Travis Kelce‘s ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole has seemingly deleted her X account amid a slew of controversy.
Multiple media outlets reported that the “Pre-Game” podcast host, 34, deactivated her X account on Thursday, November 6, after a number of alleged old tweets resurfaced. According to the Daily Mail, the messages dated as far back as 2010 and allegedly used racist and homophobic language.
Us Weekly reached out to representatives for Nicole for comment. As of Saturday, November 8, the reality competition TV star’s Instagram account was still active.
The resurfaced, alleged tweets come after Nicole recreated Toni Braxton’s look from her “He Wasn’t Man Enough” music video for Halloween, which also sparked online controversy. The footage featured Nicole lipsyncing to some of the lyrics from Braxton’s 2000 diss track, aimed at an ex-boyfriend and his new lover.
Joe Scarnici/Getty Images Travis Kelce and Kayla Nicole went through several relationship ups and downs before splitting for good in 2022. The exes dated on and off for five years after Nicole kicked things off by sending him an Instagram DM in 2017. “He had been following me and insta-flirting for a few months,” she […]
“Did you know about us back then? / Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?” Nicole lip-synched. “I’m not thinking ’bout him / But you married him / Do you know I made him leave? / Do you know he begged to stay with me? / He wasn’t man enough for me.”
Many fans suspected Nicole’s costume was a shady way of responding to rumors that Kelce’s fiancée, Taylor Swift, may have referenced her on her The Life of a Showgirl track “Opalite.”
(Some fans assumed Swift’s lyric that “she was in her phone, and you were just a pose” knocked Nicole for documenting her five-year relationship with Kelce via social media. One viral clip that was resurfaced by Swift fans saw Kelce once asking Nicole to “get off [her] phone” during a dinner date.)
Nicole eventually responded on her podcast with a cryptic explanation that her Halloween costume was inspired by a different “Taylor.”
Kayla Nicole dressed as Toni Braxton for Halloween 2025. Courtesy Instagram / @iamkaylanicole
“I had a white best friend. Her name was Taylor,” she explained. “And she [had] the only house I could go over to as a kid because my mom didn’t play them type of games. I specifically remember driving home from private school in my uniform in the back of a paddy wagon with Taylor, and her mom was playing this song.”
Nicole described this childhood memory as an “a-ha moment” moment, as she realized: “‘Wow, white people listen to Black people music as well.’”
Kelce, 36, and Nicole were together from 2017 to 2002. The Kansas City Chiefs player later moved on with Swift in 2023, eventually announcing their engagement via a joint Instagram post in August.
Some theorized that Nicole responded to her ex-boyfriend’s engagement news hours later by resharing a video of actress Tracee Ellis Ross discussing the difference between happiness and joy.
“I think joy is different from happiness,” Ross noted in the clip. “I feel like happiness is something you can get at 7-Eleven and joy is something that you earn and work for and takes practice. I feel like joy has legs. I feel like joy has feet. I feel like joy has roots. I feel like joy creates space and allows room for more than just a good day. I think joy is an attitude. I think joy is a perspective, and I think joy is a lens through which I live and look at my life.”
Travis Kelce’s Kayla Nicole is ready to start a new chapter after unfollowing Brittany and Patrick Mahomes on social media. “Friendship breakups are tough. But it’s a part [sic] of life,” Nicole, 32, wrote during an Instagram Story Q&A on Wednesday, November 29. “People are sometimes only meant to be in your life for a […]
Nicole added a caption over the video where she explained: “Read about this very concept years ago in a book called Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn’t Enough. I aspire! So so good.”
Elsewhere, Kelce and Swift, 35, were most recently spotted in their finest fall attire as they enjoyed a romantic evening at The Polo Bar in New York City on Wednesday, November 5.
Swift has supported Kelce several times by attending his NFL games throughout the 2024-25 season, though the couple can enjoy some quality time this weekend since the Kansas City Chiefs have a bye week. (The Chiefs will next play against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado, on November 16.)
