How Taylor Swift rushed to console boyfriend Travis Kelce after his poor NFL performance against Falcons before skipping…see more

How Taylor Swift rushed to console boyfriend Travis Kelce after his poor NFL performance against Falcons before skipping off to cousin’s wedding

He may have tried to shake it off with the words, ‘It’s football baby!’ but the truth is criticism of Travis Kelce’s woeful start to the season has cut deep.

Now, DailyMail.com has exclusively learned, Taylor Swift made an early-morning dash to be by her boyfriend’s side last week, the day after photos of his misery on the Chiefs bench in Atlanta flooded the internet along with calls for him to quit.

According to well-placed insiders Swift, 34, flew from New York to Kelce’s $6 million home in Kansas City hours later on Monday morning.

Today, celebrity gossip podcast ‘Deux Moi,’ confirmed that Swift was in town, with the couple reportedly ‘shutting down,’ the Kansas City hotspot of ‘Noka,’ a downtown Japanese restaurant.

According to Deux Moi, ‘The restaurant was claiming it was closed for maintenance but it’s the same restaurant where Britanny Mahomes had her birthday dinner not very long ago.’

After spending two days together, Swift left Kelce to focus on his football, flying to Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday before making the short hop to St Louis, Missouri on Friday 27 September where she attended her cousin’s wedding.

Swift wasn’t there to watch the Kansas City beat the Los Angeles Chargers 17-10 last Sunday. But, according to one well-placed source, her absence is no indication that her romance with Kelce is cooling off.

Swift simply doesn’t see much of her boyfriend when he’s playing away games and this season is expected to mostly stick to attending the Chief’s home games at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City where she and NFL hunk have the perfect bolthole and where Kelce will celebrate his 35th birthday on Saturday.

Kelce bought his sprawling home in a suburb of Kansas City last October. Set in the manicured grounds of a gated community and far from the public gaze it is the perfect bolt-hole for the A-list couple.

Across the past year they have spent much quality time there together enjoying low-key date nights of simply cooking dinner and watching movies.

The couple has holed up there together early last week as Kelce focuses on training and weathers a storm of criticism for which, as one of the Chief’s most beloved players, the three-time Super Bowl winner is ill-prepared.

It’s been a bumpy month for Kelce and Swift who recently celebrated one year of having made their romance official with the anniversary of the singer’s first public attendance of a game at Arrowhead Stadium on September 24.

Only a couple of weeks earlier they were forced to defend themselves against allegations that the whole relationship was a PR sham following an alleged leak of documents purporting to be from Kelce’s public relations.

Full Scope PR engaged lawyers to ‘initiate proceedings against the individuals or entities responsible for the unlawful and injurious forgery of documents,’ that appeared to offer a comprehensive strategy for Swift and Kelce’s impending breakup, even giving the date of the supposed event as September 18.

Three days after the leak made headlines, they attended the US Open with quarterback Patrick Mahomes, 29, and wife Brittany, also 29.

Kelce and Swift appeared at pains to quash the notion that they were anything other than the real thing, drawing attention for their very public displays of affection as they rocked out to The Darkness’s, ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’.

Now, disappointed by his on-field performance, many are questioning whether such off-field activities may be a distraction to Kelce’s game.