Celebrity gossip blogger Deuxmoi thinks Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry wanted to be seen

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Anonymous celebrity gossip insider Deuxmoi gets so many submissions daily from around the world that when the New Yorker received photos of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American pop star Katy Perry having dinner at swanky Montreal resto Le Violon on Monday night, she didn't think much of it.
But when TMZ's report the following morning took off and created a worldwide firestorm that resulted countless memes and an Entertainment Tonight date map pinpointing every stop on their supposed non-date/date, Deuxmoi told The Gazette she may have miscalculated the significance of the soirée.
'I found out about it before TMZ broke the story, and I didn't think anyone else would have this information because it was just coming from a restaurant in Montreal,' she said via phone interview.
'I did not expect TMZ to break it, so I received a text on Monday night about the sighting and I sat on it until the next day.'
Deuxmoi is one of the Internet's biggest hot spots for celebrity gossip and candid photos. The Instagram page alone has more than two million followers, and the brand has spun out into merch, an app, a podcast and a novel.
But what the self-professed 'curator' didn't expect, and this is where her experience in dealing with mountains of blurry celeb rendezvous photo submissions came in handy, was that there was more than one amateur paparazzi in Danny Smiles's resto.
'Little did I know that someone else at the restaurant sent a picture to TMZ, because my source was a different source than TMZ's source,' she said.
That set off alarm bells.
'There were a lot of people at this restaurant. It wasn't empty, so I think they wanted to be seen,' she said. 'If you see where they were sitting, you could see they were sitting very close to the bar, so people were seated up and down the whole bar and their table was right next to that. It looked like that to me. So it's not like they were tucked away in a corner or in a booth. They were out in the open.'
Celebrities of Perry's stature are usually pretty careful about being seen. Trudeau was also front and centre at her Bell Centre show on Wednesday night, adding even more fuel to the social media fire.
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The photo Deuxmoi posted on their Instagram account on Tuesday received nearly 12,000 likes. A video from the concert is at nearly 7,000 likes. That's par for the course on her account, but not as big as, say, Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas spotted in Vermont.
For Canadians, a former prime minister spending time with an American pop star is big news. For Americans like Deuxmoi, Perry is the main draw here. Earlier this July, she announced she was splitting with longtime partner, actor Orlando Bloom. They have one child together.
Perry also received a lot of media attention earlier this year, much of it negative, for joining Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin suborbital space flight.
Because Trudeau news rarely makes a ripple down south, Deuxmoi said it's harder to get Intel on this week's date compared to when it's two twentysomethings involved.
'She's a pop star, but she's not, you know, like a Sabrina Carpenter or Chappell Roan. She's seasoned so people aren't talking about her as much. So the information is trickling in,' she said.
In general, Deuxmoi added that although she has fans around the world willing to risk getting caught snapping a celeb in public for a moment of internet infamy, she rarely gets any submissions from Montreal.
'I gotta say, not really anything. I'm not shocked.' After searching for the word Montreal in her DMs, she landed on a few names.
'Joe Jonas once. Ryan Reynolds was there in May,' she said. 'And that's it. And I get sightings seven days a week.'