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Good news for the Kelce family as Ed and Donna set to remarry after 10years apart
Ed and Donna Kelce give advice about raising professional athletes, and share what it was like raising Jason and Travis.
Travis and Jason Kelce are NFL stars whose celebrity has transcended football, and their parents, Ed and Donna Kelce, share the spotlight with them.
Game after game, Ed and Donna Kelce are spotted cheering on their sons, especially as Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs advance to Super Bowl 58, held Feb. 11.
All eyes are on where Donna Kelce will set at the big game, and next to whom (cough, Taylor Swift). Swift, who’s been spotted attending Chiefs games since late September 2023 when her romance with Travis Kelce blossomed, has been captured sharing laughs with Donna and Ed Kelce from box seats.
In February 2023, Ed and Donna Kelce became the first-ever NFL parents to have sons on opposite sides of a matchup on football’s biggest stage. Travis Kelce, a Chiefs tight end, and Jason Kelce, a center with the Philadelphia Eagles, competed against each other in the Super Bowl — and Donna Kelce had a jacket that ensured she was cheering on both teams.
Below, find out what Donna and Ed Kelce have shared about their relationship, separation and sons.
Donna was the first person in her family to graduate from college
While appearing on a parents episode of the Kelce brothers’ podcast, “New Heights,” Feb. 6 prior to the 2023 Super Bowl, Donna Kelce, née Blalock, said that she grew up in inner city Cleveland in a “small house” with her grandparents living upstairs.
After moving to the suburbs in fourth grade, the mom of two said her own mother was “very ill” and passed away when she was 12 and her brother was 10. Following her biological mother’s death, Donna Kelce said her dad married a “wonderful human being” named Mary.
“(Mary) raised Don and I,” Donna Kelce said, referring to her brother. “And, by the grace of God, if we didn’t have her, I don’t think we would have made it through.”
Mary motivated Donna Kelce to go to college, despite the reluctance of her father, who wanted her to attend secretarial school. After earning a degree in broadcast communications from Ohio University, Donna Kelce became the first person in her family to graduate from college.
But Donna Kelce chose not to pursue a career in communications. She went back to school for her masters and ended up in banking.
Ed comes from a long line of military veterans. On the same podcast episode with his sons, Ed Kelce said he was the oldest of two children and grew up in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.
“He came up to me with the illustrious pickup line, which was, ‘Did you say Joe?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘Oh I thought you said Joe.’ I said, ‘Is your name Joe?’ And he said, ‘No, it’s Ed,'” she recalled, as the three of them laughed.
But Donna Kelce had another date she was supposed to be at while chatting the night away with Ed Kelce.
“I was supposed to go out with a guy that night. We were supposed to go to a play and I never made it,” she said. “Your dad and I talked forever … It was meant to be. It’s just the way it was.”
Ed Kelce said that he didn’t remember that his former wife stood up her date, nor that he used that pickup line.
early on, they stayed together for the kids.
“If we had split as we probably both would have preferred, that would have been a nightmare with the logistics, getting kids where they had to be and providing all the support,” Ed Kelce said in “Kelce”.
Recently there has been rumors of Ed and Donna getting back to and both of them confirmed it in a short video today