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Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Katy Perry reveals she wrote THIS song after her first divorce; gets emotional during the concert
, the pop star and her one that got away fiancé, , split up after being in an on-and-off relationship for nine years. While the 40-year-old singer is healing, she got candid about the song she wrote after her first divorce in front of her fans during the concert in California on Tuesday, July 14, 2025. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Katy Perry gets emotional during the tour According to People, Katy had an overwhelming talk with the fans during the segment 'Choose Your Own Adventure,' where fans get to vote on songs for her to perform. As the votes tallied, the results showed that the audience wanted her to sing 'Not Like the Movies.' Perry responded, 'You're gonna make me sing this song in this time in my life?" 'OK, we'll do it! Because you voted for it,' she continued, adding that the fans also voted for her classic 'The One That Got Away.' 'I let you choose the song tonight because I like to pick an album for every country that I go to, and for the U.S.A., I picked Teenage Dream because U.S.A., you could be a teenage dream baby. You better get it together. I'll always have that feeling for you,' Perry said during the show. Katy Perry wrote 'Not Like the Movies' after her first divorce Furthermore, as the show continued, Katy dropped the truth bomb and said that 'Not Like the Movies' is the song she wrote in her 20s after her first divorce. Warning her fans, the singer said that she would 'try and hold my composure while I sing it a week before my period." A couple of days earlier, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's representatives shared an official statement of their split. 'They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is — and always will be — raising their daughter [Daisy] with love, stability and mutual respect,' the statement read, as per Page Six.
Hamilton Spectator
12-06-2025
- Hamilton Spectator
Lonely Planet just published its first LGBTQ guide. Why now?
In the half-century since its first travel guide, 'Across Asia on the Cheap,' Lonely Planet has grown into a global behemoth, having sold 150 million printed guides advising budget travellers on where to go, stay and eat in destinations ranging from Scandinavia to South Africa. But until now the company had never published a stand-alone guide for LGBTQ travellers. 'The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide,' by Alicia Valenski, features more than 50 queer-friendly destinations in a coffee-table-size book, a departure from the company's usual packable paperbacks. Also unlike the usual guides, this one explores destinations such as Brooklyn, Berlin and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, entirely through local voices. Lonely Planet, which has been including a section on LGBTQ travel in its guidebooks for decades, is a strong player in digital guides through its website and app. Why was this the moment to debut a glossy guidebook that would barely fit into most backpacks? I spoke to Valenski, 32, in late April in New York. Why publish an LGBTQ travel guide now? Lonely Planet was poised to publish a book about queer travel in 2019 or 2020. And then the world stopped. And, so, once they were ready to pick it back up, it was like 2022 or 2023. And the biggest thing that keeps coming up with people is, this is such a unique format for a book. It's either a guidebook or a coffee-table book. Having a book that is by the queer community, for the queer community, in this moment, feels so empowering. Why publish in this format? I wanted to strike that balance between 'This will plan your trip for you,' versus if you texted a friend that you knew lived in the city: 'Hey, I'm coming to New York. I'm coming to Amsterdam or Madrid. Where should I go while I'm there?' You could skim this and just look at the bold points of interest, look at the map, look at the need-to-know info. Or you can read the story of the people who are giving you these recommendations, why they live there. So it's kind of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Who is your audience? I was writing it as though it was to a friend. We are giving you recommendations so you can feel happy, safe and comfortable going to these places. I really want it to be a resource for allies as well — I wonder how that will sit with people, because it does say LGBTQ in giant letters on the front. I want them to read and say, 'Wow! I had no idea that queer people had to think about that when they travel.' Online, it can be really hard to deduce what is an ad and what is not. Oftentimes, what you're seeing on your phone may be special treatment an influencer is getting. Somebody who lives there knows this is a tourist trap, and this is an authentic place where the community actually gathers and enjoys themselves. What makes you an expert on LGBTQ travel? I don't know that I'm an expert. I mean, I am bi. But my expertise, I think, is in the interviewing. How did you select the people in the book? I would follow their blogs. So thinking of Two Bad Tourists in Madrid and Spain, I just loved their story: 'We dated, but then we broke up, and now we still run a tour company together.' And then, it was kind of word-of-mouth. I did speak to (many) trans folks in the book very intentionally as well, to make sure that their perspectives were represented. One person told me that, in Malta, even if you have top surgery, you can't be topless, necessarily, at the beach. There are laws against that. How did you handle the evolving landscape of LGBTQ rights? Anything you write in print is almost immediately out of date, so part of that is, is it safe to include businesses or not? If we reached out and they were like, 'We don't want to be included or we fear for our safety,' any of that immediately would have been taken out. But most businesses were thrilled to be included. I would have liked to include more recommendations in Africa and Asia. Unfortunately, I was not able to find people who were comfortable with — if not the actual legality of homosexuality in different places — the local attitudes or treatment of queer folks. Did you leave out any places? Honestly, there were no destinations where anybody said, 'That can't be in here.' I think if I were writing it now, I would have done a little less U.S., but, at the time, it felt safe. This article originally appeared in The New York Times .
