Jason Kelce wore a Tinder shirt on Valentines Day as a nod to how he met his wife
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Jason Kelce seems like a really fun dude to be around. He’s hilarious on his and Travis’ New Heights podcast and doesn’t appear to take himself too seriously. Jason and his wife Kylie have been together since 2015 and married since 2018. They have three young daughters together: Wyatt Elizabeth, four, Elliotte Ray, two, and Bennett Llewellyn, who turns one on February 23. Jason and Kylie famously met through Tinder. They’ve told the story of their first date both in the Prime Video documentary Kelce last year and again on a September 2023 episode of New Heights.
For Valentines Day this year, Jason and Kylie went out for dinner at a local Philadelphia restaurant. Honestly, I feel like life with Jason is never a dull moment. While they were at dinner, Kylie snapped a picture of her husband’s very romantic dinner attire. Jason wore a long-sleeve t-shirt with the Tinder logo on it and the text, “Never forget where you came from…” OMG, amazing.
As the couple enjoyed a Valentine’s Day meal at K’FAR restaurant on Wednesday, the Philadelphia Eagles center, 36, was decked out in a long-sleeved shirt featuring the Tinder logo.
“Are you kidding me with this?” Kylie, 31, wrote on a photo on her Instagram Story of her husband smiling while perusing the menu, adding a heart face emoji.
The parents of three daughters first shared how they met in their Prime Video documentary Kelce last year.
“Jason won’t let me lie about this,” Kylie said. “We met on Tinder.”
Initially, Kylie said she didn’t even know the person she matched with on the app was an athlete. “None of his pictures showed Eagles football,” she said. But she and her friends made the connection after Googling him.
So when Jason invited Kylie to meet him and some friends at a local bar, she said she thought it would be “hilarious either way” if it turned out to really be the Eagles player or someone “pretending to be him,” she said. Not only did Jason turn out to be the real deal, he thought Kylie was pretty notable too.
“Right away when she walks in the door, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,” Jason recalled.
The athlete said it was “very much like love at first sight” when he and Kylie met that night. Now married for six years, the couple recently debated what they would do for Valentine’s Day in the latest episode of the Kelce brothers’ podcast New Heights, but Jason refused to tell.
“It’s gonna be a surprise,” he said. “Got it all planned out.”
An unconvinced Kylie predicted that the NFL star would call Emily, a woman they work with, to book them a dinner reservation as soon as the episode concluded.
“Listen, Emily makes our reservations,” Jason replied. When Kylie raised the question of who would look after their girls during their date night, Jason quickly improvised.
“I thought we’ve been away from the kids for so long that it’d be good to include the kids, ‘cause I know you miss them so much,” he answered, to which Kylie sarcastically remarked, “He’s a hopeless romantic, everyone!”
Looks like Emily came through with those reservations, lol. I’m glad they were able to figure something out. I hope Emily also made sure that Jason got Kylie something really nice for V-Day this year. Like I said above, it seems like life with Jason is a nonstop adventure and I wonder what kind of shenanigans he’ll get up to now that he’s left the Eagles and is likely headed to retirement. I could totally see him going the brand ambassador route a la Ben Affleck and including his family and extended family in on the fun. I also think it’s pretty cool that Jason didn’t advertise his professional football gig on his Tinder profile. That makes me think that he’s the real deal and not just some total ego show.
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