It’s a love story, the likes of which could be lifted from any number of Taylor Swift albums. TayTay’s engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce, however, was no surprise in the inner circle.

On Tuesday, Kelce, the Super Bowl-winning tight end, officially put a ring on it when he and Swift announced they were tying the knot.

That’s old news in the Kelce family. Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, says his son proposed to TayTay earlier this month.

Speaking with News 5’s John Kosich, Ed Kelce remarked, “Travis actually did the proposal, oh, maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago.” Kelce’s father continued, “He was going to put it off till this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off till this week, to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big special event. And I told him repeatedly, you know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.”

On the big day, Travis popped the question in the garden at his home in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

“He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘let’s go out and have a glass of wine,’ … they got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,” Ed Kelce remarked. “They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great.”

The Kelce happy is thrilled to welcome the new, superstar addition.

“They’re just two young people very much in love, cast in a spotlight that they really haven’t sought but kind of followed with their success in their respective fields,” Ed Kelce says.

In what will be remembered as one of the popular culture moments of the decade, Swift and Kelce delivered the good news via a joint Instagram post, sharing a photo of the footballer down on one knee as Swift lovingly cradles his face. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” they wittily wrote in the caption.

The post also features photos of the couple embracing in a romantic garden of flowers, as well as a snap showing off Swift’s gold engagement band with a massive diamond in the center. The exciting update comes after about two years of dating.

The Wiggles are handling a different type of hot potato — a workplace dispute that has reached Australia’s Federal Court.

The legendary kids entertainers are being taken to court by Luke O’Neill, who in January 2024 was unveiled as their first ever CEO, but was sacked just 16 months later.

O’Neill is suing Wiggles Holdings Pty Ltd, group co-founder and “blue” wiggle Anthony Field, and general counsel Matthew Salgo, alleging breaches of the Fair Work Act, including claims of unpaid bonuses and unlawful dismissal.

According to documents filed with the court, reported by The Guardian, O’Neill’s employment was terminated in late May 2025, a dismissal he alleges had no reasonable basis.

O‘Neill claims several issues surfaced, which are documented in the paperwork. A year after slotting into the the role, he alleges he challenged additional hires not approved by himself or the company, and claims that on Feb. 18, Field “questioned his competence” during a staff meeting attended by approximately 13 employees, and “undermined him.” He also details being “excluded” from an important toy sale meeting, before his ouster.

Following his departure, The Wiggles reportedly paid him a bonus in the gross sum of A$86,266 ($56,000), O’Neill said in the paperwork, which he disputes is less than the full amount owed.

A spokesperson for The Wiggles has responded to the court case. “For 35 years, The Wiggles have been dedicated to bringing joy, learning, and high-quality children’s entertainment to families around the world,” reads a statement, seen by The Music Network.

“Our greatest privilege has always been helping children laugh, sing, and dance, and creating happy memories for families to share. The claim made by Luke O’Neill is currently before the Court and will be defended. It is not appropriate that we make any comment until the Defence has been filed.”

O’Neill joined The Wiggles as a consultant on April 1, 2023, before being appointed CEO on Jan. 8, 2024, with a remit to lead the organization’s digital transformation and global expansion.

As previously reported, O’Neill was expected to expand the Wiggles’ digital footprint, develop new products, grow the commercial operations of the business, and build greater distribution channels to reach larger audiences.

The case is slated to be heard by Justice Michael Lee, with a first case management hearing scheduled for Sept. 8.

The Wiggles are a powerhouse, racking-up more than 30 million sales of albums and DVDs, and upwards of 8 million book sales. Along the way, the group has won triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown (with a cover of Tame Impala’s “Elephant”); bagged a No. 1 album on the ARIA Chart; became the first band in Australian history to perform two national arena tours in a single year; nabbed the Ted Albert Award for outstanding service to Australian music (a first for a kid’s entertainment act), and filled arenas around the world.

Earlier this year, another first with the release of Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!, featuring music and collaborations with such country artists as Dasha, Dolly Parton, Lainey Wilson, Jackson Dean, Orville Peck, MacKenzie Porter and Lucky Oceans.

A new studio album, The Tree of Wisdom, is due out Oct. 3 and will be supported with live dates.

Lana Del Rey’s country album is still cooking. According to a new cover interview with W, the singer’s long-delayed set is now called Stove and will come out in January.

Most recently scheduled to come out this past spring, Del Rey decided to postpone the album to add six songs.

“They were more autobiographical than I thought, and that took more time,” she told W. “The majority of the album will have a country flair. Eight years ago, when I was looking to make a country record, no one else was thinking about country,” she said, adding that she then contemplated putting out an album of covers called Country & Western but instead began writing originals. “Now everyone is going country! I’ve asked myself, Should I retire all my snakeskin boots? Should I put my cowboy hats in storage?”

Del Rey first teased her country album in January 2024 at the Billboard x NMPA Songwriter Awards event, announcing the title was Lasso and that it would come out in September 2024. “We’re going country!” she declared. “It’s happening.”

However, in October, after the proposed release date had come and gone, Del Rey said on an In Style red carpet that a shift in the “musical atmosphere” had led her to pause the project, which she collaborated on with producers Jack Antonoff, Luke Laird, Zachary Dawes and Drew Erickson. “The songs I have I love; I don’t want to turn it into something that’s half-cooked.”

The pause was short-lived: Last November, Del Rey posted on Instagram that her album, now called The Right Person Will Stay would come out on May 21, though that date passed without the album’s release. “So grateful that my 13 tracks came together with my beautiful work between Luke, Jack, Zach and Drew Erickson amongst others,” the singer-songwriter wrote at the time. “Happy for you to hear a few songs coming up before Stagecoach. Starting with Henry. Love always.”

