One year before Ed Kelce’s girlfriend, Maureen Maguire, suddenly died at the age of 74, he gushed about her first interactions with Taylor Swift.
Swift, 35, started dating Ed’s son Travis Kelce in summer 2023 and met his family the following fall at one of Travis’ Kansas City Chiefs football games. (Ed shares Travis, 35, and Jason, 37, with ex-wife Donna Kelce.)
Ed recalled to The Los Angeles Times in February 2024 that at one of the games, he and Swift took a photo together.
“Hey! That’s my boyfriend,” Ed recalled of what Maguire jokingly told the pop star.
According to Ed, Swift then laughed, and they struck more of a “father-daughter pose.”
One month earlier, Ed explained during a separate interview that it was Maguire who let him know that meeting Swift was a big deal.
“I met Taylor at Travis’ house. When Travis has a lot of friends coming into town to the game, everyone meets at his house, although he’s not there because he’s sequestered with the team,” Ed said during a January 2024 appearance on Audacy’s 92.3 The Fan radio show. “Everyone meets at the house, and they have a shuttle that comes [to] pick everyone up and take them to the game. At any given home game, you could end up with 20 people there.”
He continued, “Taylor walks in with a security guy, and I look at her, and I say [to my girlfriend], ‘Oh my God, I know this kid, but I don’t know what her name is.’ Jeez, you know, like a real idiot.”
Ed explained that Maguire told him, “You don’t know her? This is Taylor Swift, you idiot.”
“Maureen Maguire, born November 21, 1950, in the Bronx, New York, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loved ones,” the obituary read in part. “Though she began her life in New York City, Maureen spent the majority of her years in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where she built a warm and vibrant home filled with love, laughter, and family traditions.”
The tribute added, “In recent years, she spent treasured time in Cape May with her family, enjoying peaceful days by the ocean. She also grew an unexpected love for football later in life, sharing many laughs and adventures with her beloved friend Ed Kelce and her loyal dog, Butch.”
In addition to Ed, Maguire is survived by her children from a previous marriage, as well as her grandchildren.
