Kayla Nicole dropped Travis Kelce’s name on the upcoming season of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.”
The 33-year-old whispered her ex-boyfriend’s moniker to her co-stars in Wednesday’s sneak peek of the Fox show.
The influencer’s fellow cast members asked about her past relationship after Nicole described it in a voiceover.
“Going through a public breakup, it’s been overwhelming,” she said as footage played of the Pepperdine University graduate wiping away a tear.
Nicole, who stars in Season 3 alongside Brody Jenner, Denise Richards and more stars, started dating Kelce, 35, in 2017.
The couple got together in the wake of his breakup from “Catching Kelce” contestant Maya Benberry.
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Kelce admitted to E! News in February 2022 that he had been “stalking” Nicole on Instagram before she sent him a DM on New Year’s Eve.
“Finally … she gave in,” the athlete said at the time. “New year, new me.”
He and Nicole first broke up in August 2020 amid infidelity rumors — which the tight end clapped back at via X.
“This is fake news … a lie … and not why Kayla and I broke up,” the Super Bowl winner claimed. “take all your hatred somewhere else please.”
By November of that same year, the pair were back together.
Kelce and Nicole called it quits for good in 2022, with speculation swirling that the NFL star had made his partner pay for half of everything.
“Do I look like anybody that would split anything?” Nicole asked on an “Unapologetically Angel” podcast episode in October. “Do I look like I would go 50/50 on bills?
“That was never an issue in our relationship,” she continued. “It was definitely a rumor on the internet. … I don’t even know why that even became a thing.”
Kelce, for his part, also denied the “crazy” money rumors to “Pivot” listeners in January 2023.
Six months later, news broke that he and Swift, 34, were “hanging out” — and the couple made their romance public that September.
Nicole has been slammed by online trolls ever since, and she addressed the “backlash and embarrassment” in an open letter via Instagram last year.
“Preserve your heart even when they try to quantify your character and test your boundaries,” she wrote in October 2023. “You do not have to respond. Because there is power in your silence.”
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