EXCLUSIVE Orlando Bloom was tired of 'hiding' relationship issues with Katy Perry... as insiders reveal MONTHS of struggles before split
Orlando Bloom is happy to be feeling like his 'normal self' again after enduring months of make or break moments with Katy Perry as the pair started to 'disconnect' and lead two separate lives.
The couple, who were last pictured together at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in March, weathered weeks of split rumors before their beak up was confirmed by PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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The Independent
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- The Independent
Farewell, Anna Wintour – the Queen of editors with a nuclear-force superpower
Farewell, Anna Wintour: sphinx-faced, super-enduring doyenne of global fashion. The news that the editor-in-chief of US Vogue has stepped down after 37 years marks the end of an era, but I don't mean her reign over couture and catwalk. What her bow marks is the golden age of magazines, when editors were celebrated as celebs in their own right and whose names were synonymous with their product. Mark Boxer at Tatler, Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair, Nick Logan at The Face, Bill Buford heading Granta, Alan Coren at Punch and Tina Brown presiding over Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and the Daily Beast. But 'Nuclear Wintour' outsaw all of them, while the only famed editor still at his desk and outdoing Wintour by two years and still counting is my first boss, Ian Hislop, Private Eye 's Lord Gnome. Magazines shaped my life after my publican parents turned their saloon bar into a comfy sitting room with sofas, log fires and piles of glossies. As my mother put it, 'There's Country Life for the life you want, Hello! to gawp at other people's lives and Private Eye for the truth behind the lives.' Each copy was grey from being thumbed by riveted customers. By 1991, when the cousin of one of our regulars sent me off for an interview with Hislop at the Eye 's Soho offices, I was quivering with nerves at the prospect of meeting a demi-god. But even then, I didn't quite grasp how infinitesimally lucky I was to enter magazine journalism at a time of editorial giants, wide readerships, big ad revenue and significant sway. It was an age when editors decided who was a star in the making – or fading. Front covers rather than TikTok anointed and cemented talent, while media bigwigs, rock stars and actors hung out together at the then newly-founded Groucho Club, feeding on each other's influence. The idea of a 'chief content creator' wasn't even a twinkle in a Californian tech bro's eye – he was still at kindergarten. All the lesser hacks relied on editors and their lavish expense accounts to lubricate the fun. Michael VerMeulen, the American editor of British GQ – where I landed my second job – negotiated an expense account of £40,000 on top of his salary and used to sweep his entire staff out for Groucho jollies. Vermeulen with his flamboyant lingo of 'big swinging dicks' (any man he admired) and 'doesn't blow the wind up my skirt' (a lacklustre features pitch) made such great copy that the Guardian sent a journalist to report on what it was like to work in his orbit. I have long cherished the memory of him telling me that when a girlfriend congratulated him on his sexual performance, he instantly replied, 'Don't tell me, tell your friends!' His death, one August bank holiday weekend after an excess of cocaine, was front-page news, and all of Mag Land mourned. Even back then, Anna Wintour rose above it all like a phoenix born of ice, who would never be glimpsed in civilian settings. A good friend went off to work at US Vogue and reported back that the maestra had her own work lavatory, forbidden to all others, so worker bees couldn't bear witness to her doing something as human as going to the loo. (This was apparently even the case at her Met Gala balls, where even Hollywood superstars couldn't share her personal facilities.) During my brief stint at Conde Nast, before I was fired for sleeping with the deputy editor – reader, I married him – rumours of impending visits from Wintour took on the aspect of Elizabeth I descending on an earl's country estate to test his coffers and loyalty. Even that friend who went to the Vogue took on some of her boss's grandiosity. When I bumped into her at an intimate London book launch, I was startled to find she affected not to know me, a phase that happily passed. There was real power in the corridors of glossies back then, and this could distort personalities even more than the charlie so many meeja folk snorted. An actress or model who couldn't land a Vogue cover was denied the super-stamp of being in fashion, and so it was for men who couldn't make a splash on GQ or Esquire 's hoardings. Pamela Anderson may have equalled Princess Diana for sheer fame in the 1990s, but Wintour would not yield her the ultimate accolade of a cover: the sex tape that leaked of Anderson and drummer Tommy Lee deemed her trashy beyond redemption. But in 2023, Anderson had a radical image overhaul, ditching the bombshell slap and going makeup-free to Paris Fashion Week, and every event since. It was intellectual, interesting – and it's got her on the list for the last two Met Galas. This year, Anderson went a step further, with a severe bob and sculpted dress that gave her a faint whiff of catwalk Rosa Klebb. She'd have probably worn a straitjacket if it gained her admission to fashion's front row. Because that, in the end, was Anna Wintour's nuclear-force superpower: the quiet devastation of a 'No'. She was not just an editor, she was the ultimate bouncer with Prada gloves.
