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(NewsNation) — Rumors are flying that there’s trouble in paradise between Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom.
PEOPLE reported that due to the stress of her album, 143 flopping and her tour, the couple have had “tension”; US Weekly claims the two have “grown apart”; Page Six claims the couple are “on the rocks.”
Perry has been traveling the world for her “The Lifetimes Tour” — which had a rough start — and Bloom has been in Miami, New York and London in between getting his blood “cleansed” of microplastics and toxins.
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom at the tenth Breakthrough Prize ceremony held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Anna Webber/Variety via Getty Images) 
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 05: Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry attend day three of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 05, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) 
Katy Perry performs after an appearance by Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally at the Carrie Blast Furnaces in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) 
FILE – Host Katy Perry is lowered onto the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2017. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) 
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 25: Katy Perry is seen signing autographs for fans after her Capital Breakfast radio interview at Global Radio on July 25, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/GC Images) 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 30: (L-R) Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom attend Variety’s Power of Women on September 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Lifetime) 
FILE – This Aug. 21, 2019 file photo shows Orlando Bloom, right, a cast member in the Amazon Prime Video series “Carnival Row,” with singer Katy Perry, at the premiere of the series in Los Angeles. Perry has given birth to a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom. The pop superstar and her partner, actor Orlando Bloom, got UNICEF to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both Perry and Bloom are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) 
This image released by Peacock shows Orlando Bloom in an episode of the television series “Orlando Bloom: To the Edge.” (Casey Durkin/Peacock via AP)
However, I am assured the two will reunite for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding extravaganza in Venice at the end of the month. The two couples have become good friends over the years and are often seen vacationing together on Bezos’ yacht, Kora.
”Everyone will be there — it’s fine,” a source told me.
But it has been a year from hell for Perry.
Kary Perry’s album ‘143’ was ‘biggest flop yet’: Critics
Perry was stunned when her album, 143, which debuted last year, was declared “full of bombs” and the single “Woman’s World” was castigated by critics as her “biggest flop yet.” The album, which debuted at #6 on charts but quickly disappeared after, went on to sell a measly 100,000 copies (according to the Wikipedia entry).
She was widely mocked and vilified after the Blue Origin girls’ trip to space with Sanchez and Gayle King, and had trouble getting her “Lifetimes” tour off the ground.
Let’s hope she and Bloom have a nice time at the wedding, shall we?