I mean, he’s right…
Of course, we all heard way more than we wanted to about the Blue Origin trip to space in April, where six women, including Perry, went on a rocket into outer space for an 11-minute flight, which also included Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Lauren Sánchez and Kerianne Flynn. Perry in particular made a lot of headlines leading up to the trip (she also ended up having drama with Wendy’s?), and all of them seemed excited about this wild adventure… well, everyone except for CBS News co-host, the aforementioned Gayle King.
Blue Origin takes passengers to the Kármán line, approximately 62-mile (100 km) above the surface of the Earth, which is a relatively arbitrary line that is regarded as the “boundary of space.” However, Blue Origin’s New Shepard are not ships that orbit Earth like the traditional NASA rocket launches we see. And just for reference, the international Space Station orbits at around 250 miles from the Earth’s surface.
Before they left, Lauren, the fiancée of billionaire Amazon and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos, said much of the trip was aimed at making space-wear (I guess that’s what I’m calling it?), more suitable to women and their fashion preferences… seems really unnecessary to me, but whatever.
They have the money, so knock yourself out, I guess…
✨ Weightless and limitless. pic.twitter.com/GQgHd0aw7i
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) April 14, 2025
But the group of women received a lot of criticism online, and by other celebrities even, for the gluttonous nature of the whole thing and the fact that there genuinely was no point in this other than getting press… they didn’t explore, or actually do anything while in space… they were up there for less than ten minutes. One of richest men in the world let his fiancée and her famous friends ride in a space ship… not exactly a groundbreaking feat here. Again, it’s their money and company, do whatever you want, but something about it does feel kind of dystopian. I’ve seen tons of people comparing it to The Hunger Games:
Call me pessimistic but I’m sick of the billion dollar space bullshit when people are starving and homeless on the ground. It’s giving Hunger Games Capital https://t.co/k01qHGwrdU
— Jake O’Kane (@jakeo_kane) April 14, 2025
No one was more insufferable about the whole thing than Katy Perry, though, and honestly, I like some of her big hits, but generally she can come across as pretty annoying during interviews, and making this whole space thing something it wasn’t and acting like you’re a real astronaut it just getting old… in this interview, she seems to genuinely genuinely believe she’s an astronaut now:
Katy Perry full interview after being in space. #KATYPERRYINSPACE 🚀 pic.twitter.com/Zs6BowzL3T
— p (@kidrauhlsperry) April 14, 2025
She has been dating actor Orlando Bloom since 2016, and they share a four-year old daughter Daisy, though it sounds like he wasn’t a huge fan of the whole deal, either, and reportedly told her it was “embarrassing” and “cringeworthy” while they were in “the middle of a fight.” The Daily Mail says a source also told them that he “told her the whole thing looked ridiculous.’
If that’s all true, I completely agree, though I can imagine she didn’t appreciate that too much, and the source explained:
“It hurt her feelings. Of course she was hurt. Imagine going to space — mother******* space — and your partner isn’t impressed.”
This apparently comes at a bad time as Perry is set to attend the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding in Italy later this month, and she is finding it “difficult to accept”‘ bringing him now:
“He complains about her going to space, and then wants to go to the wedding of the people who made it possible for her to do this in the first place. They’re already spiraling and now the wedding is another thing that they have to fight about.”
Oh no, how will he ever survive knowing he didn’t make it to that wedding? It sounds like things aren’t going well, and while Perry is unable to make the wedding due to being on an international tour, Bloom attending without her:
“Feels like … a ‘f*** you’ to her from him. They’re really her friends more than his, and yet he’s the one going to the wedding. And he’s insistent that he goes, which annoys her because he’s not particular close to either of them.”
Perry and Bloom were engaged but put their wedding on hold during the 2020 pandemic. But it sounds like the relationship is on the rocks, and that wedding is probably not going to happen… but I have to laugh at the fact that Bloom is clearly reading the room, so to speak, and Perry still can’t get why no one is interested in why she “went to space.”
