Orlando Bloom’s tribute to Katy Perry at VMAs: ‘She loves with her whole heart’

By Charlotte McLaughlin, PA Senior Leisure Reporter

Orlando Bloom kissed his accomplice Katy Perry after paying a loving tribute to her on stage on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).

Perry acquired the Video Vanguard award, which recognises lifetime achievement, on the UBS Enviornment on New York’s Lengthy Island on Wednesday night.

She follows Beyonce, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Rihanna who’ve all been beforehand honoured with the gong.

British actor Bloom, 47, introduced the prize to Perry, who he shares daughter Daisy Dove with, by speaking about what she means to him personally, and utilizing her actual title on the VMAs.

The Lord Of The Rings star advised the viewers: “You fell in love along with her as Katy Perry, I fell in love along with her as Katheryn Hudson.

“ her as a worldwide celebrity who brings love, mild and her distinctive sense of humour to each track she writes and music video she creates. I do know her as a mom, as a accomplice who brings that very same love and pleasure to our household.

“In moments after we’ve most wanted it, her music and the outstanding world she creates have introduced a way of pleasure and laughter, inspiring generations of individuals from all around the world.

“She loves along with her complete coronary heart and it’s type of irresistible.”

He added “congratulations on this honour, child, I’m so pleased with you”, and referenced her seventh album, referred to as 143, which 39-year-old Perry has beforehand mentioned is what she calls her angel quantity.

Sliding down onto to the stage, Perry arrived and embraced and kissed Bloom whereas holding a butterfly.

The couple additionally confirmed public affection for one another on the crimson carpet of the Kering Basis’s Caring for Ladies dinner in New York Metropolis on Monday, whereas kissing in entrance of photographers.

On the VMAs, Perry carried out a medley of her greatest songs, together with Roar, Teenage Dream and Firework.

She accepted her prize saying: “I did that every one too on the primary day of my interval too, are you able to imagine it.

“Thanks a lot MTV for believing in my weirdness from day one and for serving to artists lengthen their worlds past a track.

“There are such a lot of issues that should align to have a protracted and profitable profession as an artist.

“There are not any decade-long accidents.”