Kayla Nicole up about the challenges she’s faced since her public breakup with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in 2022.

Competing on Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 3, Nicole addressed how online trolling has impacted her emotionally and personally.

During the intense competition series, Nicole reflected on her five-year on-and-off relationship with Kelce and the scrutiny that followed. “Going through a public breakup… it’s been overwhelming,” Nicole shared, adding that she feels “reduced to a headline” as Kelce’s ex-girlfriend.

Nicole revealed that Kelce’s high-profile relationship with Taylor Swift has only intensified the trolling. “It’s exhausting… people compare me to [Kelce’s] new situation, and it makes me question my value as a person and a partner,” she confessed.

Despite the negativity, Nicole passed a grueling bungee jump challenge, breaking down in tears afterward. “I’m proud of the mental fortitude it’s taken to get here,” she said, vowing to tap into her inner strength to complete the competition.

The claims came after the Cincinnati Bengals ended the season as one of the hottest teams in the NFL, winning five in a row, but needed the Chiefs to beat the Broncos to have a chance to make it to the postseason.

Jason Kelce Gets Emotional Seeing Eagles in Playoffs Without Him After Retiring

The Philadelphia Eagles are playing in the postseason for the first time since former Eagles center Jason Kelce retired last March. For Kelce, who played for the Eagles from 2011-23, it’s bittersweet to see his former team at this point in the season without him.

“I’m very much happy for all of the guys there, all of the coaches, all of the players,” Kelce said this week on Sports Radio 94WIP. “Of course, I’m one season out of it so I do have some part of me that wishes I could be there, be a part of something like this. It was my time, I still feel like I made the right decision. This is the way it goes. It’s been fortunate that it’s happened this quickly for the Eagles.”

Really cool seeing Jason Kelce visibly emotional once a caller asked how he felt about watching this team in the playoffs without him — Sam Stafford (Wilson) (@SamStafff) January 17, 2025

“I know I’m not out there playing the game. To a certain extent I think that I still have had an impact on Stout [Offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland] in his career and some of these guys in their career. Cam Jurgens and Jalen Hurts … I was a part of them learning and adjusting and welcoming them to the league … In some ways I still feel I’m a part of the team if I’m being quite frank even though my impact is far, far, far less.”

“Would love to be out there with those guys going to battle. It’s more just immense pride that they’re getting it done.”

Though he is now retired, Kelce did experience plenty of success with the Eagles. Kelce and the Eagles won Super Bowl LII, and also made another trip to the Super Bowl in 2023, but lost to his brother, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kelce might not be on the field, but he is very much still cheering on the Eagles into his retirement. He was in attendance for the Eagles’ wild-card win over the Green Bay Packers last Sunday, even signing jerseys for fans from a suite. Kelce will likely continue to root for his former team this Sunday, when the Eagles face the Los Angeles Rams in the divsional round.

See More: Patrick Mahomes debunks Trump’s claim that Senator Tommy Tuberville coached and recruited him

‘I don’t remember if I ever got to meet him or not,’ says Kansas City Chiefs quarterback

Patrick Mahomes has contradicted claims by Donald Trump that Alabama’s Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville coached and recruited the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. Mahomes told The Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that he’s not even sure he ever met the guy.

During the president’s executive order signing on Wednesday, Trump praised Tuberville, claiming that he had both coached and recruited Mahomes while he was at Texas Tech University.

“Tommy Tuberville, a great coach,” said Trump, who’s attending the Super Bowl Sunday in New Orleans between the Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. “You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach.”

Trump said he asked Tuberville, referring to Mahomes: ”How good was he?” The president said Tuberville responded: “You don’t want to know how good … he made me into a great coach.”

Trump added: “He’s a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was very good, and he’s a good guy too.”

Many were quick to point out on X that Mahomes and Tuberville never even worked together. Tuberville coached from 2010 to 2012 while Mahomes played football at the school from 2014 to 2016.

“Donald Trump said that Senator Tommy Tuberville coached Patrick Mahomes. Tommy Tubesocks left Texas Tech in 2012, two years before Mahomes arrived,” one post read.

The quarterback unequivocably told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday: “He did not recruit me at the time. I don’t remember if I ever got to meet him or not.”

Tuberville appeared to attempt to clarify the men’s relationship in a post on X, yet continued to imply that the two of them had a history. “As a coach, you start recruiting and working with players years before they get to college,” he wrote.

“Patrick Mahomes was one of the best players I ever had the opportunity to recruit and get to know. Looking forward to cheering him on this weekend when I join President Trump at the Super Bowl,” he added.

Trump announced on Tuesday that he would be attending this year’s big game at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, making him the first sitting president to watch the Super Bowl in person.

Mahomes commented in a press conference about Trump’s attendance, telling reporters: “It’s always cool to be able to play in front of a sitting president – someone that is at the top position in our country.”

Trump (right) recently congratulated Mahomes (left) on the birth of his third child (Getty Images)

Mahomes was also asked about Trump’s previous comments when he called the Chiefs quarterback “a good winner.”

“I don’t want to say, but there’s a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner,” Trump said when asked what team he would be rooting for.

Mahome said: “It’s cool to hear that he’s seen me play football and respects the game that I play.”

Trump also congratulated Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, on the birth of their third child, one month after the two of them shared the news.

“Congratulations to the Chiefs GREAT Quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, and his very beautiful and BRILLIANT wife, Brittany, on the birth of their new baby daughter, Golden Raye,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform Thursday.

“This is what I call a baby with great genes, both mother and father. It’s happy times in the wonderful Mahomes family. See you all on Sunday!”