“Taylor Swift Drops Bombshell: Travis Kelce Secretly Held Onto Engagement Ring for ‘a Really Long Time’ Before Proposal—Was She Waiting? What Took Him So Long? Inside the Hidden Drama, Private Tears, and the Moment That Changed Everything Forever!”

Swift discussed her engagement to NFL star Kelce on ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’ on Monday, Oct. 6

Taylor Swift on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon;’ Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement.Credit : NBC; Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift is spilling more details about her engagement and that ring!

While appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Monday, Oct. 6, the Life of a Showgirl musician, 35, revealed that her fiancé Travis Kelce had her engagement ring for “a really long time” before he popped the question to her.

When host Jimmy Fallon asked Swift if Kelce, 36, “put a lot of work into” choosing her engagement ring, she replied, “He did and he had it for a really long time before he gave it to me, too.”

“He customized [the ring] and designed it with this amazing jeweler who he made it with,” explained Swift of her dazzling engagement ring. Fallon, 51, added in response, “It’s gorgeous — even the sides are beautiful!”

“I know! I look at it constantly, like it doesn’t feel in any way normal for me,” said Swift, adding of Kelce, “I’m just like, man, woah. But it’s more than that. 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. You look at it and you’re like, ‘I’m going to hang out with him forever,’ and this represents that.”

Taylor Swift’s engagement ring.The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Fallon then asked the pop superstar if it was true that Kelce popped the question after they recorded the record-breaking episode of his podcast, New Heights, together, during which her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, was announced.

“Yeah. So basically, I think for Travis, the podcast was a distraction, sort of ruse to keep me not looking out the windows of the house,” Swift said, before going on to break down the proposal and reveal how Kelce had put black-out drapes on every window of his house for the recording while the engagement backdrop was set up in his backyard.

“I was like, he is so serious about this, and I really appreciate that,” she continued of the podcast recording. “Afterward I kind of realized, he’s walking around sort of nervous about the podcast, he’s like, ‘My heart is racing, I know how much this means to you, I really eant this to be what you hoped it would be,’ because we’d been talking about doing the podcast and announcing the album. He’s like, ‘My heart is racing,’ and I’ve never seen this dude nervous, ever. He’s profesisonally not a nervous person.”

“Of course he’s not nervous about the podcast!” Fallon chimed in. “He’s like, ‘I wonder what questions I’m going to ask you?’ I know, I know one question I’m going to ask, I know the big one, but I can’t get to that yet!” Fallon added excitedly, jumping up from his desk.

Taylor Swift shows Jimmy Fallon her engagement ring.The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Swift then shared how Kelce asked her if she wanted to walk around the backyard with a glass of wine.

“I’m like, ‘I’m always gonna want to do that.’ Then I realized exactly why all of the windows were curtained and why he was nervous and it was the best possible case scenario,” she said.

Host Fallon then held up a photo from the pair’s floral-filled engagement.

“Look at that!” said Swift. “That’s what he was turning the backyard into, like a secret garden oasis.”

Swift and Kelce announcing their engagement on Aug. 26, 13 days after the podcast episode was released. The couple first started dating in 2023.

Sticking to the topic of weddings, Swift also discussed on the show her time attending her longtime friend Selena Gomez’s recent wedding to music producer Benny Blanco.

“I got to see her be the most elegant, gorgeous — not only bride but just — vision that I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen anything so beautiful as her on her wedding day,” Swift said of the Sept. 27 nuptials.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in New York City in December 2024.XNY/Star Max/GC Images

Swift also shared that in her speech to Gomez at the wedding, she didn’t mention her engagement at all to keep the focus strictly on the bride.

“I actually made a point not to mention anything about my engagement,” she said. “No one wants you to be like, ‘Hey, I know this is your wedding day but—’” with a raised hand showing off her ring. “I was like, ‘Don’t mention it.’”

Swift said in her speech that she instead discussed meeting Gomez for the first time in 2008.

“I did do some light teasing about the way we used to dress in the year 2008 — the year that we met,” she said. “…So I talked a little bit about 2008, how happy I am for her, how it’s been beautiful to get to be a part of her life. But I did not make it about me.”