Justin Trudeau ‘just too vanilla’ for Katy Perry, says Canadian ‘super fan’ who voted Conservative
A self-described Katy Perry “super fan” isn’t particularly pleased former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is making fireworks with his pop idle.
It’s no teenage dream for Braiden Palumbo that the famous pair were recently pictured kissing and cuddling aboard the singer’s yacht off the coast of California. The 21-year-old Albertan, who voted Conservative in the last federal election, was hoping to be the dark horse that won Perry’s heart after she brought him up on stage with her this past July at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena during the opening night of Canadian dates on her Lifetime Tour.
“To be honest with you, I think he kind of stole my thunder,” Palumbo said of Trudeau Monday during a telephone interview from where he works at the Co-op Gas Bar in Redcliff, a town just outside Medicine Hat, Alta.
Palumbo sees Perry as the one that got away. “I actually kinda, sort of was hoping that she would have taken me for dinner, but she didn’t,” he said.
Perry and Trudeau aren’t a good match, according to Palumbo.
“She’s too bubbly and too happy and he’s just too vanilla,” Palumbo said.
He’s hoping the relationship between Perry and Trudeau goes down in flames. “They hopefully do not have a future together,” Palumbo said.
Palumbo voted Conservative in the last federal election, “mostly because I wasn’t a big fan of Justin myself,” he said.
“I’m not really too big into politics, but I was a big fan of the whole marijuana legalization” that the former PM made law.
But that wouldn’t convince him to vote for Trudeau if the Liberal ever ran for office again. “Absolutely not,” Palumbo said. “I don’t think what he did for Canada was very good, and he stole my thunder.”
If Perry ever swung by the Redcliff Gas Co-op, though, Palumbo said he’d clean her windshield for free. “I’d do anything she wanted for free,” he said.
Trudeau and wife Sophie Grégoire split in 2023 after 18 years together, and Perry split from fellow celebrity and long-time fiancé Orlando Bloom in July.
“All the power to you guys; do what you’ve gotta do,” the Alberta gas jockey said of the romantic partnership between the pop star and former politico.
“But, I mean, fresh out of the (split) for both of them. I think that’s kind of too soon,” Palumbo said.
“And he’s way older than she is.”
He’s not sure the relationship will last between Trudeau, 53, and Perry, 40.
“Honestly, I hope it doesn’t; I really hope it doesn’t,” Palumbo said. “But if it does, you know what, good for them.”
He suspects Grégoire, the mother of Trudeau’s three children, isn’t thrilled either about the roar of publicity surrounding her ex husband’s new love interest.
“She’s probably really pissed, and I don’t blame her,” Palumbo said.
Perry’s publicist did not respond immediately Monday to questions about the pop star’s relationship to Trudeau.
The photographs, published by the British paper The Mail on Sunday, show Perry, wearing a black swimsuit, embracing a shirtless Trudeau — he was wearing jeans and sunglasses — aboard the yacht, the Caravelle. The photos, the Mail on Sunday said, were taken by a tourist on a passing boat.
“She pulled up her boat next to a small public whale-watching boat, then they started making out. I didn’t realise who she was with until I saw the tattoo on the guy’s arm and I immediately realised it was Justin Trudeau,” the tourist said, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Trudeau has a Haida raven tattoo on his left shoulder.
Speculation has swirled for months about Perry and Trudeau. The couple was spotted having dinner in July at Montreal’s Le Violon restaurant, sparking rumours that the two were romantically involved, which was first reported by TMZ.
“Katy and Justin were lovely. Very kind and warm with the staff,” the restaurant told National Post in a statement in July.
Perry brought Palumbo up on stage with her this past July 22 in Vancouver after he screamed at the top of his lungs and shook his hands in the air.
“She gave me this little egg-shaped maraca type thing,” Palumbo said.
“We walked around the stage together and we sang the last little bit of her song (The One that Got Away) together.”
That prompts the question: is Perry the one that got away for Palumbo?
“Yeah, obviously, with Justin Trudeau,” Palumbo said.
He’s been a Katy Perry fan since childhood, guided by an older sister who was keen on the singer’s music.
“I grew up with my mom and my sister; I never really had that male in my life,” Palumbo said. “So, whatever music my sister listened to, I listened to.”
Palumbo doesn’t know how Perry, who was born and raised in Santa Barbara, Calif., kept the relationship with Trudeau, who was born in Ottawa and raised in Montreal, under wraps all summer.
“Your guess is as good as mine,” Palumbo said. “Good for them. If I (didn’t) want anybody to know, I wouldn’t tell anybody either.”
He suspects they’re letting the cat out of the bag now intentionally.
“At first, probably not, but the more they started hanging out together and being seen in public together, I think they’re slowly maybe wanting the public to know,” Palumbo said.
Sky News Australia called the pair “the golden couple of the left,” noting the photos on Perry’s yacht show her “cavorting” with Trudeau.
In the recently published shots, which were taken in September, Perry was wearing “a sleek one-piece swimsuit on the deck of the Caravelle while the former Canadian prime minister … was just clad in a pair of jeans,” according to Page Six, the New York Post’s celebrity and entertainment news section.
“The couple enjoyed a passionate kiss, and at one point, Trudeau cradled Perry’s bottom as they hugged on the upper deck,” said Page Six.
The famous couple was “packing on the PDA” in the yacht pics, according to E! News.
“This latest outing for the pair comes nearly three months after they first sparked romance rumours,” the entertainment news operation reported. “Justin and Katy were seen enjoying an intimate dinner in Montreal back in July as the Grammy-nominated artist was touring Canada, with the dating speculation only getting more intense as the former politician was then spotted just days later attending one of Katy’s (Montreal) shows.”
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