NFL player Travis Kelce and pop music star Taylor Swift announce engagement

Pop music superstar Taylor Swift and American football player Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Tuesday, setting the stage for a high-profile wedding featuring one of the world's biggest celebrity couples.

A joint post on their Instagram pages showed a photo of Kelce proposing on one knee in a flower-laden garden, followed by a shot of Swift displaying a large diamond ring.

"Your English teacher and gym teacher are getting married," the pair jokingly wrote in a caption, playing off the background music from Swift's hit song "So High School."

The couple, both 35 years of age, first went public with their relationship in 2023. They have often been seen together at Swift's hugely popular concerts and Kelce's NFL games with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Last year, Swift completed her acclaimed $2 billion "Eras" tour that shattered records and made her the world's biggest music star, as she performed 149 three-hour shows around the globe.

Tickets sold for exorbitant prices and drew in millions of fans, along with many more who were not able to get in, but still hung around to sing along outside the venues.

Swifties, as her fans are known, are currently waiting for her next album – "The Life of a Showgirl" – which is slated be released on October 3.

News of the release broke earlier this month during an episode of Kelce's "New Heights" podcast, which he hosts with his brother Jason, a former NFL player.

The last major release by 14-time Grammy winner Swift, "The Tortured Poets Department," came out in April 2024.