Do online videos show authentic documents from Travis Kelce's public relations firm about a staged breakup between him and Taylor Swift? No, that's not true: Kelce's PR firm said in a statement to People magazine that the documents "are entirely false and fabricated." While the displayed papers bore the PR firm's letterhead, the agency said they had "not created, issued or authorized" the documents.
The claim appeared in a Facebook Reel (page archived here) on September 4, 2024. It began with the person in the video saying:
We already knew that Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's relationship was fake. We all knew that it was a media stunt. Because if you look at Travis Kelce's past, Taylor Swift is not even his type. And that's no disrespect to Taylor Swift. And this speculation is officially coming from paperwork out there that was allegedly found of Travis Kelce's PR team on how they were going to handle the situation once Travis and Taylor Swift broke up later this month.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Fri Sep 20 19:01:11 2024 UTC)
About 17 seconds into the video, the supposed PR document appeared. This is what that part of the video looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Fri Sep 20 18:16:34 2024 UTC)
Online images of these same supposed documents displayed a letterhead that said "FULL SCOPE" with the title, "Comprehensive Media Plan For Travis Kelce's Relations Following Breakup with Taylor Swift," as this screenshot from Reddit (archived here) shows:
(Source: Reddit screenshot taken on Fri Sep 20 18:45:17 2024 UTC)
Full Scope is the public relations firm (archived here) that represents Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end who is dating Swift.
Lead Stories contacted Full Scope for comment about this claim, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
"These documents are entirely false and fabricated and were not created, issued or authorized by this agency," the company said in a statement to People magazine (archived here), published on September 5, 2024.
The agency also said they were planning take legal action against the creator of the documents:
they have engaged with the online forum's legal team 'to initiate proceedings against the individuals or entities responsible for the unlawful and injurious forgery of documents.'
A reverse image search on Google Lens (archived here) for the image of the documents seen in the video on Facebook Reels returned no credible results that showed the documents are legitimate.
Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Taylor Swift can be found here. Our fact checks of claims about Travis Kelce can be read here.
