Taylor Swift had a familiar face next to her at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. Karlie Kloss sat beside her as the Kansas City Chiefs played the New York Jets, and fans who remember their old friendship noticed right away.
The two watched the game from a private suite in Kansas City. Her mum Andrea and her dad Scott were there too, and so was Travis Kelce’s mother, Donna Kelce.
A big day for Travis Kelce
Swift, 36, came to cheer on her husband. Kelce, the Chiefs tight end, was playing his 200th game in the NFL, so the people in that suite had a good reason to be there.
Best friends in the 2010s
Swift and Kloss used to be one of the best known celebrity friendships around. During Swift’s 1989 era the two were seen together all the time, and Kloss was one of the famous faces in the 2015 music video for “Bad Blood”.
Then the photos of them together got rare. Rumours started that the friendship had cooled. Neither woman ever said publicly that they had fallen out, but the talk did not go away for years.
The wedding that changed the story
Things looked different this summer. Swift married Kelce in July at Madison Square Garden in New York, and Kloss was one of the guests, together with her husband, Joshua Kushner.
On 28 July, Kloss was asked about the wedding in a TV interview. She said she tries to protect her friends’ privacy. Then she added that Swift and Kelce are “an amazing couple” and that she is “so happy for them.”
Sunday’s game took it one step further. This time the two were side by side in public, at a game that meant a lot to Swift’s husband, with both families close by.
Our take
Friendships change. People get busy or move away, and sometimes the rest of the world reads too much into it. We only know what the photos show here: two old friends in the same suite, cheering for the same team on a big day.
After years of guessing from fans, that is a sweet thing to see. It also makes us wonder how many other “feuds” were just two busy people who did not see each other for a while.
Do you have an old friend you would love to reconnect with? Tell us in the comments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Taylor Swift at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards by Glenn Francis (CC BY-SA 4.0); Karlie Kloss in 2019 by Erik Drost (CC BY 2.0); Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City by Kj1595 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Travis Kelce in 2021 by Erik Drost (CC BY 2.0).