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
‘Some dude Katy Perry met': The baffling rise of Orlando Bloom
Among the many eye-popping sights this week in Venice, where billionaire Jeff Bezos tied the knot with Lauren Sanchez amid a storm of local protest (and an actual thunderstorm which sent A-list guests running for cover), perhaps one of the most baffling is the presence of erstwhile actor Orlando Bloom, who has reportedly called off his romance with singer Katy Perry. Bloom, 48, shot to fame in the early 2000s in two massive franchises, The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean, but his career has since flatlined. He has become more famous in recent years for his relationship with Perry – and for weird viral moments like paddleboarding naked – than for his actual performances. Now it seems he has a new headline-grabbing partnership: a bromance with Amazon founder Bezos. On Thursday, Bloom arrived solo in Venice for the first day of Bezos's lavish £36 million, three-day wedding celebrations. He first enjoyed an al-fresco lunch at the swanky Gritti Palace hotel with music executive Scooter Braun and NFL star Tom Brady. Perry had previously taken sides in Braun's row with Taylor Swift. In 2019, after Braun bought the rights to Swift's masters, Perry wrote on social media: 'I stand with Taylor. Stay strong my friend.' Bloom also shared air kisses with fellow wedding guests Kim and Khloe Kardashian. He has a history with Kim too: in 2024 he was spotted seemingly checking out her bottom at a charity dinner in New York. Perry responded to the viral photo of Bloom apparently gawking on a radio show a few days later, jokingly saying 'I approve'. But she might not find his current antics quite so amusing. A source told TMZ that Bloom was planning to be 'the life of the party' as a single man at the Bezos-Sanchez bash, and we're already seeing signs of that. When the heavens opened at a party at the Madonna dell Orto cloisters and guests – including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Oprah Winfrey and Leonardo DiCaprio – were forced to flee, Bloom was spotted with a mystery brunette in a striking pale-green mini dress, wrapping his arm around her as they cosied up in a water taxi. (Tabloid reports have identified her as Perry's stylist and friend Jamie Mizrahi.) Perhaps he's taking inspiration from DiCaprio, who attended the wedding with yet another young model (Vittoria Ceretti, 27), and is forming his own post-split Venetian 'pussy posse' (as DiCaprio and his friends became known in their 1990s pomp). The wedding trip is presumably a professional obligation for Bloom. His new release is Amazon Prime Video's mediocre action comedy Deep Cover, about three improv wannabes recruited by police to infiltrate the criminal underworld. Bloom plays an oddball, deeply irritating method performer who thinks he deserves meaty roles, but whose only steady work is Pizza Knight commercials. 'You're from the Cotswolds, you're not Al Pacino,' his agent grumbles. As a spot of meta-commentary on Bloom and his roller-coaster run, it's pretty apt. The actor was born in Canterbury and named after a 16 th -century English composer, Orlando Gibbons. He got his break aged 20 playing a rent boy in 1997 movie Wilde, starring Stephen Fry as the playwright. He then took a swerve into mega-budget fantasy with the Lord of the Rings films in 2001, starring as the elf Legolas. That catapulted him to Hollywood stardom and instant heartthrob status – although in very specific, slightly kinky terms. Essentially, fans went giddy at the sight of Bloom as an androgynous folkloric being with a lust-worthy bow and arrow and long, flowing flaxen hair – a cross between a mystical fairy-tale prince and a shampoo ad. He was the ultimate unattainable pretty boy, albeit one with pointy ears. (A friend who worked in teen magazines at this time recalls being inundated with letters specifying that they publish more posters of Legolas – not of Orlando Bloom himself.) However, that's not exactly a sustainable image for a long career. Nor did Pirates of the Caribbean, his swashbuckling Disney stint beginning in 2003, demonstrate much range. In fact, Bloom, playing the whiny blacksmith Will Turner, was easily the weakest of the cast, acted off the screen by Johnny Depp 's preening pirate and Keira Knightley's feisty heroine. Bloom's 2006 appearance in TV comedy Extras really summed it up. This 'Bloom' was desperately insecure, working overtime to seduce extra Maggie and making snide, but clearly jealous, comments about Depp such as 'Ooh, look at me, I make art-house movies'. Significantly Maggie, who was once a superfan, later took down her Bloom poster. Bloom wasn't faring much better in real life, with critics unconvinced by his performances in films such as 2005's Kingdom of Heaven (playing another blacksmith, who joins the Crusade), and box office flops like Elizabethtown (2005), Sympathy for Delicious (2010), The Good Doctor (2011), Unlocked (2017) and The Outpost (2019), as he made abortive attempts to