2024 VMAs: Orlando Bloom Honors Katy Perry With Video Vanguard Award
While Katy Perry was showing the satellite what she’s worth, Orlando Bloom was attracting attraction of his own.
The “Firework” vocalist took the signifier astatine the 2024 MTV VMAs—hosted by Megan Thee Stallion—on Sept. 11, to springiness an epic nine-minute show of her top hits up of accepting the Video Vanguard Award.
Kicking disconnected Perry’s performance, the Pirates of the Caribbean prima introduced his “irresistible” fiancée to the crowd, gushing, “You fell successful emotion with her arsenic Katy Perry. I fell successful emotion with her arsenic Katherine Hudson. You cognize her arsenic a planetary superstar who brings love, light, and her unsocial consciousness of wit to each opus she writes and euphony video she creates. I cognize her arsenic a mother, arsenic a partner, who brings that aforesaid emotion and joyousness to our family.”
But arsenic the 39-year-old wowed connected signifier dancing and belting retired songs similar “Dark Horse,” “E.T.,” “California Gurls,” “I Kissed a Girl,” Firework,” and more, fans took enactment of Bloom successful the audience thanks to his facial expressions.
Indeed, Perry—who shares 4-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with Bloom—and collaborator Doechii got pulses racing to their caller sexy way “I’m His, He’s Mine,” leaning successful for a buss earlier the camera chopped to the British actor, who appeared to beryllium squinting astatine the signifier portion sitting adjacent to a smiling, singing Paris Hilton.
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The camera chopped backmost to the Lord of the Rings prima respective times passim the medley of songs wherever his inactive fig was noticeable amidst the dancing and singing fans.
Of course, the net took announcement and delighted successful Bloom’s reactions.
“Okay… Orlando Bloom’s absorption to Katy Perry shaking her butt cheeks, spreading eagle, scissoring and kissing a miss astatine #VMAs was beauteous iconic hahaha!” 1 instrumentality wrote, portion different noted, “Did it look to anyone other arsenic if orlando bloom whitethorn not beryllium acquainted with the opus california gurls.”
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However, it’s rather wide that the 2 stay each other’s biggest fans. In fact, in her Video Vanguard Acceptance speech, Perry gave Bloom a peculiar shoutout.
“Thank you to Orlando,” she said, “for keeping maine grounded, celebrated, and doing the dishes.”
The cheeky remark was a notation to Perry’s recent Call Her Daddy With Alex Cooper interview, where she shared that acts of work are her emotion language.
"If I travel downstairs and the room is clean, and you've done it all," Perry said connected the Sept. 4 episode, "and you've done each the dishes, and you've closed each the pantry doors, you amended beryllium acceptable to get your d--k sucked."
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