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New York Post
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Katy Perry suffers near wardrobe malfunction after her bra pops off onstage in Vegas
You know what they say about California Gurls. Katy Perry came dangerously close to suffering a wardrobe malfunction when her bra broke during her Las Vegas show over the weekend. The 'Fireworks' singer, 40, was running around on the stage on Saturday, May 17, in a bejeweled bra top, matching underwear and thigh-high boots while singing her hit 'Part of Me' when her mic pack appeared too heavy for the tiny strap. Advertisement Seemingly popping open, Perry abruptly halted on the stage during her 'Lifetimes' tour. 9 Katy Perry's bra mishap happened on Saturday in Las Vegas. Justin Paludipan / 9 The singer had been running around on the stage when she suddenly stopped. alrod_182/TikTok Advertisement Thankfully, Perry was quick on her feet and grabbed the back of the rhinestone bra just in time to prevent an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction. 'Oh s–t, my bra is gonna come off,' Perry said into the microphone. The musician then summoned her assistant to the stage and asked for help fixing the wardrobe issue. Advertisement 9 Perry got assistance after declaring her bra was 'gonna come off.' Justin Paludipan / 9 She also teased the crowd that they didn't pay enough to see what's underneath. alrod_182/TikTok 'Put my bra back on, Patrick,' Perry quipped, per Us Weekly, before telling the audience, 'Sorry, guys, you didn't pay that much.' 'Wardrobe malfunction in Part of Me song by @Katy Perry in Las Vegas show 😱,' a fan who caught the near blunder captioned a TikTok video. Advertisement Fans loved the clip and left several comments praising the singer. 9 The singer kicked off her 'Lifetimes' tour in the US earlier this month. Getty Images for Katy Perry 9 The tour has been plagued with ridicule, from her costume choices to dance Katy Perry ''Sorry guys you didn't pay that much,'' one person laughed. 'This is the funniest thing I've ever seen,' shared a second. Perry started the US leg of her 'Lifetimes Tour' on May 7 after being launched into space as part of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space mission. Her tour has been plagued with controversy, with haters accusing her of tailoring the outfits, choreography and several props as a homage to her highly-critiqued space voyage. Perry faced further backlash this weekend when it was claimed that she's allegedly no longer wanted in Sin City after her three-year residency at Resorts World reportedly tanked, losing the hotel and casino money. 9 People also accused her of tailoring the tour to pay homage to her controversial space Katy Perry Advertisement 9 Katy Perry was launched into space as part of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mission. BLUE ORIGIN/AFP via Getty Images 'The residency was a disaster for Resorts World, a complete failure,' a source told Paula Froelich of NewsNation. 'There was a bidding war between Resorts World and Caesars … and Caesars technically lost out — but in the end, Caesars won,' the insider explained, before revealing how much Perry allegedly made during her stay. '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 source claimed. Advertisement 9 It's also been reported that Katy Perry's Vegas residence actually lost the casino and hotel Katy Perry The Post reached out to Perry's rep for comment. While the 'Last Friday Night' singer has yet to address the latest allegations, she did show gratitude to her die-hard fans after they launched a worldwide project to congratulate the hitmaker on her 'Lifetimes Tour' with a temporary billboard in Times Square, reading, 'Know that you are safe, seen and celebrated.' 'Please know I am ok, I have done a lot work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me. My therapist said something years ago that has been a game changer, 'No one can make you believe something about yourself that you don't already believe about yourself,' and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it's an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it,' she said in part. Advertisement She also shared that 'when the 'online' world tries to make me a human piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed.' 'What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth,' Perry concluded, referring to connecting with fans in ways other than at her shows.
