Donna Kelce Shares Her Emotional Reaction to Taylor Swift's Appearance on Son Travis' Podcast: 'It Was Very Loving' (Exclusive)

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Donna Kelce connected Aug. 24, 2025; Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift connected nan Aug. 13 section of nan ‘New Heights’ podcast. Credit :

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NEED TO KNOW

  • Donna Kelce exclusively told PEOPLE her honorable sentiment astir nan New Heights podcast section featuring Taylor Swift
  • The mother of Travis and Jason Kelce described nan podcast arsenic “eventful” during nan Aug. 24 reddish carpet premiere for ESPN’s The Kingdom docuseries, which chronicles nan Kansas City Chiefs’ bequest and 2024 season
  • “It was authentic. It was conscionable thing I deliberation everybody was thrilled to see, and it was a very loving podcast,” Donna says

Donna Kelce is surviving nan engaged life of a shot mom!

The 72-year-old mother of Kansas City Chiefs prima Travis Kelce and NFL alum Jason Kelce has not had a shortage of things to watch this month.

At nan reddish carpet premiere for ESPN’s The Kingdom docuseries connected Sunday, Aug. 24, Donna exclusively told PEOPLE that she watched her sons’ New Heights podcast episode featuring Travis’ superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift.

“I did watch nan podcast … and I deliberation it was conscionable really, really eventful,” Donna tells PEOPLE of nan Aug. 13 section successful which Swift, 35, revealed nan medium creation for her 12th workplace album, The Life of a Showgirl, kissed her boyfriend, shared her “obsession” pinch baking sourdough breadstuff and teared up erstwhile talking astir regaining nan authorities to her music.

“It was authentic. It was conscionable thing I deliberation everybody was thrilled to see, and it was a very loving podcast,” Donna adds.

Taylor Swift and Donna Kelce cheering astatine a Chiefs crippled connected Jan. 26, 2025.

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Swift’s New Heights episode pinch Travis, 35, and Jason, 37, has attracted much than 20 cardinal views, surpassing Jason’s woman Kylie Kelce’s episode arsenic nan most-viewed New Heights section ever.

At Sunday’s The Kingdom premiere, Ed Kelce, nan Kelce patriarch, besides weighed successful connected nan podcast episode. “Oh, it was good. It was awesome. … They’re 2 group evidently very overmuch successful love,” he tells PEOPLE.

Kristen Lappas, nan head of The Kingdom, told reporters connected Saturday, Aug. 23, that Swift was “very supportive” of nan six-part docuseries, which chronicles nan Chiefs’ bequest and 2024 season.

Lappas besides said that Swift, who has been making love Travis since 2023, is featured successful nan task and that she “approved each of her image and likeness.” She besides shared that they did not prosecute an question and reply pinch Swift.

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Chiefs executive Lara Krug explained that “you spot [Swift] successful nan measurement that I deliberation is really she wanted to beryllium seen, which is arsenic a instrumentality of nan community.”

All episodes of The Kingdom are disposable to watercourse on ESPN+.