Travis Kelce’s next-door neighbor is shedding light on the NFL star’s relationship timeline with Taylor Swift.
During a recent appearance on the “Social Game Podcast,” Wes Bergmann revealed he tried to tell people that Kelce was dating the pop star “months” before they first went public with their romance — but no one believed him.
“I was like the first person to know about any of this stuff. I tried to tell [host Michele Fitzgerald] a long time ago. I was like, ‘They’re together, just so you know’ … but she didn’t believe me,” he said.
“She didn’t believe it. She was like, ‘She only goes for artists,’” he continued. “I beat the validating of her showing up to games and stuff by like six months.”
Wes Bergmann shared his inside take on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship.Art Streiber/E! Entertainment via Getty Images
Bergmann lives in the same gated community as Kelce.GC Images
Fitzgerald said she had reason to be skeptical, noting that Swift typically goes for a “scrawnier” “brooding artist” rather than a “chivalrous, all-American football player.”
However, Bergmann, 41, called the Kansas City Chiefs star, 35, the perfect “boy next door.”
“He’s an enigma — on one hand, he’s like this big, tough football player,” he said of Kelce. “On the other, he’s going to have about 12 Taylor Swift songs written about him.”
It’s unclear whether the “Challenge” alum actually witnessed the two together or if he just heard rumblings around town.
However, after his comments went viral Tuesday, the “Traitors” star apologized for causing confusion about the timeline of their relationship.
The “Traitors” star claimed the couple started dating “months” before their romance made headlines.Getty Images
They went public with their relationship in September 2023 after Swift attended one of Kelce’s football games.Getty Images
“My contribution to this was taken out of context and said in what I thought was relative obscurity, but it obviously wasn’t,” he wrote on X.
“He moved in November, that’s all I know. I told Michele, who is a giant fan, hey this is serious,” he explained.
Bergmann clarified that Fitzgerald “didn’t believe [him] for six months” — not that Swift and Kelce were dating for six months before going public.
“That was the intention of the comment,” he concluded. “Again it was taken out of context but I shouldn’t be talking about it anyway. So consider this the last time I do.”
Bergmann previously shared that Kelce moved into his Leawood, Kan., neighborhood in November 2023 — months after he was linked to the singer.
In October 2023, the NFL star purchased a $6 million mansion in the area — about 30 minutes from his $1 million home in Kansas City’s ritzy Briarcliff West neighborhood.
In fact, Bergmann revealed he was once mistaken for the tight end while “exiting the gated community in [his] brand new beautiful truck.”
Kelce moved into Bergmann’s Leawood, Kan., community in November 2023.BACKGRID
Bergmann said he “tried to tell” people about the new romance but they didn’t believe him.Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty ImagesAD
“The paparazzi snapped me and they thought I was Travis Kelce,” he said on the Feb. 5 episode of “Rob Has a Podcast,” noting that the pictures were “published” online.
“So I am apparently his doppelgänger,” the “Blox” alum added.
While it’s unclear exactly when Kelce and Swift first connected, the couple went public with their relationship in late September 2023 after she attended one of his football games.
Dating rumors began swirling a few months prior when Kelce tried to shoot his shot with the singer following her July 8 concert in Kansas City.
It’s unclear how Bergmann found out about the budding love story.Sports Illustrated via Getty Images
Swift also previously said she and Kelce dated for a “significant amount of time” before anyone knew about it.AP
Kelce famously tried — and failed — to give Swift, 35, a friendship bracelet with his number on it — which caught her attention.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” she shared with Time in December 2023.
“We started hanging out right after that,” she continued. “So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple.”
Before their romance, Swift had a brief fling with 1975 frontman Matt Healy, which ended in early June.
Meanwhile, Kelce hadn’t been in a public relationship since 2022.
