Taylor Swift Fans Seemingly Spot ‘Kiss, Marry, Kill’ Pic of Travis Kelce in ‘Fate of Ophelia’ Video

Taylor Swift was inspired by fiancé Travis Kelce when she wrote her new song “The Fate of Ophelia” — but did he appear in the music video?

Swift’s music video premiered during her “Release Party of a Showgirl” theatrical event this weekend, where fans saw the 35-year-old pop star journey through eras, from the subject of John Everett Millais’ 1851 portrait of the Hamlet heroine to a synchronized swimmer to a showgirl and beyond.

In one scene, Swift and her former Eras Tour backup dancers appear as Las Vegas-style showgirls, preparing to hit the stage in a dressing room while wearing matching red corsets. Eagle-eyed sleuths on social media have since speculated that there is a black-and-white photo of Kelce, 36, affixed to a vanity mirror.

“Omg a photo of Travis in the back lmao,” one fan wrote via X, with another adding, “This is killing me still.”

Other fans pointed out that the image in question seemingly matched Kelce’s 2016 interview on Afterbuzz TV where he was asked to play a game of “Kiss, Marry Kill” with Swift, Ariana Grande and Katy Perry.

“Damn, that’s messed up. I don’t want to kill any of them,” Kelce quipped during the game. “Ariana, sorry, love you, but you’re gone. And then Taylor Swift would be the kiss. And what’s the last one? Katy Perry? Yeah, Katy Perry would be the marry.”

Swift started dating Kelce in summer 2023, chronicling the early days of their romance on 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department. Her song “So High School” even appears to mention the now-viral game itself.

“Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me (Kill me),” Swift sings on the TTPD track. “It’s just a game, but really / I’m bettin’ on all three for us two.”

Swift has since moved on from singing about just kissing Kelce, who proposed in August. She penned her Showgirl tracks “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite,” “Eldest Daughter, “Wish List,” “Wood” and “Honey” about finding a forever type of love with her “best friend that [she thinks] is hot.”

“The Fate of Ophelia,” specifically, offers a twist on the Shakespearian character who tragically died after being manipulated by the men in her life.

“I have a big file of lyrics, [which] is so long and so weird. There are just so many,” Swift said in a “Release Party” explanation video, detailing her songwriting process. “When I’ll be in a writing session, I’ll be scrolling through this file. It was actually [producer] Shellback who came up with this really cool chord progression, and I was just singing on top of it, and my eyes scanned across ‘The Fate of Ophelia.’”

She continued, “I was like, ‘Wait, so Ophelia drowned because Hamlet just messed with her head so much that she went crazy and she couldn’t take it anymore, and all these men were just gaslighting her until she drowned.’ It’s like, ‘What if the hook was like you saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia?’”

According to Swift, the song means that her partner — a.k.a. Kelce — is “the reason [she didn’t] end up like this tragic, poetic hero girl who passed away in a fictional world.”

“The Fate of Ophelia” music video also features two other nods to Kelce, including a shot of Swift catching a football and the No. 87 listed on a hotel room door, the latter to match Kelce’s NFL jersey number.

The Life of a Showgirl is out now, and “The Fate of Ophelia” music video premieres on YouTube Sunday, October 5, at 7 p.m. ET.