Katy Perry and her ‘darling’ Orlando Bloom meet the Pope as he says he wants THAT Paddleboard picture to ‘just go away’
Things seem to be going well again for Katy and Orlando ... but he wants one aspect of their past to disappear
KATY Perry appears to be on very good terms once again with Orlando Bloom after they spent time together in Italy today.
They are currently at the Unite To Cure charity conference in the Vatican City where they met Pope Francis.
Katy and Orlando looked happy to be in each other’s company and were both dressed smartly in black.
Speaking in her Instagram story, Katy said: “Happy Saturday everyone, I’m here in Rome at the Vatican, to speak on meditation.
“I’m with my momma, my darling [Orlando], and my manager, Steve!
“It’s a great day! I am so excited!”
While Katy seemed happy to speak very favourably about Orlando today, he was a little more reluctant to open up about the exact status of their relationship recently.
Speculation mounted things were heating up between them when she recently commented on some of his social media posts.
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On their relationship, Orlando told The Times that “it’s a very odd one”, adding: “She’s a remarkable human being. Completely surprising, because I am not her demographic. I am a little older than her, so I wasn’t someone overly familiar with her artistic endeavours when we met.
“I wouldn’t have imagined anything happening. And, you know, when you get hit sideways you get hit sideways.
“You don’t pick who you fall in love with. And then you come around and there’s all sorts of things that happen in between, right?”
He went on: “We have had,” before correcting his tense: “He had a really remarkable connection. And it’s difficult. She’s on tour, I’m doing a play, everything evolves.
“I have a lot of respect for her and a lot of deep feeling. So we will see.”
However, there is one part of the couple’s past he would like to forget – the infamous time he was seen naked on the back of a paddleboard while she sat on the front in a bikini whilst on holiday in 2016.
The actor thought he was out of sight of onlookers but he was pictured in the nude at the time.
While Orlando is not ashamed of the snap, he wishes it would vanish as people often want to talk about it.
He said: “I will say that I had no idea it was going to happen. I really would like the whole thing to go away.
“I am not embarrassed about it, but it is just hilarious to me that people still want to talk about it.
“It speaks to where we are in our culture. I mean, I could talk to you about Unicef for an hour, really bend your ear.
“I mean, you know, I get it… but you do just think, ‘Oh what a shame!’”
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