Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married on July 3, 2026, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. On the same day, Kirk Schwabe, Swift’s former high school teacher and later security guard, died at 69 from metastatic kidney cancer.
Schwabe taught criminal justice at Hendersonville High School, where he remembered Swift as a student. His family said he cared for her like one of his own daughters. In 2009, as Swift’s fame grew, he left teaching and joined her security team at her father’s request, helping protect the singer he had known since her teenage years.
