While Swifties were busy digging for all the Easter Eggs on Taylor Swift‘s just-released 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Friday morning (Oct. 3), the singer dropped by the U.K.’s Graham Norton Show to chat up the LP, and, of course, her summer engagement to Travis Kelce.
In her first TV appearance since the August proposal heard ’round the world, Swift, 35, told Norton that Chiefs tight end Kelce, “really crushed it in surprising me,” in speaking of the instantly iconic special moment caught in a photo of the NFL star down on his knee asking for Taylor’s hand in the middle of a forest of flowers.
According to People, Swift — wearing a black mini dress with a bejeweled halter neckline — told Norton that while the couple were chatting on Kelce’s New Heights podcast, the baller “had a complete garden built out the back of his house to propose in.” And, not for nothing, Swift said that Kelce’s proposal was a big swing that totally landed. “He went all out — 10 out of 10” she said, subtly flashing the impressive engagement ring during the taping where she appeared alongside actors Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and Domhnall Gleeson and fellow singer Lewis Capaldi.
Cagey as ever, Swift kept any wedding plans close to the vest, saying “you’ll know,” when she has something to say about the blessed event. “I want to do the album stuff first, and the wedding is what happens after in terms of planning. I think it will be fun to plan,” she said, with People describing her vintage-style ring as having a “massive old mine brilliant cut diamond, a rectangle-cut diamond,” which is estimated by one expert to be around 7-10 carats in a bezel setting.
As she noted on Kelce’s New Heights earlier this summer, Swift reiterated that recording Showgirl in the midst of her grueling, record-setting Eras Tour was a way to keep her inspired. “I was physically exhausted — sick and worn down — so to spark me up, I had the album as a secret passion project behind the scenes,” Swift said of her off-tour flights to work with producers Max Martin and Shellback during the European leg of her summer 2024 tour. “It stopped me hitting a wall.”
Swift also told Norton that the new album is not as introspective as her recent LPs, saying that in recent years she’s had a “different perspective and like storytelling at a little bit of a distance, so it isn’t like doing a complete autopsy of myself.” Alluding to some growth as an artist, the singer added that her “wheelhouse is bigger now… I feel I can do anything now while running in heels. I am confident to write higher choruses, jump an octave, and do falsetto stuff. I have more confidence after the tour.”
Swift will be back on TV on Monday night (Oct. 6) when she stops by The Tonight Show and then again on Wednesday night (Oct. 8), when she’ll be the only guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