Wall Street Journal
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Fiction: ‘Twelve Post-War Tales' by Graham Swift
Graham Swift offers the title of his third collection of short stories, 'Twelve Post-War Tales,' in an egalitarian spirit. The characters include ex-soldiers and war orphans but also teachers, miners, maids and other working-class Britons who know of battlefields only from textbooks and newsreels. Even these civilians, suggests Mr. Swift, have been shaped by war's carnage. Everyone lives in a postwar world. The stories layer small, private dramas over what a character calls 'the big events of history.' In 'Fireworks' a father debates whether to postpone his daughter's wedding after the outbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 'Zoo' takes place on Sept. 11, 2001, but dwells less on the terrorist attacks than on the quotidian duties of a London housekeeper and nanny. 'Where were you when?' she knows people will ask her. At the monkey exhibition explaining the facts of life to her employer's young son. A long shadow of grief looms over the tales, no matter their distance from war. 'Beauty' is a wonderful story—both heartbreaking and generous—about a bereft old man's visit to the college dorm room where his granddaughter died by suicide. In 'Hinges' a brother and sister are tongue-tied as they try to describe their father to the minister who will eulogize him. 'They didn't know what to say about their father whom they'd known all their lives. They were curiously at a loss. At a loss. Exactly.' Loss is an imaginative wellspring for this author, whose fiction includes the 1996 Booker Prize-winner, 'Last Orders,' which relates the journey of three World War II veterans to scatter a friend's ashes. Mr. Swift's writing is fluent and colloquial. The characters in this collection share their thoughts and memories with the reader as though with a close friend, and the warmth of their confidences balances against their sadness. We feel we've been in the trenches with them, even when a story has gone no farther than the living room.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Emily Ratajkowski Says She's ‘Disgusted' By Katy Perry's Trip To Space, And Many Agree
Emily Ratajkowski is pointing out how Katy Perry's trip to space didn't seem to have much of a point. On Monday, the successful model and author very candidly expressed her thoughts about Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origins, sending six women, including the 'Fireworks' singer, into space earlier that day. The flight on the company's New Shepard spacecraft, which also included other noteworthy passengers — including journalist Gayle King and Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sánchez — lasted roughly 11 minutes round trip. 'That space mission this morning? That's end-time shit. Like, this is beyond parody,' Ratajkowski said in a TikTok published to her account Monday. 'Saying that you care about Mother Earth and it's about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's single-handedly destroying the planet?' Ratajkowski continued, 'Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what? What was the marketing there?' 'And then to try to make it…' Ratajkowski said, before trailing off. 'I'm disgusted. Literally, I'm disgusted.' Ratajkowski did make some valid points in her video. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducted a study in 2022 that found that the significant uptick in spaceflight activity, thanks to tourism companies like Blue Origin, could damage Earth's ozone layer. 'Kerosene-burning rocket engines widely used by the global launch industry emit exhaust containing black carbon, or soot, directly into the stratosphere,' NOAA said in 2022. And although it's unclear how much the whole fiasco cost, it's safe to assume it was likely pretty pricey. In 2021, Blue Origins revealed the highest bid for a seat on its New Shepard spacecraft was $28 million, Reuters reports. The outlet also noted that not all passengers have to pay for their seat, however, being that William Shatner of 'Star Trek' fame flew free of charge that same year. It's also unclear why these six women were sent to space. But the Blue Origins marketing department sure wants you to believe that the launch was some big 'girl power' win for feminism because it marked the first time in over 60 years that women have gone to space solo. Perry also lent her signature hamminess to hype up her visit to space as more than just a glorified ad for a travel company. She sang 'What a Wonderful World' for her fellow passengers while they were in zero gravity; kissed the ground with utmost respect for the Earth once they landed; and made a show of honoring her 4-year-old daughter Daisy Dove by emerging from the rocket's capsule proudly holding a daisy over her head. But Ratajkowski isn't the only one who refused to buy into Blue Origin's spin that this flight was somehow significant. Ratajkowski's TikTok video received over 4,000 comments, and many users expressed similar frustrations. Many called the space flight 'incredibly out of touch' and pointed out that Bezos' other company, Amazon, has halted some of its DEI programs, making the feminist slant of the launch hypocritical. 'Dying at the fact Katy Perry 100% thinks it's peak feminism, like, no one has done more in the name of feminism than what she did by getting on that ship,' one TikToker said. 'They acted like it was a win for feminism. The money used to send them to space could have been used to actually help women in so many ways,' another user pointed out. 'THE FLIGHT LASTED 11 MINS HOW WAS IT WORTH ALL THAT,' said another. 'That money could've gone to literally any other marginalized group! Single mothers, foster children, mental health services, terminally ill etc,' a TikToker wrote.
