Kayla Nicole on Special Forces: Quotes from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

Influencer and model Kayla Nicole is one of 16 celebrities featured on Fox Special Forces: The World’s Toughest Test – and it didn’t take long before her ex-boyfriend Travis Kelce and his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, has become a topic of conversation.

At the start of the second episode, broadcast as part of the two-part premiere on Wednesday January 7, Nicole, 33, informed the Internet user Alana Blanchard and former Disney Kyla Pratt that her ex is Kelce, 35 years old.

“He’s dating Taylor Swift,” she said. “I get a lot of messages online because he’s dating a mega superstar.”

Nicole and Kelce dated for five years and before calling it quits for good in 2022. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end began dating Swift in the summer of 2023.

Later in the two-part premiere, the Special Forces Troopers post an article with the headline: “Travis Kelce’s Ex Kayla Nicole Asks Trolls to ‘Leave Her Alone’ as Taylor Swift Releases New Album.”

The article was originally published by The Independent in April 2024. At the time, Nicole tweeted: “I just can’t fully digest all these new albums. I’m still here Cowboy Carter.”

The post was taken as a dig at Swift’s release The Department of Tortured Poets aka the first album featuring Kelce-inspired tracks.

“I’m not causing any problems. Mind my business. Never respond to the constant vitriol,” she replied at the time. “Solid as they come in and don’t expect a pat on the back either. Just know that everyone has a breaking point and I would love it if “y’all” (because you know exactly who you are) would leave me alone.

On the show, one of the spiders told Nicole she wanted to explore what happens “when social media becomes a battlefield.”

Elsewhere in episode two, the rest of the cast discussed Kelce.

“I didn’t know it was his ex,” Pratt said before Blanchard asked, “Is he a football player?”

Wide receiver Golden Tate then informed them that Kelce is “arguably the best ever to play tight end.”

“OK, we’re not here to pump that right now,” Pratt said. “We’re just going to say it’s good.”

Keep reading for more quotes from Nicole about Kelce and Swift:

The public breakup

“Going through a public breakup, to be frank, is overwhelming,” she said in a confessional on the second episode. “I have never experienced anything like this. To be reduced to a title – to something as small as someone’s ex-girlfriend – I feel like if I finish this it will have a huge impact for me.

A fan

“I really like her,” Nicole told Blanchard and Pratt in episode two, referring to Swift. “I think she’s very talented.”

An interrogation

Before calling Nicole into the interrogation room in episode two, the Special Forces soldiers learn online how Nicole was drawn into Kelce and Swift’s relationship.

“Yes, it’s pretty coherent (and) exhausting,” she told staff about the speech. “It doesn’t matter: I could post a blue sky post and people will have an answer about an ex and their new situation. This has inadvertently affected me to the point where it makes me question my overall worth as a person.

Nicole then started to cry. “It’s just a comparison. It’s just on repeat. I think I’m still trying to figure out how to deal with this.

When she returned to her colleagues, Nicole explained what had happened. “They published an article about my ex. I didn’t think they were going to do that,” she said. “They’re just really good at putting the pieces together, which makes it feel like I need to prove myself to people. “

Carey Hart— a motocross champion married to Pink – replied: “Well, good. Well, let’s get this shit out of the way…”