Katy Perry suffers X-rated wardrobe malfunction as her tiny bra bursts open mid performance during latest stop of her tour in Las Vegas
Katy Perry suffered an X- rated wardrobe malfunction when her bra burst opened as she took to the stage in Las Vegas amid her Lifetimes Tour.
The songstress, 40, was energetically performing 2010 hit Part Of Me and while running across the stage in a tiny two piece, before her metallic top opened at the back.
The singer is currently well into her mammoth 84 date tour, launched following the release of her poorly received and arguably ill-conceived seventh studio album, 143.
Perry declared: 'Oh S*** my bra is going to come off!' but ever the professionals, continued dancing before a member of her crew rushed to help.
'Put my bra back on Patrick' she said as a man made his way on stage and worked tirelessly to fix the clasp while the audience cheered.
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Perry then joked the audience 'hadn't paid enough' to see her topless, before continuing with the show.
It comes after the stunner left fans speechless while performing in Nevada when she singled out one of her bewildered fans.
Dressed in a leotard and fishnet tights, she crouched on her haunches as she searched for her target in the audience before accusing him of repeatedly sending private messages to her fiancé, Orlando Bloom.
Looking down at the stunned fan - referred to as Kyle - she warned: 'I know why you're here. Listen, if you keep DM-ing my man... you've been doing it for months, ever since the residency. You didn't come to see me play.'
As the crowd roared their approval, she continued: 'If you keep on DM-ing my man I'm going to have you removed - seriously, get your own life.'
Raising her voice, she added: 'He don't want you, Kyle. I'm his wife. I'm his, he's mine... stay the f**k away.'
Standing close to the stage, Kyle looked stunned as he turned to his friends while Perry worked her way back into the set-list.
Fortunately for him, the outburst was a scripted stunt employed by Perry as a means of interacting with her audience before launching into her 2024 single I'm His, He's Mine.
'Put my bra back on Patrick' she said as a man made his way on stage and worked tirelessly to fix the clasp while the audience cheered
Meanwhile it emerged she has not been invited back to continue her Las Vegas residency as her career continues to suffer from the backlash of her Blue Origin space trip and disastrous world tour.
The California Gurls singer has faced an onslaught of criticism over her 11-minute space flight which saw her join Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez for the all-female trip in April.
Shortly after the flight, Perry kicked off her Lifetimes tour in support of her seventh studio album, 143, which was widely panned by critics on its release in September.
The tour has suffered from a series of setbacks - including a delayed start in Minnesota that forced fans to stand around for hours - that have led to low ticket sales and canceled dates.
In her latest blow, sources revealed that the Teenage Dream hitmaker is not welcome back to Resorts World Las Vegas after the hotel slammed her last residency as a 'disaster' that ended up costing them money.
'The residency was a disaster for Resorts World, a complete failure,' a source told NewsNation's Paula Froelich.
Perry kicked off PLAY at the luxury hotel on December 29, 2021, and went on to do short stints throughout 2022 and 2023.
Inspired by the looks of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Pee-wee's Playhouse and Pee-wee's Big Adventure, the songstress described the show as 'larger than life' and 'the kookiest, most camp show I've ever put together.'
Consisting of a set of 19 songs, including E.T., Dark Horse, California Gurls, Waking Up in Vegas, I Kissed a Girl, Never Really Over, Teenage Dream, Roar and the show-stopping Firework.
However, Resorts World allegedly lost money while keeping Perry's extravagant show on.
'There was a bidding war between Resorts World and Caesars … and Caesars technically lost out — but in the end, Caesars won,' the source said.
'Katy was getting paid between $750,000 and $900,000 a show because of the bidding war and the entire run she underperformed and Resorts World lost money.'
The former American Idol judge has been suffering severe backlash ever since her space tourist trip on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 mission.
Perry was seen floating inside the capsule holding a daisy in a nod to her four-year-old daughter Daisy, whom she shares with her fiancé Bloom.
She was ridiculed on landing back to Earth and emerging with the flower in hand which she held to the sky before dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.
She then proceeded to claim she was 'super connected to love' and thanked a reporter who incorrectly referred to her as an astronaut.
'It's not about singing my songs. It's about a collective energy in there. It's about us. It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,' she said in a post-flight interview.
