{"id":780450,"date":"2026-07-05T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:13:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-favorite-teacher-reportedly-died-the-same-day-she-married-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780450\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s Favorite Teacher Reportedly Died The Same Day She Married Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Taylor Swift<br \/>\n                          Favorite HS Teacher Died As She Tied The Knot With Travis Kelce<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 5, 2026<br \/>\n                            1:29 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260704_a0366c5b8a5f4f0c9189e8d8cc4d1aa9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:14381384-664c-413e-966a-8827d0159fc6\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a0366c5b8a5f4f0c9189e8d8cc4d1aa9_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s wedding was bittersweet &#8230; her favorite teacher reportedly died the same day she married Travis Kelce.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to The Telegraph, Kirk Schwabe passed away after a battle with cancer on July 3, when the pop star got hitched to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260605_b96313f1bfb146a6915993e3563c6b96\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:14381384-664c-413e-966a-8827d0159fc6\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b96313f1bfb146a6915993e3563c6b96_md.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift Madison Square Garden Concerts 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schwabe was a cop in Chicago before landing a job as an educator at Hendersonville High School in Nashville, where he taught criminal justice to Taylor from 2004 to 2006, the Telegraph said.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Schwabe reportedly gained the trust of Taylor and her family, who, in 2009, asked him to be Taylor&#8217;s personal security guard as her music career skyrocketed. Schwabe jumped at the chance, retiring from his teaching gig and working long, hard hours for the 14-time Grammy Award winner.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with the Telegraph, Schwabe said he ultimately quit the security job because he was totally burned out, yet he still loved Taylor and called her a &#8220;superstar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although he was unable to make it to their wedding, Schwabe said Taylor chose the right husband in Travis, believing she has impeccable judgement. Schwabe&#8217;s wife, Jane, said Schwabe treated Taylor just like one of his daughters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schwabe was 69.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Favorite HS Teacher Died As She Tied The Knot With Travis Kelce Published July 5, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-780450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}