Adam Sandler only has a blank space for Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift when it comes to marriage advice.
While the comedian has been married to Jackie Sandler for over 22 years, he’s admittedly “not an advice giver” to his Happy Gilmore 2 costar and the “Karma” singer, who announced their engagement in August.
“He’s all good,” Adam exclusively told E! News at the Sept. 29 New York Film Festival premiere of Netflix’s Jay Kelly. “He loves her more than anything, just like I love my wife more than anything.”
Besides, Adam noted that the goal in any relationship is “to be happy together, be yourself together.”
“That’s where they’re at,” he added of Travis and Taylor, “and that’s where me and my girl are at.”
Indeed, Adam has been enchanted by the couple’s love story. In fact, he recently told Travis that “any time Taylor is laughing with you, my whole f–kin’ family is high-fiving.”
“You being together,” Adam gushed on the Aug. 28 episode of New Heights. “That photo of when you first started dating, my family was like, ‘Yes! Look how good they are together! He’s a gentleman! And she’s having so much fun with him!’”
Plus, Taylor holds a special place in the Saturday Night Live alum’s heart.
“What a girl,” effused Adam, who shares daughters Sadie, 19, and Sunny, 16, with his longtime wife. “She means so much to our house. The kids were little and we were listening to Taylor Swift—it was one of the first times that you listen to every song on the record.”
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And that’s how the 59-year-old became a Swiftie.
“I love listening to her in the car,” Adam continued. “I love what she has to say. Every message. Every melody. The production. What she meant to young girls, what she means to women, what she means to guys doing the right thing in life.”
For more about why Taylor and Travis’ relationship hits different, keep reading…
—Reporting by Nikaline McCarley
No. 6: He’s Family-Oriented
Like Taylor, who is close with her parents, particularly her mother Andrea, Travis hails from a tight-knit fam, including his parents Ed and Donna Kelce.
Donna became a beloved public figure as the first mother to have two sons playing against each other in a Super Bowl, when Travis faced off against his older brother, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, in the big game in February 2023.
“For all the stars to align and for them to get through high school and college and the pros. And for them to both play in the Pro Bowl and to play in the Super Bowl, and then for this to happen,” Donna told ET at the time. “This is just like a dream come true. I can’t express enough how special this is for the family and it’s just crazy.”
Donna, who was married to Ed for 25 years before they divorced, supported both of her sons by wearing a half-black, half-red Eagles and Chiefs jacket.
After the Super Bowl, which saw the Chiefs best the Eagles, Travis and Jason got emotional while reflecting on sharing the experience with Donna.
“The moment I saw mom is when I got really emotional,” Jason said on the brothers’ New Heights podcast. “It was so awesome…She was on top of the world for a week.”
“She was the heavyweight champ man,” Travis added. “She was on top of it, and she shined the whole time.”
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No. 7: He’s Super-Close With His Brother
Like Taylor and her younger brother Austin Swift, Travis has a special bond with his older brother Jason, who inspired him to play football.
In addition to their impressive careers as NFL players, Travis and Jason launched their podcast New Heights in September 2022, a project that has only strengthened their relationship (and their bank accounts).
“What this did was gave us a scheduled two to three hour window where we have to talk to each other and we have to talk about what we’re going through, throughout the week and throughout the games,” Travis told NBC Sports in February 2023. “It’s almost been like therapy, man.”
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No. 8: They Have a Mutual Friend
Sure, the pair technically never met until 2023, but there have been a few invisible strings tying them together.
Taylor and Travis both count Miles Teller as a friend, with the Top Gun: Maverick star and his wife Keleigh Sperry even being recruited by Taylor to star in the music video for “I Bet You Think About Me” off Red (Taylor’s Version) in 2021.
Travis, meanwhile, joined Miles and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes for golfing practice ahead of the American Century Championship in 2022.
Miles tweeted a photo of himself on the golf course with the athletes, writing, “Grip it and rip it.” Travis proved the bromance was real when he reposted the shot and added, “Back at it like we never left!!”
(Interestingly enough, Miles is a noted diehard Philadelphia Eagles fans, so perhaps he put in a word with Jason to broker an IRL meet-up between Travis and Taylor?)
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No. 9: The Squad Is Shipping
While Taylor attended the Sept. 24, 2023 game solo, she brought an entourage of celebrity friends with her when she attended the Chiefs’ match-up against the New York Jets at New Jersey’s Metlife Stadium on Oct. 1.
She was accompanied by BFFs Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and his friend Hugh Jackman, as well as Sophie Turner, Sabrina Carpenter andQueer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski.
While their attendance at the game spoke volumes, even more telling was Ryan following Travis on Instagram.
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No. 10: He Can Handle the Pressure
Not only has Travis played in four Super Bowls, winning three of them (NBD!), but he’s also hosted Saturday Night Live, so you know he can handle intense spotlight with ease.
That may seem trivial, but Taylor has penned several songs regarding her fear that her level of fame could prove to be too much for her romantic partner to handle. (See: “Peace” and “The Archer.”)
“It all depends who you’re with,” Taylor said in, “If they have a serious issue with it, I guess you’ll hide or whatever, but I don’t really like that, because it makes me feel like I’m running from the law or something. I don’t want to feel like a fugitive, like, ‘Oh my god, we’re having a relationship, better hide!’
“I feel like if you can be in a relationship and have it seem normal, that would be good.”
And in his WSJ interview, Travis proved he’s more than ready for the pressure that comes with being married to someone as powerful as Taylor.
“Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them…I’ve never dealt with it,” he said. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it.”
“The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life,” he added. “When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.”
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No. 11: They Support One Another
Further proving their love is worthy of a rom-com treatment, fans were swooning after a concertgoer captured video of Taylor running into Travis’ arms and exchanging a passionate kiss after performing in Argentina in November 2023. And that was after she changed the lyrics in Karma from “the guy on the screen” to “the guy on the Chiefs,” much to Travis’ surprise as he attended alongside her father, Scott Swift.
Turning out for one another’s stadium takeovers—Taylor attended 13 Chiefs games her first season with Travis, traveling straight from her Tokyo show to make the Super Bowl—is a show of how serious their relationship is.
“I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” Taylor told TIME of their public support. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”
And if her presence at the NFL games annoys you, well, Taylor can’t even be bothered to have bad blood with you.
“There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once,” she said. “I’m just there to support Travis. I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
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No. 12: His Birthday
Travis was born in—are you ready for it?—1989. Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.
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13. A Special Connection
Speaking of Killa Trav’s birthday, which falls on October 5, did you know he shares his with Taylor’s late grandmother Marjorie Finlay, the subject of her song “Marjorie” off of 2020’s evermore? If we didn’t know better, we’d think this is a sign…
She’s loved him three summers now, honey, and she’s going to get ’em all.
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