In April, she released the ethereal, acoustic guitar track now called “Henry, Come On,” which she debuted live at Stagecoach the same month, along with “Stars Fell in Alabama,” a song written for her new husband, Jeremy Dufrene.

After Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Tuesday (Aug. 26), social media exploded with well-wishes for the superstar couple — from ecstatic fans and the pair’s famous friends alike.

Celebrity reactions included Sabrina Carpenter, who is the only featured artist on Swift’s upcoming The Life of a Showgirl album, teaming up with her Eras tourmate for the project’s title track. On Instagram Stories, Carpenter shared 10 white hearts above an engagement photo of the couple embracing with their foreheads touching.

Charlie Puth shared the same photo on his Instagram Stories, writing above it: “Congratulations Taylor & Travis! This is the best part of life. So happy for you both!!” Puth was in his own #EngagementEra last year, before marrying longtime family friend Brooke Sansone in September 2024.

Jelly Roll couldn’t contain his all-caps excitement on Instagram Stories, writing, “Let’s go TRAV AND TAYLOR! Congrats big dog! @killatrav love looks good on you bubba.”

Avril Lavigne shared the engagement post too, writing on Instagram Stories: “Awww huge congratulations to @taylorswift and @killatrav.” She finished her message with three ring emojis and three shimmering pink heart emojis. Chainsmokers DJ/producer Alex Pall chimed in on Instagram Stories too, with a message for the NFL star: “Shout out to the lover boy @killatrav.”

Beyond Swift’s fellow pop stars, Kelce’s football family also weighed in on the news, with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sharing three red hearts on Instagram Stories alongside the engagement post, and his wife Brittany writing on IG: “Two of the most genuine people meet & fall in love. Just so happy for these two.”

Gracie Hunt, daughter of Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt, shared her “congratulations” on Instagram Stories, adding, “so happy for you two.” She also released a statement to People, which read: “I can’t stop smiling — Travis and Taylor’s engagement feels like a modern fairytale unfolding in real life. Their love story has captured so many hearts, and now it’s stepping into an even more magical chapter.”

Some more of Swift’s high-profile friends sent messages too, with Taylor’s childhood bestie Abigail (name-dropped on her Fearless single “Fifteen”) simply writing, “This ❤️,” above the engagement news on Instagram Stories, while supermodel/actress and longtime #Squad member Cara Delevingne wrote “@taylorswift + @killatrav” with 14 hearts-on-fire emojis.

After President Trump’s surprisingly supportive reaction to the engagement news earlier Tuesday, another vocal Swift critic, conservative host Megyn Kelly, shared that she was “rooting” for the couple — among other less-cheerful words. “I am rooting for them,” Kelly wrote on her website, after saying that Swift lost her when “she went political and, like anybody who does that in the arts, they risk alienating half the country.” Kelly’s essay continued: “I don’t think it is a coincidence that the person she ultimately decided to settle down with is a real man, is a football player, is a tough guy who doesn’t really take a lot of sh– from people. That is generally attractive to most women. I think it is no accident that this gal from the south [Note: Swift is from Pennsylvania] who started out singing country songs found him attractive, and he was ultimately the one who won her heart. I also think it is obvious the reasons why he would be attracted to Taylor Swift, so I am rooting for them.”

Swift and Kelce had nothing but support from tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who simply shared a clapping emoji alongside the news on X.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay wins for the best reaction, as he perfectly played off the couple’s original “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married” caption in his own Instagram post. “From one ring to the next,” Ramsay wrote alongside a photo of himself with Kelce on the field for the 2023 Super Bowl, in which Kelce’s Chiefs beat the Eagles. “Congrats @killatrav & @taylorswift ! From your favourite Home Ec Teacher.”

The internet has had a lot to say about Betty Who‘s recent appearance on the Made It Out podcast — and now, King Princess is offering her two cents on the situation.

In a TikTok posted Tuesday (Aug. 26), Mikaela Straus shared her thoughts on the recent controversy, in which Who talked about being a queer woman while dating a straight man, and how it felt “like a crime to be straight” in the queer community.

“You are not a victim because you started dating a man and queer people are disappointed in you because you used the queer community to market your music,” Straus said in her video. “They feel betrayed, that’s fair, you have to live with that. Who cares? To get up on a podcast and claim this victimhood when you are in a position of privilege — dating a man in a heteronormative society — is ridiculous, and it is not going to resonate with people.”

Straus did not specifically call out Who by name, but clarified in a comment under the video that her statements were “about the many divas who felt the need to do this THIS YEAR,” seemingly also referring to similar controversies that erupted around JoJo Siwa and Fletcher.

“Date a man, it’s not a big deal. But why are you on a podcast talking about it? It’s not an interesting narrative,” Straus continued in her video. “We live in a country where our rights are being stripped from us every day, and you think it’s important to get on a podcast and talk about how hard it is to be in a heteronormative relationship? Diva!”

During her appearance on the Made It Out podcast, Betty Who also made comments about lesbian pop star Reneé Rapp, saying that she would “hold space” for the singer to one day fall in love with a man while trying to make a larger point about the fluidity of sexuality. “Reneé Rapp is like, ‘You’ll never catch me dating a man.’ It’s like, ‘Go off, queen! I love that for you,’” Who said. “But I also hold space for her in 10 years if she goes, ‘Oops, I met the love of my life and it’s this man, I didn’t mean to.’ It’s like, that’s OK!”

Check out King Princess’ take on Betty Who’s comments below: