During her closing speech, Swift thanked Kelce and described how he supported her when she directed the music video for her hit song “Fortnight.”

“When I would finish a take and I would say cut, and we would be done with that take, I would always hear someone cheer and say ‘whoo’ on the other side of the studio,” she said. “And that person was my boyfriend Travis. Everything that man touches turns to happiness and joy and magic.”

Swift stunned on the VMAs red carpet in a plaid Dior corset and skirt, thigh-high boots, and fingerless gloves that reached past her elbows. She later changed into a bejeweled Monse minidress with a spaceship on the front, perhaps a nod to her song “Down Bad” by The Tortured Poets Department.

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