diversify into thrillers, dramas and war movies. Predictably, he retreated to his fantasy safe place by reprising his Lord of the Rings role in the Hobbit films in 2013-14, and is eager to appear in 2027's next entry in the franchise. Bloom said earlier this month that he'd like to see Legolas 'the same age as he was' in the original trilogy, 'lithe and breezy and warrior-like, so AI would have to come into play'. It's a fairly depressing acceptance that he's never really progressed beyond that early-years hit. His popularity with Britons in particular took a nosedive in 2021 when he revealed his very Hollywood life in an interview with The Sunday Times. Unfortunate LA-isms included: 'I chant for 20 minutes every day, religiously. I've had a Buddhist practice since I was 16, so that's infiltrated my whole being. I'll read a bit of Buddhism and then I'll type it up and add it to my [Instagram] Stories.' He also talked about his diet, including mixing green powders with brain octane oil, waxed lyrical about the 'methodical nature of creating' when building Lego cars, and slipped in a plug for his exclusive deal with Amazon, which he'd signed in 2019, and which was probably the origin of his current closeness with Bezos. In 2014 he drew the wrath of the Beliebers (and pained everyone else) by engaging in excruciating fisticuffs with pop star Justin Bieber. Bloom walked up to Bieber and punched him outside restaurant Cipriani in Ibiza, and the scuffling pair then had to be separated by their respective entourages. One source claimed that Bloom was enraged by a lewd comment Bieber made about Bloom's ex-wife, Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr, who had reportedly been on a date with Bieber in 2012. It probably doesn't help his appeal that he's also indulged in some strange vanity projects, like 2024 TV documentary series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge. 'I felt about as close to death as I could possibly get,' he boasts in the cringe-inducing trailer, in which he shows off muscles and a man-bun and adopts a mockney tough guy accent, trying to rebrand himself as a death-defying extreme-sports bro – Canterbury's answer to Tom Cruise. Alas, Bloom jumping out of a plane only cemented the image of a career in freefall. Bloom also made an unfortunate appearance in RJ Cutler's Billie Eilish documentary in 2021. Eilish meets him and Perry at Coachella and completely fails to recognise him. Her brother Finneas later tells her 'he played Will Turner in f---ing Pirates of the Caribbean ', and Eilish, after Googling pictures of Bloom, says 'I thought that was just some dude Katy Perry met'. Then comes a second even more excruciating meeting, during which Bloom (who is a Buddhist) gives Eilish a lingering hug and says: 'This is the universe hugging you. I'm giving you so much love and light right now.' He probably wasn't aiming to change his public reputation from bland to downright bizarre. That brings us to the on-off romance with Perry. The pair began dating in 2016 after a meet-cute following the Golden Globe Awards: they were both grabbing burgers at In-N-Out. Bloom went viral during a couple's trip to Sardinia, when they were photographed on a paddleboard – Perry wore a bikini, he was stark naked. Needless to say that has haunted Bloom ever since. 'Are we going to talk about my penis?' he sighed in a 2017 Elle interview. They split in 2017, with Perry later explaining on the Call Her Daddy podcast that they weren't really 'in it from day one'. She added: 'He was in a way, because he had just done a huge time of celibacy, and he had set intentions' – a quote that raises far more questions than it answers. But the pair got back together the following year, and announced their engagement in 2019. Perry gave birth to their daughter Daisy Dove in 2020. However, the couple apparently hit a rough patch in the past few months. Bloom's pal Bezos may actually have contributed to their split: the actor was reportedly mortified by her soundly mocked Blue Origin space flight in April alongside Bezos's fiancée Sanchez. An inside source suggested that Bloom warned her about a possible backlash and later told her that the whole thing looked ridiculous. There were also apparent tensions following Perry's album 143 tanking; reportedly, he had voiced his concerns about that as well. Bloom was allegedly annoyed that Perry then used him to drum up publicity, sharing a risqué story on Call Her Daddy in 2024 – Perry said that if the kitchen was clean, Bloom had 'better be ready to get [his] d--- sucked' – and posting videos on her Instagram of a topless Bloom jogging. Now Perry is on tour in Australia, so apparently too busy to attend Bezos's wedding (though ticket sales haven't exactly been in high demand). That leaves Bloom in the spotlight as he contemplates his next chapter, which might feature another comeback: he has a Werner Herzog film on the horizon, the gloriously titled Bucking Fasterds. For now, it looks like the sexy elf is back on the market – and raising a glass to Mr Amazon.
