Between his ex Travis Kelce‘s high-profile wedding to Taylor Swiftthe promoter Kayla Nicole he has adjusted his expectations when it comes to romantic relationships.
“I don’t know if I believe in the perfect love story,” Nicole, 34, told Spiritual Word in a video posted Monday, July 13. “I’m older now, you know what I mean?”
He added, “Love is hard. Love is a decision every day to choose the same person.”
Nicole also posted this video to her Instagram Story on Monday, taken from the red carpet of the 2026 BET Awards on June 28.
Five days after the interview was taped, Nicole’s ex married Swift, 36, in a star-studded ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York City surrounded by their closest friends and family members.
Nicole and Kelce, 36, dated for five years before splitting in 2022.
Kelce and Swift went public with their relationship in September 2023, when the pop star attended a Kansas City Chiefs game for the first time. The couple announced their engagement in August 2025.
Nicole has not shied away from discussing her former relationship with Kelce since their breakup, especially since the NFL star has exploded in anonymity because of his famous wife.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift
Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadioIn February, Nicole revealed that she and Kelce were having “compatibility issues.”
“Right person, wrong time,” Nicole suggested in a live TikTok chat Love Island‘s Ace Greene.
Nicole insisted she is “out of the athlete phase” when it comes to dating during an appearance on the “Behind the Likes” podcast in January 2024.
“I would like to date someone who I think is attracted to men in charge, I think those types of men attract me,” she said. “So, I’d like to date a record label executive or a movie producer.”
To no one’s surprise, Rob Gronkowski was the life of the party at Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s wedding. “It was at a high level. We’re going to look for Taylor and Trav,” said Gronkowski, 37, on Thursday, July 9, on Tubi’s show, The Other Football. “The dance floor, one thing, was coming. Gronkowski’s producer, the NFL […]
Nicole said her ideal night would be “on the court at a Laker game” with her teammates, instead of cheering them on in the stands.
“That’s my kind of guy,” he explained. “I don’t need to go to any of the sports anymore because I have a jersey with someone’s name on the back.”
In October 2023, Nicole detailed how Kelce’s breakup affected her life.
“I lost a lot of weight in a very short time,” he said People. “I wasn’t sleeping, I wasn’t eating, I was abusing melatonin to sleep at night. You can be in the best shape of your life, but mentally, if you’re not healthy, you’re not going to feel good.”
