Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's pal shares blunt take on couple's split rumours
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's relationship "is on the rocks," a friend has claimed.
Reports emerged last week the couple, who got engaged in February 2019, are navigating a break-up, talk fuelled when Katy, 40, was seen without her signature ruby engagement ring. It has since been claimed Orlando, 48, will attend Jeff Bezos' wedding in Venice alone, and not with his partner as first planned.
A friend of the pair has told Mail Online: "Unfortunately they are on the rocks... I'm afraid it does not look promising." Their bleak assessment of the relationship, which began in 2016, comes after other sources shared their pessimism. An insider told the New York Post: "It's over. They're just waiting until the tour is done before they split."
Katy's The Lifeime Tours is currently in Australia and moves to the US next month. It doesn't finish, though, until December, after Katy performs across the UK. She currently has the couple's daughter, Daisy Dove, with her, it is understood.
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom 'waiting to announce their split' after secret 'break-up'
On stage in Sydney recently, Katy took a chocolate Tim Tam biscuit – an Australian brand – from a fan and said: "This song is about a break-up, and this Tim Tam saved me." She was in the middle of performing her 2008 heartbreak anthem I'm Still Breathing.
And Katy has, indeed, experienced her own share of heartbreak since then. The singer was on the road in Asia in 2012 when then husband Russell Brand requested - by text - a divorce, despite "running herself ragged" trying to keep that flame alive.
Throughout her two-year marriage with Russell, Katy had couples' therapy, while she and Orlando also had sessions during their engagement, it is believed. In one of her last interviews concerning her relationship, Katy, from Santa Barbara, California, said: "He's very sensitive. Very emotionally evolved. He gets up at 7am and chants for an hour. One of the things that binds us is our desire to be more spiritually evolved, and our desire to investigate that realm."
And, of Katy, Orlando has said: "We're in two very different pools [for work]. Her pool is not a pool that I necessarily understand, and I think my pool is not a pool that she necessarily understands. Sometimes things are really, really, really challenging. I won't lie. We definitely battle with our emotions and creativity."
The UK leg of Katy's tour, which starts in October in Belfast, will see the ten-time Grammy nominee visit Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham and London. She then takes the tour across Europe and Asia, ending the run in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on December 7.
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