Taylor Swift’s Sports-Loving Cousin Claims to Be Catalyst for ‘Love Connection’ Between Her and Travis Kelce

Danny Frye III, Taylor Swift’s second cousin, opened up about his role in her romance with Travis Kelce

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are seen leaving the SNL after party on October 15, 2023 in New York, New York.MEGA/GC Images via Getty Images
Taylor Swift’s cousin says that he helped spark the “love connection” between the pop superstar and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

“Funny thing is, a lot of people have been trying to figure out who I am lately,” Swift’s second cousin, dirt track racer Danny Frye III, told FloRacing TV on Saturday.

“It’s been an interesting month or so. I’ve been going to a few Chiefs games. You know, made a love connection between her and Travis Kelce, so it’s been quite the 34 years that [Taylor and I have] had together.”

Frye, who has been spotted attending Chiefs games in a private box with Swift, explained that they “grew up pretty close.”

Swift and Kelce have been dating since summer 2023. “This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift told Time last month. “We started hanging out right after that … By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple.”

“There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said], ‘Yo! Did you know he was coming?’ I had somebody playing Cupid,” Kelce told WSJ Magazine in November. “She [later] told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.”