Orlando Bloom On His Relationship With Katy Perry: ‘We’re Just Gonna Build a Sandcastle’

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | April 19, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | April 19, 2024 |

Orlando Bloom made a recent appearance on the What Now? With Trevor Noah podcast where he opened up about his relationship with Katy Perry. Noah speculated that they seek “peace” and “normalcy” in their lives and relationship despite their fame.

“I think one of the things that I fell in love with Katy was … she hates when I say this, so I have to word it carefully, but her music was everywhere, right? When I came up, it was just on every radio station, but I wasn’t conscious of … [it] wasn’t what I was listening to, but I fell in love with Katheryn, this girl from Santa Barbara,” he said, adding, “And by the way, parents, pastors, living on food stamps. We’re not talking glamorous, Montecito … It’s the side [of Santa Barbara] that no one knows.”

He said that’s why their relationship is so successful, because of their mutual “understanding [of] where we came from, what we worked to do, what we had to do to get to where we got to,” and also because Perry “definitely demands that I evolve.”

“I feel I do the same for her. And that makes for fireworks, pardon the pun, but it also makes for a lot of fun and a lot of growth.”

Despite the challenges of being a famous couple in the public eye, he said of their relationship,

“I wouldn’t change it for anything, even when sometimes it feels like, ‘How do we do this?’ Because we’ve got these two giant careers and lives, and hers is even, you know…it’s like a universe sometimes. But I think I just keep coming back to her and trying to hold her hand and walk her back to the sand pit and be like…we’re just gonna build a sandcastle.”

I have no idea what that means, but good for them. Perry reportedly makes a few appearances in Bloom’s new docuseries Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, now streaming on Peacock.