Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom disagree about space
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a pop star and an actor spend time apart, a TikTok star explains her relationship with an older and emotionally unavailable actor, and Hilary Duff reminds us about her album from 10 years ago.
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I have had Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom on Gossip Time’s Official Breakup Watch since March of 2023. They, um, hmm. How to put this? They don’t like each other. But they have been together, on and off, since 2016. They got engaged in 2019 (but never married), had a daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom in 2020, and journeyed to the woo-woo therapy retreat The Hoffman Process to try to fix their relationship in 2023. All that work was, perhaps, for naught: The tabloids pretty much all decided this week that they are done.
As we know, Perry, 40, has had a tough year, career-wise, and the Great Girlboss Space Vacay did not help matters. “Katy was deeply frustrated following the reception of her new album,” a source told People, referring to 143, which came out (and flopped) in September. “It made her very stressed. Orlando was understanding, but it did cause some tension.”
Another source told The Sun that Bloom, 48, was not in support of Perry’s space mission (though he did show up to watch the launch). “From day one, Orlando didn't think going on the Blue Origin mission was a good idea, and knew she would face backlash,” the source said. “He always thought it was a stupid idea, and she wouldn't get anything positive out of it.”
Us Weekly, meanwhile, reports that Bloom and Perry’s relationship is on its last legs and all their friends are gossiping about it. “They’ve grown apart and aren’t living the same lives anymore,” a source told the tabloid. “It’s an unspoken thing that they are having issues and have for a while now. Everyone around them knows.”
Another source added that the couple “never set a date for the wedding or got around to planning anything and Orlando is ‘over it.’”
Damn. A source put it even more succinctly to Page Six: “It’s over. They are waiting ’til her tour is over before they split.”
Perry’s tour, which looks and sounds like this, btw…
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…continues until December 7.
In the meantime, Page Six claims Bloom has been spending a lot of time in Miami. He also just underwent a $13,000 pseudoscientific blood-filtering procedure cooked up by Scooter Braun’s ex-wife Yael Cohen Braun:
I wonder if he will still do Perry the honor of being her date to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s looming wedding/eco-disaster in Venice at the end of the month. Perry definitely has to be there; she was on Sanchez’s bachelorette trip to Paris last month and is probably a flower girl for all we know. If Bloom doesn’t show up, we’ll know it’s really over.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Hilary Duff celebrated the 10th anniversary of her underrated last album Breathe In. Breathe Out. yesterday:
I don’t want to get overly excited, but it sounds like she is planning to record new music.
Finally, I must leave you with a depressing update in the Delaney Rowe/B.J. Novak relationship saga:
On the new podcast “Boy Problems,” Rowe, the 29-ish-year-old TikTok star, told host Liz Plank that she’s dating someone, but she’s not “fully boo’d up,” but it’s “going okay.” Apparently, her almost-boyfriend (presumably Novak, the 45-year-old former star of The Office) is making her work for it because she wasn’t initially ready for commitment when they started dating. “I’ve had to sort of rap for my motherfuckin’ life on this one,” she said. Oh dear.
(Plank, incidentally, is a former co-host of Justin Baldoni’s “Man Enough” podcast; she distanced herself from him after Blake Lively sued him for sexual harassment and retaliation in December.)
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I'm always suspicious of couples who have reallllllly long engagements AND have a baby. It's like, you've made the ultimate commitment!! Fish or cut bait, people!
And speaking of relationships that don't sound like ANY fun, Delany and BJ sound like their's is....awesome. O_o Yikes.
The Delaney clip … that is such a red flag, that whole answer … run, girl, run!!! He is the problem!!!