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Film cans would be sent back to LA for daily processing film. This was shot in Malta. And we found out that the film cans were actually being used to ship cocaine back and forth to this set. Everyone was stoned.' Williams, in the midst of his heavy narcotics phase, disliked his director, and referred to the set as 'Stalag Altman'. Oddly, his performance was more soporific than stimulated, perhaps as a result of the unusual effects cocaine had on him; he later confessed in an interview that 'Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down.' Yet the anything-goes atmosphere translated into a near-incomprehensible narrative that nobody appeared to have any clue how to turn into an enjoyable film. Fearing utter chaos, execs simply cancelled production when the budget reached $20 million, and Altman, complete with film canisters' worth of cocaine, had to return to Hollywood and edit together what he had. It's a wonder, considering everything, that the picture isn't even worse. 8. Caddyshack (1980) Belushi was not a part of the Harold Ramis-directed golf comedy Caddyshack, but his influence could be felt on set regardless, not least because of the sheer amount of drugs that were consumed. As one young actor, 19-year-old Peter Berkrot put it, 'I had never seen cocaine before I got to the set of Caddyshack.' He was soon to be introduced to it, and in considerable quantities. Its users justified their actions by claiming that it was of a superior quality. As another actor, Hamilton Mitchell, put it, 'I would never recommend drugs to anyone. But this was really good cocaine. Pure, like they had just beaten it out of a leaf in Colombia and somebody had carried the leaf to us and turned it into powder in front of us just so we knew how pure it was.' Organic qualities of the drug aside, it turned the set into a strange, bacchanalian place, where dealers were omnipresent and where actors would turn their per diems – daily expenses handed out in cash – into drugs. Weed had made films such as Easy Rider slurring, slow environments, but the mania that cocaine led to meant that the picture was made in a perpetual frenzy. The actor Michael O'Keefe, who was on set for 11 weeks, called it 'a permanent party'. 'Cocaine was everywhere,' he recalled. 'It was driving everyone. People would come into your dressing room with salt shakers and it would be lunch and someone would say, 'Do you want to do a line?' 'Yeah, sure!' It was no big deal. This was the '70s. No one thought anything was wrong about it. Those of us that did it got sucked into the whole bacchanalian rave of it, and believe me when I tell you we went as mad as any of the ancient Greeks.' The finished film – for better or for worse – lives entirely up to this madness. The subplot about the cast (including Bill Murray and Chevy Chase) being frustrated by an omnipresent gopher, in particular, has a Loony Tunes-esque quality that suggests that it was dreamt up in a cocaine-fuelled frenzy, and remains one of the film's strangest, yet most enduring, facets. 9. Dazed and Confused (1993) Today, Richard Linklater is one of Hollywood's most venerated directors, an eclectic filmmaker whose carefully considered pictures normally receive critical raves. Three decades ago, it was quite a different story. When the 33-year-old director began making his cult coming-of-age picture Dazed and Confused, he was keen to have his young cast behave as naturally as possible. Arguably, he took this to extremes. Ben Affleck, who appeared in an early role, later recalled that the director was 'just letting all these 19-year-olds hang out and get drunk and get stoned and run around the hotel and cause trouble'. Linklater had cast many of the young actors via what he called a 'casting pizza party', in which he placed various photogenic types (including Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger) in duos and encouraged them to kiss one another to see if there was real chemistry. In some cases, this chemistry went slightly too far. Two of the actors, Milla Jovovich and Shawn Ashmore, hit it off so well that they left the set and eloped to Las Vegas, although their initial plan to marry was stymied by Jovovich only being sixteen at the time. And although Linklater made sure that the copious quantities of marijuana being smoked on camera were fake, there was a great deal of Method acting taking place. 10. The Canyons (2013) Most mainstream pictures these days are (apparently) clean-living and well-regimented, which is why we must give thanks for the sheer chaos that proliferated on the set of The Canyons, a study of sexual mores on the fringes of the film industry. Admittedly, any collaboration between Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis and Lindsay Lohan – three individuals hardly known for their restraint in public life – was likely to be an eventful one. But even by the standards of other pictures, The Canyons proved to be debauched. Lohan took the role as she wished to be taken seriously as an actress and escape her reputation as a party girl, but it did not help that she spent her nights drinking and her days hungover, often failing to turn up on set for filming. Eventually, Schrader tired of her poor behaviour and fired her – he had wanted to cast the French actress and model Leslie Coutterand instead – only for her to tearfully petition him to be reinstated by banging on his hotel room door for 90 minutes straight. Worse was to come. Lohan had been cast opposite the adult film actor James Deen, who kept disappearing from filming simulated sex scenes to go off and film the real thing. Audio later leaked of her shouting at him on set to 'do his f--king job', which, with the best will in the world, he knew rather more about than she did. When the time came for him to shoot a love scene with Lohan, the actress refused, and so Schrader stripped naked himself to put her at ease. Finally, Lohan refused to promote the picture with interviews or photoshoots, claiming that she was newly sober and that the stress of remembering what she had been through on set would cause her to relapse. Bizarrely, given everything, Schrader and Easton Ellis continue to stand by the picture; Lohan has been less effusive about it, although she has acknowledged that she was 'a pain in the ass on set'. This was, to say the least, an understatement.
