Katy Perry tearfully thanks fans at Australia concert
The 40-year-old is almost a third of the way through her 2025 Lifetimes World Tour, which launched in late April and heads back to North America in mid-July to weave around the West Coast and Canada.
Katy Perry's essentials: Shows fueled by espresso, a 'California crunchy' diet, meditating
Perry's tour schedule overlapped with the highly anticipated - and controversially luxe - wedding between Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez. Over the weekend, Perry's fiancee, Orlando Bloom, flew solo as he attended various pre-wedding festivities.
Bloom was just one of the A-listers in a star-studded list of guests that included Sydney Sweeney, Oprah Winfrey, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, and Tom Brady.
She and Bloom started dating in 2016, briefly split in 2017 and got engaged in February 2019. Daisy Dove Bloom was born in August 2020.
Orlando Bloom posts about new beginnings, taking 'that first step'
After the lavish wedding weekend, Bloom posted some inspirational quotes on his Instagram Story on June 30. In the first slide, he re-posted a translated quote from the Buddha that read, "Each day is a new beginning. What we do today is what matters most."
In a following post, Bloom typed up a "daily encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda," a prominent Japanese religious figure and Buddhist, who died at age 95 in 2023, whom Bloom has long admired.
"The important thing is to take that first step. Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next," Bloom wrote in his Story.
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