Gracie Abrams, like the majority of the pop universe, was super-pumped to hear the news about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on Tuesday (Aug. 26). The singer who toured the world with Swift as an opening act on the singer’s record-breaking Eras Tour took a few minutes out of her show at the Pepsi Center WTC in Mexico City just hours after the big reveal to give a hearty congratulations to Taylor and Travis.

“I feel like we should be saying a big congratulations to Taylor, who’s not here, but everybody, just congratulations to her,” Abrams said, in a TikTok shared by a fan. “I feel like she’s here with us tonight because of this song,” Abrams added, as the crowd went wild at the news and the singer urged them to help her out by singing Swift’s part on their duet, “Us” from Abrams’ 2024 The Secret of Us album.

Abrams was among the many musicians, athletes, movie stars — and one seemingly reformed anti-fan president of the United States — who took time out on Tuesday to congratulate the happy couple after their surprise announcement. The singer and Kansas City Chiefs tight end, both 35, broke the news in a record-smashing social post that featured a series of photos from the flower-splashed garden proposal in which they cheekily revealed that “Your English teach and your gym teacher are getting married.”

And while it was news to the rest of us, according to Kelce’s dad, Ed Kelce, the IRL proposal actually took place two weeks ago. “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 said. “They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great.”

See Swift’s engagement post below.

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.