Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom finally break silence on their split confirming nine year relationship is over
KATY Perry and Orlando Bloom have broken their silence on reports they have split after nine years as they share a heartbreaking statement.
The Lifetimes popstar, 40, was revealed to have separated from her actor hubby earlier this month.
Now, the couple have seemingly confirmed their split for the first time as they revealed they have moved their relationship to "focus on co-parenting."
Representatives for the couple told E! News: 'Due to the abundance of recent interest and conversation surrounding Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry's relationship, representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on coparenting.
"They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is—and always will be—raising their daughter with love, stability and mutual respect."
Katy welcomed the couple's only child, Daisy Dove Bloom, in 2020, shorty after the first Covid lockdown.
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This year will also see the release of the film adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Kander and Ebb musical based on the 1976 Manuel Puig novel about two Argentinian cell-mates, a gay man and a socialist revolutionary, who bond through the former's cinematic reveries. Starring Jennifer Lopez, it's directed by Bill Condon, who wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film of Chicago (2002) and is, in Kander's view, 'a wonderful film-maker'. Born in March 1927, the son of a Kansas City poultry trader, Kander was raised in the shadow of the Depression. 'I remember it very well,' he says, 'and I felt lucky that, even though we were not wealthy people, I got a feeling of security in my family.' Perhaps above all, it was music that got them through the worst of times. 'Nobody was a professional musician, but there was music in the house a lot. Very often after dinner, we would go into the living room and just play music. 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I remember sitting in the back of the class. Our teacher asked me a question, which, of course, I could not answer, and she asked me what I was doing, and I told her I was writing a Christmas carol. And she made me stay after school, and she played it.' Because his family was Jewish, the teacher called his parents to check his writing a carol was kosher. They supported him all the way. There was no epiphany about becoming a composer, he says, it was just somehow always in him. 'Music is going on in me all the time. As time went on, I just assumed that that's what I would do. There was no awakening, and my parents were very encouraging without setting goals.' There's a mildness about Kander that perhaps explains why his profile remains relatively low-key despite his enormous success. But it's a gentleness to which he may owe his career. He retells the incredible domino effect which began in Philadelphia in 1957 where West Side Story had just begun its pre-Broadway try-out run. 'There was a party afterwards in a big hotel. And there was a six-deep queue at the bar trying to get drinks. I'm not a very aggressive fellow, and I kept raising my arm. The guy in front of me saw my distress and said: 'What do you want?' He turned out to be the pianist with West Side Story in the orchestra, and we struck up a conversation and stayed in touch. Some time after the show transferred to New York, the pianist asked Kander if he would cover for him while he was on holiday. 'And I said yes. And so there I was playing in the pit on West Side Story for three weeks, and during that period, they were rehearsing the company, and putting in a lot of replacements. Again, the stage manager asked me to be there to play for those rehearsals and those auditions. And then they needed a pianist to play all the auditions for this big new show called Gypsy. I said yes. And that led to me having my first Broadway show, called A Family Affair. It all goes back to that one night.' It might sound like a charmed life, yet to grow up gay before the 1960s, as Kander did, was to experience a less accepting world. 'In the first half of my life all that had to be sublimated and couldn't be discussed,' he says. 'Now it's a natural part of the world that I live in. And I think how lucky I actually am that I lived my life that way. I think that in spite of my terrific family, I grew up understanding what secret suffering feels like. 'I never thought I would reach this point, but I am grateful for that suffering, because I think it helped me to understand other people, perhaps in a way that I would not have otherwise. I think the importance of compassion becomes clear when you experience suffering on your own. Looking back on the things that have interested me in terms of writing, I think they are influenced by the fact that, years ago, I learned what those feelings are like.' When I ask if he has any regrets, he pauses. 'I know that regrets about the past are useless. But I wish I had been braver when I was younger.' To be himself? 'Yes… but there's nothing I can do about that.' Although society has progressed in many ways since, in other respects he shudders at how removed things are from the post-war spirit he remembers. 'Back then, though life was very complicated, as it always is, and there were lots of problems, there was optimism about the future. I'm horrified by what's happening in our country. I don't know how long it will take to get our country back'. He expresses real upset at the fact that Trump and his team employed New York, New York at a pre-election rally in Madison Square Garden last year. 'I felt terrible about that. I don't think there's any way to stop that. I know other people whose music was used as well, and they went to greater lengths than I tried to, to stop the use of it, but I don't think you really can.' Robert De Niro was the accidental catalyst for a song now inseparable from New York's sense of itself, and a seemingly eternal hymn to the can-do spirit. As the story goes, the original version that Kander and Ebb had written initially met with the approval of Martin Scorsese and Liza Minnelli, but De Niro dissented and, after a hushed confab with him, Scorsese requested the pair have another go at it. Kander believes that it was their irritation at being told to go back to the drawing-board that spurred them to new heights. 'We went back to [Fred's] place and then sat down and wrote it in 45 minutes. I think, without our quite realising it, there was an energy of annoyance in it. And of course, it's a much better song.' Laughing, he admits that the original version 'was terrible. If I still had a copy, I would burn it.' What's his view on the current state of Broadway, where shows can cost millions to stage, and the earth to watch? 'It's much harder to get things on today, because they're so ungodly expensive,' says Kander. 'When we did Flora or Cabaret, those shows which were considered expensive were nothing compared to what it costs to put on a Broadway musical today. But I think the theatre is probably the last place to give up the fight. The theatre has always, in some way, represented the resistance.' Is its Golden Age over? His voice sounds a note of amusement. 'I think that the 'Golden Age' is every age just before the one that we're living in.' The London production of Cabaret celebrates its 1,500th performance on July 7 and is currently booking until March: The Broadway run celebrates 500 performances the following day
