Travis Michael Kelce is an American football player. He plays in the tight end position for the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football Association (NFL).Â
Born on October 5, 1989, the multi-sport athlete played as a quarterback for the Tigers in high school and continued playing football after accepting a scholarship from the University of Cincinnati. Despite a one-year suspension during the 2010 season due to a failed drug test, Kelce returned stronger and more focused, breaking his personal records in the sport. He went on to earn his first-team all-conference honors and won the College Football Performance Awards Tight End of the Year in 2013.Â
Kelce began his professional career in American football with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013 for a four-year contract. He was coached by his older brother Jason Kelceâs coach, Andy Reid. Jason plays center for the Philadelphia Eagles and is one of the best center players in the NFL.
Travis also dabbled in reality TV, starring in a dating show called Catching Kelce, in which 50 young women attempted to win his heart. The show premiered on E! Entertainment Television in 2016. Maya Benberry, a German-born actress, won the show, and Kelceâs heart. The two dated for a period of 8 months, breaking up in early 2017.
Shortly after his break up with Benberry in 2017, Travis Kelce began dating sports journalist Kayla Nicole. Formerly, Kayla Brown, she hails from Los Angeles, California, but has a West Indian origin. Born on November 1, 1991, Kayla is the second child of Roosevelt Brown and Robin Curry.Â
She majored in journalism from Pepperdine University in Malibu. Apart from hosting for the NBA, BET, Global Grind, HotNewHipHop, XONecole, All Def Digital, as well as BallisLifeâs Heat Check, she has also been a courtside reporter for the Lakers in NBA.Â
Kayla also works for Fashion Reverie, a fashion magazine, and her own business niche, Kayla Nicole TV. She advertises and models for sportswear on her Instagram @iamkaylanicole, where she has over 475.3k followers.Â
Kayla Nicole also holds numerous beauty pageant titles, such as Top 20 Miss CA 2013, First Runner Up Miss Malibu 2013, Top 10 Miss CA USA 2012, 2nd Runner-up in Miss Southern Coast Regional 2012, and also Third Runner Up Miss Malibu 2012.
Travis Kelce and Kayla Nicole began dating in 2017, shortly after Kelece broke up with Maya Benberry, the winner of his reality dating show - Catching Kelce. Kayla and Kelce have been together since then. In August 2020, the couple split for a brief period. Kayla rubbished rumors of Travisâ infidelity as the reason for the split. The two seemed to have taken a few months off from their relationship, during which Nicole deleted pictures of the two from her social media posts, but reunited later in the year. She was spotted at a Chiefsâ game in November 2020, cheering her beau in the teamâs colors, confirming their relationship status.
Kayla Nicole turned 29 on November 1 last year. With a height of 5â10, she is a tall and well-endowed woman.Â
Her modeling business and career working as a sport and entertainment journalist have earned her a net worth of $500,000.
Kayla Nicole began her career at Malibu Surfside News, a weekly community newspaper, as an assistant writer. She worked for many famous entertainment magazines such as TMZ, Oprah Winfrey Network and Asylum Media as a production assistant, Digital Technology and Newsdesk intern. Currently, she works as a Production Assistant at CBS Radio in New York.
Travis Kelce and Kayla Nicole have been dating for over three years, since 2017. They have not shared any news of a wedding or engagement any time soon, much to the disappointment of their fans.
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