Global music megastar Taylor Swift was not reported to have attended her fiancé Travis Kelce’s game Sunday night, when the future Hall of Fame tight end’s Kansas City Chiefs finally scraped out their first win of the season, topping the New York Giants 22-9.
While there may not be any significance to Swift missing a road game, fans were left with questions after what the pop princess did at the Chiefs’ home loss to the Philadelphia Eagles the previous week.
Swift reportedly attended under heavy security measures that had not been seen when she showed up at previous Chiefs games. Now, a new report has revealed a potential reason for the superstar’s increased fear for her safety â an alleged stalker who, according to a source close to Swift cited by a Daily Mail report, has previously gone to “depraved lengths” in his attempts “to invade her privacy.”
Swift Previously Made No Secret of her Game Attendance
Previously Swift has been all-too-happy to be seen cheering on Kelce while surrounded by friends and family in a private luxury box at Arrowhead Stadium, since she and the seven-time All-Pro first became an item before the 2023 season
And the NFL has been all-too-happy to have her visible on camera. According to research last season by The New York Times, television viewership for NFL games â not just Chiefs games â was up by nine percent in the Sunday late time slot, and 15 percent in the Sunday early slot, when Swift attended Chiefs games.
The Times also looked at two Sunday Night Football games featuring the Chiefs with Swift in attendance, and one Thursday Night Football game, finding that the “Swift Effect” worked in those time slots too, with TV ratings higher than for average NFL games broadcast in those formats.
Swift Behind Bulletproof Barrier For Chiefs’ Home Opener
But for the first Kansas City home game of the season, on September 14, Swift reportedly arrived late â avoiding media waiting for her to make an entrance â and proceeded to watch the game from behind âa bullet-resistant portable shield partition.”
Why has Swift suddenly taken up heightened security measures? With a net worth, per Forbes Magazine, of $1.6 billion, the world’s richest female musician has obvious reasons to take extraordinary precautions.
Other speculation has centered around the fact that, according to Heavy.com writer Anne Erickson, “security has been higher throughout the United States, in general, since the Charlie Kirk shooting. Events across the country have been extra careful about security following the fatal shooting, which happened on Thursday, September 11.”
Newspaper Cites Potential Cause of Heightened Measures
But according to a disturbing report published by Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, Swift has a more specific, and even more frightening reason for her tightened security.
“The Daily Mail can reveal she is facing mounting struggles with an alleged stalker who, despite extensive efforts by a personal investigator, cannot be found,” the paper reported, citing court documents. “Brian Jason Wagner, whom Swift, 35, has a temporary restraining order (TRO) against, has disappeared, according to a declaration filed by Brooke Berg, a licensed private investigator who was hired to help the singer track him down.”
According to the Mail report, Wagner has not responded to repeated efforts â including in-person stake-outs â by Swift’s private investigator to contact him, to serve him notification of a September 22 hearing on the restraining order. Berg, the private investigator, has been unable to locate the alleged stalker, the Mail reported.
Berg in her court filing cited in by the Mail said that Wagner is “either transient or actively concealing his whereabouts.”
Until the stalker situation is resolved through legal or law enforcement measures, according to the Mail‘s “insider” source, “it will take precedent over everything she does in her life and career.”
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