7NEWS
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Katy Perry says she 'got fresh botox for Australia'
Katy Perry says she had botox shortly after arriving in Australia. The 40-year-old pop star opened her Lifetimes Tour at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Wednesday night and admitted to her audience she had been struggling with jetlag, particularly because her and Orlando Bloom's four-year-old daughter Daisy had been waking her up at 5am, but joked any visible signs of tiredness weren't there because she'd had the wrinkle-smoothing injections. 'You can't tell I'm tired because I got fresh botox for Australia,' she told the crowd. Katy also made her audience laugh when she called for her assistant to come on stage and help her unzip her costume. She explained she was struggling with the garment 'because I've been eating too many Tim Tams'. During the Choose Your Own Adventure segment of the show, the Teenage Dream hitmaker who will be performing another 14 shows Down Under this month — invited a group of young fans on stage to sing Thinking of You with her, including one boy in a shark costume, which referenced her infamous Left Shark dancer during her 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. And that wasn't Katy's only interaction with her young fans, as at one point, she bent down from the stage to thank one supporter for 'waiting for five hours' to secure a spot on the front row. This isn't the first time Katy has confessed to having botox treatments. Last month, a satirical headline by the Onion joked Katy would be releasing a song called Stop Making Fun of Me alongside a photo of Katy taken in Melbourne last year. She quipped on Instagram in response: 'This photo is clearly photoshopped I would never let my botox go that long, do better The Onion!' Katy recently spoke of how much joy her audience brings her, particularly as she has faced a backlash largely due to her participation in Blue Origin's recent all-female space flight, as well as for working with controversial producer Dr Luke — who has been accused of abuse by Kesha — and also faced mocking over the choreography on her Lifetimes tour. She wrote on an Instagram fan account: 'What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that cos l'm not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, l'm on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but... I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS.'
West Australian
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Katy Perry says she 'got fresh botox for Australia'
Katy Perry says she had botox shortly after arriving in Australia. The 40-year-old pop star opened her Lifetimes Tour at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Wednesday night and admitted to her audience she had been struggling with jet lag, particularly because her and Orlando Bloom's four-year-old daughter Daisy had been waking her up at 5am, but joked any visible signs of tiredness weren't there because she'd had the wrinkle-smoothing injections. "You can't tell I'm tired because I got fresh botox for Australia," she told the crowd. Katy also made her audience laugh when she called for her assistant to come on stage and help her unzip her costume. She explained she was struggling with the garment "because I've been eating too many Tim Tams". During the Choose Your Own Adventure segment of the show, the Teenage Dream hitmaker - who will be performing another 14 shows Down Under this month - invited a group of young fans on stage to sing Thinking of You with her, including one boy in a shark costume, which referenced her infamous Left Shark dancer during her 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. And that wasn't Katy's only interaction with her young fans, as at one point, she bent down from the stage to thank one supporter for "waiting for five hours" to secure a spot on the front row. This isn't the first time Katy has confessed to having botox treatments. Last month, a satirical headline by the Onion joked Katy would be releasing a song called Stop Making Fun of Me alongside a photo of Katy taken in Melbourne last year. She quipped on Instagram in response: "This photo is clearly photoshopped I would never let my botox go that long, do better The Onion!" Katy recently spoke of how much joy her audience brings her, particularly as she has faced a backlash largely due to her participation in Blue Origin's recent all-female space flight, as well as for working with controversial producer Dr Luke - who has been accused of abuse by Kesha - and also faced mocking over the choreography on her Lifetimes tour. She wrote on an Instagram fan account: "What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that cos l'm not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, l'm on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but... I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS."
Perth Now
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Katy Perry says she 'got fresh botox for Australia'
Katy Perry says she had botox shortly after arriving in Australia. The 40-year-old pop star opened her Lifetimes Tour at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Wednesday night and admitted to her audience she had been struggling with jet lag, particularly because her and Orlando Bloom's four-year-old daughter Daisy had been waking her up at 5am, but joked any visible signs of tiredness weren't there because she'd had the wrinkle-smoothing injections. "You can't tell I'm tired because I got fresh botox for Australia," she told the crowd. Katy also made her audience laugh when she called for her assistant to come on stage and help her unzip her costume. She explained she was struggling with the garment "because I've been eating too many Tim Tams". During the Choose Your Own Adventure segment of the show, the Teenage Dream hitmaker - who will be performing another 14 shows Down Under this month - invited a group of young fans on stage to sing Thinking of You with her, including one boy in a shark costume, which referenced her infamous Left Shark dancer during her 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. And that wasn't Katy's only interaction with her young fans, as at one point, she bent down from the stage to thank one supporter for "waiting for five hours" to secure a spot on the front row. This isn't the first time Katy has confessed to having botox treatments. Last month, a satirical headline by the Onion joked Katy would be releasing a song called Stop Making Fun of Me alongside a photo of Katy taken in Melbourne last year. She quipped on Instagram in response: "This photo is clearly photoshopped I would never let my botox go that long, do better The Onion!" Katy recently spoke of how much joy her audience brings her, particularly as she has faced a backlash largely due to her participation in Blue Origin's recent all-female space flight, as well as for working with controversial producer Dr Luke - who has been accused of abuse by Kesha - and also faced mocking over the choreography on her Lifetimes tour. She wrote on an Instagram fan account: "What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that cos l'm not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, l'm on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but... I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS."
