admin Everyone (or, at least, everyone I know, which does carry a certain gay-under-40 selection bias) is still buzzing about the whirlwind romance unfolding between Taylor Swift and football star Travis Kelce since September, and honestly, I understand why. I mean…riding away from Kelce’s big game in a convertible together? Is this a literal rom-com? Do things like this actually happen to real, mortal human beings?
As the Taylor-Travis excitement reaches a fever pitch, let us take a little trip back through time and context and remember that they’re not the first such pair to light up social media. Below, find a guide to the celeb-athlete unions that preceded Traylor. (Travaylor? Okay, I need some help with a couple name for these two.)
Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
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These two were the literal blueprint for the generations of actor-sportsman pairs that would come after them, despite the fact that they were only married for a year (although they did remain good friends until Monroe’s death in 1962).
Posh Spice, a.k.a. Victoria Beckham, and David Beckham
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