Inside Taylor Swift's inner circle, including Travis Kelce, Selena Gomez, and Tree Paine

Taylor has an incredibly close relationship with her mom and dad, who have their daughter since she was an early tweenager, moving the family from Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee, so Taylor could pursue her dreams of being a country music star. 

In recent years they followed Taylor on her global Eras Tour, cheering her on from the VIP tents, with Scott handing out guitar picks and Andrea involved in helping to choose the lucky fan who would receive the "22" hat. 

Taylor wrote the 2008 song "The Best Day" about her family and her mom specifically, with lyrics including: "I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger / God smiles on my little brother, inside and out, he's better than I am / I grew up in a pretty house and I had space to run / And I had the best days with you."

In summer 2023 Taylor Swift was connected with NFL star Travis Kelce, and two years on, the pair are now engaged to be married, and there's an argument to be made that he is the biggest Swiftie of us all. 

The Kansas City Chiefs player attended Taylor's Arrowhead Stadium show in July 2023 and later revealed on his New Heights podcast that he wanted to meet her and gift her a friendship bracelet that had his number on it. He didn't realize how tight security would be, and then moped about it on the podcast – which led to several mutual friends linking the two together. The rest, as they say, is history.  

"This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell," Taylor told Time magazine in December 2023. "When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she said. "The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other." 

Taylor announced the news of TS12 on his podcast, and he was clearly overjoyed and hyping her up, sharing on a later episode that he keeps "listening to this album," and that he had been "dancing throughout the house". 

"I know she mentioned that it’s gonna be a lot more pop beats, but it’s just still so poetic in her melodies and her references and stuff," he added.

Taylor's younger brother works for 13 Management, Taylor's management company, in production and licensing. He is also an actor, and helped to produce her Disney+ documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions, as well as the music video for "I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version)." 

The pair were close growing up, and remain so today; "My dad, my mom, and my brother come up with some of the best ideas in my career. I always joke that we're a small family business," she told TIME Magazine in 2023. 

In 2020 for National Siblings Day, Taylor shared a funny snap of the two together at her birthday party, writing: "My brother @austinkingsleyswift is one of my best pals, and I’m really proud of him because he’s in a film that came out today called We Summon The Darkness (which he also co-produced). Photo by Gigi. My facial expression by 3 glasses of wine." Austin and his girlfriend, model Sydney Ness, have also spent time with Taylor and Travis, attending NFL games with the singer.

Selena and Taylor's friendship has remained a quiet and steady presence for almost 20 years; they met in 2008 when Taylor was dating Joe Jonas and Selena was dating Nick Jonas. 

The romances didn't last but the friendship the two women formed did, with Taylor playing a major role in Selena's wedding to Benny Blanco in 2025.

Reports from insiders at the special day in Santa Barbara revealed Taylor was one of several guests who gave a speech, and that she spoke about how their friendship had helped each other whenever they were left broken-hearted, and thanked Benny for making the Only Murders in the Building actress happier than she'd ever seen her.

To Swifties, Abigail will always be the "red-head" who sat next to Taylor in their freshman year of high school and went on to become her best friend. Over 20 years later, the pair remain incredibly close, with Taylor giving a "hilarious" maid of honor speech at Abigail's 2017 wedding to her first husband.

Abigail lives in Nashvile, but has become close to many of Taylor's other friends, especially Gigi Hadid and attended several Eras Tour shows. 

It's clear she has also become close with Travis and approves of their romance, sharing the engagement post on her own Stories and adding the words: "This [heart emoji]." The song "Fifteen" is about Abigail and their friendship.

Tree may be employed by Taylor but any Swiftie knows that Tree is a core part of the inner circle. Taylor's publicist for over a decade now, Tree has been there on every red carpet and for all of the major moments, including the "this summer is the apocalypse" era of 2016, having to give the bad news that Reputation didn't receive a single Grammy nomination, and also attending every single show of the record-breaking Eras Tour across the globe.