Fans weren’t the only ones who found Katy Perry’s trip to space a little bizarre — Orlando Bloom apparently thought the whole thing was downright embarrassing.
The couple has reportedly been going through a rough patch in their relationship, with some sources even suggesting things are beyond repair. At first, fingers pointed at career struggles on Katy Perry’s side, with her last album notably underperforming. But since then, she seems to have bounced back: she’s currently on a sold-out tour and has put everything else on the back burner. According to Page Six, her grueling tour schedule is the reason she won’t be attending Jeff Bezos’s upcoming wedding to Lauren Sanchez in Venice. Bloom, however, will reportedly still be attending — and that, according to insiders, has sparked even more tension between the (former?) lovebirds.
To fully understand the friction, we might need to rewind a little. There’s a very specific reason Katy Perry doesn’t think Orlando Bloom should even be at the wedding — and it all stems from that infamous 11-minute space trip. Yes, that one. The one where Gayle King memorably clapped back at critics by asking if they had ever been to space. It was a more refined, journalistic version of Chris Brown’s “how you gonna hate from outside the club?”
But for Perry, some of the harshest criticism came from much closer to home. According to sources familiar with the couple’s arguments, Bloom found the entire exercise “embarrassing” and “cringeworthy.” He reportedly told Perry that the whole thing looked “ridiculous” — and that genuinely hurt her feelings. She saw the jab as a sign of a partner who wasn’t supportive. To add insult to injury, she doesn’t understand why he’s going to the Bezos wedding at all, given that she’s supposedly the one closer to the couple. Reportedly, Katy Perry sees Bloom’s attendance at the wedding as a direct insult to her. He’s only going because he knows it will annoy her.
To be fair to Bloom, his reaction wasn’t far off from how the internet responded. The general consensus online was that the whole ordeal was just… kind of a lot. On X, one user posted a photo of Katy Perry kissing the ground post-landing, captioning it like she had just returned from a solo mission to Mars. Even Camila Cabello jumped in to poke fun. Another user screenshotted their lock screen, which showed the Pop Base update about Perry’s “spaceflight” — timestamped to reveal how brief it really was.
i’m crying katy perry just went into space for 10 minutes and came back LMAO pic.twitter.com/CztXo9f6i2
— RoriRigz♡ (@roricyrus) April 14, 2025
Camila Cabello references Katy Perry unveiling her tour setlist in Space:
— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 22, 2025
“didn’t have the budget to fly to space to promote my tour dates so I made this TikTok instead” pic.twitter.com/OZoAVPQEPQ
katy perry went to space for like 4 minutes wtf is she kissing the ground for
— kirapic.twitter.com/dU5Iy9gPmB
(@kirawontmiss) April 14, 2025
Perry — and yes, even Gayle King — have every right to be proud of their trip. Most of us will never make it to space, even for a minute. You got us there, King. But what really made the whole thing ripe for mockery was the full-blown media blitz: the livestreams, the post-landing pressers, the self-anointing as astronauts. The real issue was never the trip — it was the complete and total lack of self-awareness surrounding it.
Still, maybe Bloom’s biggest misstep wasn’t what he said, but how he said it.