The Sun
an hour ago
- The Sun
Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr EXACT fight time – when are the ring-walks for blockbuster bout?
JAKE PAUL is hoping to take another huge boxing scalp when he takes on Mexican mogul Julio Cesar Chavez Jr TONIGHT! The Problem Child hasn't competitively stepped foot in the ring since his controversial points win against legendary heavy-hitter Mike Tyson. 1 Fans feared for 58-year-old Tyson before the fight, and made their voices heard when the decision was followed by unanimous boos around the AT&T Stadium. However, the victory meant that Paul extended his professional boxing career record to 11-1 - only losing a bitter grudge match to Tommy Fury in 2023. And the social media sensation will be determined to build on that when he goes toe-to-toe with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr at the top of a huge Honda Center bill. But for the fans that are only interested in the main event, SunSport can reveal the EXACT time when Paul and Chavez Jr will step into the ring. What time does Jake Paul vs Chavez Jr start and how can I watch it? Ring-walks for the main event is expected to get underway at around 4am BST / 11pm ET meaning that the first bell should go approximately 15 minutes later at 4:15am BST / 11:15pm ET. However, timings could change depending on the length of the undercard bouts. Coverage of the main card will start from 1am BST / 8pm ET. Honda Center in Anaheim, United States is the chosen venue for this huge event and it can host approximately 18,336. The fight will be exclusively shown on DAZN PPV. The pay-per-view costs £24.99 / $59.99 and can be watched on DAZN TV or live streamed on the website / app. Alternatively, SunSport will live blog the full card, including the huge main event. Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr JAKE PAUL'S controversial boxing career rolls on this weekend with the Problem Child facing boxing royalty in Anaheim, California. Paul will face Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, a highly-decorated former world middleweight champion. The Mexican, 39, has fought just once in the last four years but has the best boxing resume of any fighter to step into a ring with Paul - bar Mike Tyson, who was aged 58 at the time they fought. INFO Everything you need to know about Paul vs Chavez Jr LATEST NEWS & FEATURES Jake Paul buys incredible £29MILLION ranch with 5,700 acres Jake Paul in talks over TWO shock world title fights Chavez Jr is son of boxing great who was arrested on gun charges and robbed by party girls Jake Paul heavyweight days over after getting 'too fat' Who is on the Jake Paul vs Chavez Jr undercard? Jake Paul vs Julio César Chávez Jr. - Cruiserweight Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez vs Yuniel Dorticos - Cruiserweight, for the WBA and WBO titles Holly Holm vs Yolanda Vega - Lightweight Floyd Schofield vs Tevin Farmer - Lightweight Avious Griffin vs Julian Rodriguez - Welterweight Raul 'Cugar' Curiel vs Victor Ezequiel Rodriguez - Welterweight Naomy Valle vs Ashley Felix - Light flyweight Jake Paul's confidence Jake Paul is confident that he will beat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and believes he could 'whoop' Chavez Jr's legendary father too... at the same time! The Problem Child said: "Put both the Chavezs in there, I'll whoop Sr and Jr in the same night. "Going from Disney Channel to YouTube to world champion in six to seven years? "That's the most relatable and best sports story that any kid can get behind."
