KATY PERRY is on tour across Europe and her No1 groupie – former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – has been a regular at her shows.
I can reveal he has spent his whole summer following her around on tour, and even brought friends to Europe to spend time on a yacht in between her concerts.
The superstar headlined the famous Isle of MTV concert in Malta on Wednesday — Europe’s largest free concert — and he was there cheering her on.
And we will soon be hearing a lot more from Katy, as I’m told she’s almost completed work on her eighth album, which has been inspired by moving on from long-term partner Orlando Bloom and finding love again with the politician.
That might be a surprise after the recent release of her singles Bandaids and Watch It Burn, which were written early last year and on which she gave Orlando both barrels. But now she’s done with writing break-up songs, telling the Unfamous podcast: “I know the next step I’m going to take.
“Watch It Burn, actually I didn’t need to do a whole EP of this feeling. But I needed to touch it and circle it.
“And now I’m moving on and I’m going to be writing something that is going to represent what I’m feeling now.
“I have to process it. This is my therapy.
“This is my art.”
Wednesday’s concert attracted a crowd of 30,000 fans to Il-Fosos Square for the 18th year of Isle of MTV Malta, staged in partnership with Malta Tourism Authority.
Justin was seen bopping along to her biggest hits from the lighting tower, and she called out to him three times from the stage.
Before singing I’m His, He’s Mine, Katy, who was wearing a vintage costume she wore for an MTV VMAs advert in 2009, gushed: “I’m gonna dedicate this one to my boyfriend.
“I love when he comes to my shows, it always makes me so happy.
“I love you, baby.”
My insider said: “Katy is the happiest she has ever been now that she’s with Justin and she wants to reflect that in the music.
“The end of her relationship with Orlando was one of the hardest things she’s been through but she doesn’t want to dwell on it with the music.
“It’s about owning who she is and holding her head high.
“Justin feels like her soulmate and it’s been really inspiring for her.
“Most of the new album was recorded at the beginning of the year.
“The title Scorpio Bitch was discussed for the album but that’s likely to change as she doesn’t want to come off as too spiky.
“The album is almost done, she’s really proud of what she’s been working on.”
On stage, she was like an excitable, giddy teenager as she called out to him.
So I imagine it will be her most loved-up record ever.
IF you missed out on the chance to see Katy Perry on tour over the past year, you’ll soon be able to catch up on two of her live shows.
Her huge Isle of MTV Malta show will air on MTV on September 18 – showcasing her Out Of Office summer show, which she also performed at Blenheim Palace and Cardiff Castle earlier this month.
But that’s not all. Katy’s concert film The Lifetimes Tour: Live From Paris – recorded during her previous tour last year – is coming to 150 UK cinemas on September 2.
The two-hour film features footage of her singing her biggest hits as part of one of her most ambitious tours ever, plus there’s exclusive backstage footage included.
The tour reached more than one million fans during 91 shows in 23 countries, and raised almost £82,000 for the Music Venue Trust in the UK.
TOM TO KNOCK ‘EM DREAD
TOM HOLLAND is finally moving forward with his Fred Astaire biopic – but said he’s filled with “dread”.
Five years after revealing he’d be playing the actor and dancer, the Spider-Man star has started rehearsals and is determined to do all the dancing himself.
Speaking on US telly, Tom, who is currently on the promo trail for both The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, said: “What I love about my job is the challenges. We have Fred Astaire next. As soon as I finish these tours, I’m diving back into the dance studio.
“I did my first few rehearsals recently and it both filled me with excitement and absolute dread because I’ve got so much work to do to try to do Fred proud.”
He added he has “a desire to use no doubles” and shoot the dances in one shot as Fred would have done.
K-POP girl group AESPA are hitting up Pinkpantheress in the hope of a collaboration.
WINTER from the group said: “I’d love to work with PinkPantheress. I love the atmosphere she creates in her music. Bringing her style together with aespa’s could lead to something really fresh.”
JOANNE HAS VAPE ESCAPE
JOANNE McNALLY’s stint on Celebrity Traitors almost went up in smoke after she started vaping in the castle.
The comedian admitted puffing on an e-cig during filming, which meant producers had to intervene, as it can’t be shown on air.
She admitted: “I remember we were chatting, having a real deep and meaningful.
“And they cut filming. They’re like, ‘Joanne, you can’t vape in the castle’.
“I was really into this conversation, pulling on this vape. Because you feel relaxed in the castle.”
Asked if she forgot the cameras were there, she told the Bottom’s Up podcast: “Totally. And I always thought that was horses**t when I’d watch Big Brother before.
“I was like, ‘As if you could forget the cameras were there’. But you do, actually.”
I hope it doesn’t lead to her being smoked out when it airs in the autumn.
BURLESQUE The Musical’s UK tour will not open at Woking Theatre tomorrow, with the week-long run being cancelled just 48 hours before it was due to start.
The show starring Corrie’s Faye Brooks, has been plagued with a series of issues and is now scheduled to launch on August 6 at the Sunderland Empire. The London run has been postponed to 2027.
HEEL AND BACK FOR JACOB
JACOB ELORDI has revealed he broke both heels earlier this year.
The 6ft 5in actor said he “jumped off something” and suffered the painful injury – forcing him to withdraw as a juror at Cannes Film Festival.
Speaking on US TV the Wuthering Heights star said: “I broke both my heels earlier this year. I jumped off something.”
It happened as Nate Jacobs, his character in Euphoria, was having his toes and fingers cut in graphic scenes on the show.
Jacob, who is dating Kendall Jenner, added: “I was in a cast and a moon boot at the same time Nate was getting his digits cut off.
“Everyone thought it was hilarious, like, ‘Oh, method acting!’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I cut my f***ing toe off.’”
OASIS DOC GETS VENICE PREMIERE
NOEL and Liam Gallagher better dust off their tuxedos as new documentary, OASIS: Don’t Look Back In Anger will get its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
The brothers, plus writer Steven Knight and directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, are all expected to attend the event which starts on September 2.
Cameras followed Noel and Liam on last year’s worldwide sell-out stadium run, which saw them performing to millions of fans across 41 dates.
The documentary features revealing interviews and the first tentative meeting between the once-warring siblings.
Last year at Venice, docudrama The Voice Of Hind Rajab received the longest standing ovation in the festival’s history – with people clapping for 23 minutes and 50 seconds. Surely, Oasis can beat it.
DESTINY’S CHILD are gearing up to release a new album of unheard remixes, says Beyonce’s dad.
Mathew Knowles, who managed the girl group during their original run, said the project, will feature a collaboration with Missy Elliott. He said: “We have remixes that have never been released and we’ll be putting those out soon.”