It’s the romance of the moment
For months, the sightings were obscure and long-distance, more worthy of Arctic nature photographs than foci pages. In July, they were seen walking a dog and then having dinner at a restaurant in Montreal. And then, a confused silence, while the – were they really? – the new couple retired into a summer hibernation.
It wasn’t until September that a whale-watching trip in California had the greatest nautical sighting of all, when a passenger photographed a romantic couple entwined atop a yacht from a distance.
When he zoomed in on the image, the photographer recognized former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by his indigenous tattoo, but apparently didn’t recognize the incredibly famous pop star Katy Perry because they were flirting on her motor yacht, the 78-foot Caravelle.
It seemed like there was something between them.
It was a very strange year for both of us. Trudeau who would resign in January, leaving Canada to deal alone with its current conflict with America; it was replaced in April.
That same month, Perry resigned from the planet, participating in a strangely disastrous celebrity attack on Earth’s thermosphere. She, Gayle King and Bezos’ then-future fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, took Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket to the nearest edge of space.
For some reason difficult to define, this trip made Perry a laughing stock. Was it the moment of shame when she kissed the ground when she returned? Could it have been the fact that the crew was all women? Was it the fact that they essentially burned a bunch of money without any purpose, while it seemed like the world was already burning? Or were these bad vibes coming from Perry herself – some nefarious negative PR campaign run by Orlando Bloom? For, as would soon be known, she was separating from her fiancé, old Legolas.
Whatever the reason, Katy Perry went overnight from “pop royalty to America’s favorite joke.”
It was only his slow romantic move north that kept his brand out of a deep crisis. Trudeau made her the target of a kinder kind of joke: “Katy Perry releases new single about the superiority of Canadian production”, he quipped. This heartland trade war is paying dividends.
They are now officially out of the closet and we know it because Pop Crave says it: “Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau are officially dating,” the gossip account posted over the weekend.
And here she is, triumphant on the front page of all the best English tabloids. Saturday was his birthday. He threw a big party at the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris. She and Trudeau not only held hands but apparently left the party together. Honestly, they were great.
