we were talking on his podcast, he had a complete garden built out the back of his house to propose in,” she said. “He went all out — 10 out of 10.”
Swift sang her fiancé’s praises during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that same month.
“He’s just my favorite person I’ve ever met — no offense to everyone else. But the fact that this is the person that I get to hang out with every day forever … that’s the whole thing of it,” she said. “You look at [the ring] and you’re like, ‘I get to hang out with him forever,’ and this represents that.”
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