Ammon
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Ammon
Singer Katy Perry sang ‘What a Wonderful World' in space
Ammon News - American singer Katy Perry delivered on her promise to sing in space. The 'Fireworks' singer blasted off on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 craft alongside Jeff Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sanchez and TV host Gayle King on Monday. In a video shared via Instagram late Sunday, Perry showed fans inside the rocket that 'we have been training in for the last few days.' She told followers: 'I think I'm gonna sing, sing a little bit. I gotta sing in space!' After the rocket had landed safely, King told her CBS Mornings colleagues that Perry had sung 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong. Perry then told reporters of her song choice: 'I've covered that song in the past and obviously my higher self is always steering the ship because I had no idea that one day I'd be singing that song in space.' Perry, Sanchez and King were also joined on the flight by former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. The rocket lifted off as part of Blue Origin Flight NS-31 on at 8:30 a.m. local time. The craft flew through space for around four minutes before floating back down to Earth, with the entire journey taking a little over 10 minutes. Independent
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Katy Perry sang ‘What a Wonderful World' in space, Gayle King reveals
Katy Perry delivered on her promise to sing in space. The 'Fireworks' singer blasted off on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 craft alongside Jeff Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sanchez and TV host Gayle King on Monday. In a video shared via Instagram late Sunday, Perry showed fans inside the rocket that 'we have been training in for the last few days.' She told followers: 'I think I'm gonna sing, sing a little bit. I gotta sing in space!' After the rocket had landed safely, King told her CBS Mornings colleagues that Perry had sung 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong. Perry then told reporters of her song choice: 'I've covered that song in the past and obviously my higher self is always steering the ship because I had no idea that one day I'd be singing that song in space.' Perry, Sanchez and King were also joined on the flight by former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. The rocket lifted off as part of Blue Origin Flight NS-31 on at 8:30 a.m. local time. The craft flew through space for around four minutes before floating back down to Earth, with the entire journey taking a little over 10 minutes. Following the flight, both King and Perry kissed the West Texas Earth. 'I don't really have words for it,' said Sanchez in an interview following the flight. She said they got to see the moon. 'Earth looked, just so quiet.' 'To go to space is incredible and I wanted to model courage and worthiness and fearlessness,' said Perry. 'It is the highest high and it is surrender to the unknown,' she added. 'I couldn't recommend this experience more.' The trip represented the first female-only space mission in more than six decades. Earlier on Sunday, Perry said she had been given 'confirmation' that her journey aboard the rocket on April 14 was written in the stars. In a video posted to Instagram, she said she is 'always looking for little confirmations from the heavens, from my guides, from my angels, from my higher self.' 'When I was invited to come on this voyage, I looked up the capsule. On the very front of it is the outline in the shape of a feather and when I saw that it was like a total confirmation because my mum has always called me feather,' she said. 'And so I'm in space training today and there's a lot to digest. We're almost finished with the day and they showed us the capsule and we run simulations in another capsule and tested the noise and what to expect and all these different things and they reveal the capsule name. 'The capsule's name is Tortoise. A wave, just the most energetic wave, just shot through my body. And I was like, 'What? This capsule's name is Tortoise?' 'My mum calls me two nicknames. Feather and tortoise. What are the chances that I'm going to space on a rocket in a capsule with my symbol, the feather, called Tortoise?' She added: 'There are no coincidences, and I'm just so grateful for these confirmations and so grateful that I feel like something bigger than me is steering the ship.' It was the 11th human flight for the Blue Origin program, which has taken passengers, including the company's billionaire founder, Bezos, to space since 2021. Sanchez said the mission was about inspiring others to 'dream big' and praised the women on board as 'incredible storytellers.'
