Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry’s relationship imploded after the singer made her embarrassing journey into space — and now the embattled couple is sparring over who will attend the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
The pair were already on the rocks when Perry made the widely-derided 11-minute trip to space in April. The Blue Origin flight, led by Sánchez, quickly became a PR disaster.
Perry, in particular, became the internet’s punching bag for her eccentric actions, hogging the camera while holding up a daisy – a nod to her daughter – in zero gravity, before bizarrely dropping to her knees and kissing the ground on touchdown.
But she received little to no support from Bloom who blasted the ’embarrassing’ debacle during an explosive row.
‘He told her the whole thing looked ridiculous,’ a source in Perry’s camp told the Daily Mail. ‘He said it was cringeworthy. Embarrassing. This was in the middle of a fight, and it hurt her feelings.’
‘Of course she was hurt,’ the source continued. ‘Imagine going to space — motherf****** space — and your partner isn’t impressed. She hoped he’d be more supportive.’
Far from resolving their issues, tensions heightened as talk turned to who was going to attend Bezos and Sánchez’s upcoming nuptials.
The three-day celebration will reportedly kick off on June 24 in Venice, Italy.
Bloom, 48, is on the guest list, but Perry, 40, will not be present at the celebrations, according to TMZ.
‘She does have prior commitments, but it goes deeper than that,’ our insider said, noting that the singer will still be on tour in Australia, which she first announced months before the wedding date and location were unveiled.
‘Katy feels like they’re really her friends more than his, and yet he’s the one going to the wedding’ they continued.
‘And he’s insistent that he goes, which annoys her because he’s not particular close to either of them. She feels like it’s a ‘f*** you’ to her from him.’
What really stings is his apparent hypocrisy. ‘He complains about her going to space, and then wants to go to the wedding of the people who made it possible for her to do this in the first place,’ our insider said.
‘That’s difficult for her to accept. They’re already spiraling and now the wedding is another thing that they have to fight about.’
Their rocky patch comes at a time of professional turmoil for Perry, who has become the subject of hundreds of insulting internet memes.
Earlier this month People claimed Katy’s poorly-performing album 143 has caused ‘tension’ in her relationship with her fiancé.
The singer’s seventh studio album, 143, was released in September 2024, and received a largely negative response from fans as well as critics, who claimed the record sounds ‘generated through AI.’
While the album was meant to be empowering to women, critics slammed it as being reductive.
Additionally, Perry shared snaps of a topless Bloom and talked freely about the couple’s sex life, despite previous agreements to keep their personal life private, with sources at the time telling the Daily Mail that she was leveraging their romance amid the backlash.
Her Lifetimes world tour has struggled to shift tickets in some countries, and clips of her futuristic stage show have been posted on Tiktok and Instagram hundreds of times, sparking millions of critical comments and jokes about the singer.
A second source close to the couple told the Daily Mail that Bloom is annoyed that Perry is not listening to his advice.
‘Katy has not been the same person for over a year now and Orlando has had enough,’ they said.
‘He advised her against this album. She did it. He advised her against space. She did it. He advised her against this tour and she did it.’
‘From where Orlando stands, all he ever wanted was for Katy to be herself,’ the source continued. ‘He fell in love with her and who she is inside but this past year, he believes, has brought out the worst in her.’
Perry and Bloom first met in January 2016. They had a brief breakup in 2017, but later reconciled by March 2018.
The pair got engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2019 and welcomed their daughter Daisy Dove in August 2020.
They were reportedly set to marry in Japan in summer 2020 but were forced to postpone due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It is unclear if the couple will survive this rough patch, but Bloom feels that Perry needs to center herself on the things that are important.
‘He wants her to be happy and he wants her to be authentic,’ the insider continued. ‘He just wants her to stop and enjoy the life that she has built.’
