{"id":950,"date":"2026-07-06T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=950"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:17:53","slug":"taylor-swifts-former-teacher-bodyguard-dies-day-of-travis-kelce-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s Former Teacher, Bodyguard Dies Day of Travis Kelce Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Adam Sandler&#8217;s Marriage Advice to Taylor Swift &amp; Travis Kelce Revealed After Officiating Wedding<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><strong>Kirk Schwabe<\/strong>\u00a0was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s No. 1 fan, forever and always.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0former Chicago police officer\u2014who taught Swift in high school before becoming one of her bodyguards in the early years of her career\u2014died following a battle with cancer on July 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1421663\/taylor-swift-marries-travis-kelce-at-msg-wedding-all-the-details-celebs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">the same day Swift wed<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/travis_kelce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Travis Kelce<\/a> <\/strong>in New York City, Schwabe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/07\/04\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-aunt-robin-gentry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">family told <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>. He was 69.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad had a remarkable way of making people feel seen, valued, and protected,\u201d his daughter told the outlet. \u201cWhether you were family, one of his students, or someone like Taylor whose path crossed his, he cared deeply about people. That\u2019s the legacy he leaves behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, Schwabe\u2019s path first crossed Swift\u2019s in 2004, two years before she\u2019d release her <em>Debut <\/em>album, when he taught her criminal justice at her Nashville high school. Just five years later, at the request of her family he quit his teaching job to become her bodyguard as her career began to reach new heights.<\/p>\n<p>Schwabe recalled this period of the Grammy winner\u2019s life in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-childhood-friends-photos-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">an interview with <em>the Telegraph<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in the days before his passing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Sandler&#8217;s Marriage Advice to Taylor Swift &amp; Travis Kelce Revealed After Officiating Wedding Kirk Schwabe\u00a0was Taylor Swift\u2019s No. 1 fan, forever and always.\u00a0 The\u00a0former Chicago police officer\u2014who taught Swift in high school before becoming one of her bodyguards in the early years of her career\u2014died following a battle with cancer on July 3, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260705\/510cdbc8-83e6-473e-a11d-122a8881e6b4_1783269615.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}