Orlando Bloom Reportedly Told Katy Perry The Blue Origin Space Flight Was “Cringeworthy” & “Embarrassing”

I mean, he’s right…

Of course, we all heard way more than we wanted to about the Blue Origin trip to space in April, where six women, including Perry, went on a rocket into outer space for an 11-minute flight, which also included Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Lauren Sánchez and Kerianne Flynn. Perry in particular made a lot of headlines leading up to the trip (she also ended up having drama with Wendy’s?), and all of them seemed excited about this wild adventure… well, everyone except for CBS News co-host, the aforementioned Gayle King.

Blue Origin takes passengers to the Kármán line, approximately 62-mile (100 km) above the surface of the Earth, which is a relatively arbitrary line that is regarded as the “boundary of space.” However, Blue Origin’s New Shepard are not ships that orbit Earth like the traditional NASA rocket launches we see. And just for reference, the international Space Station orbits at around 250 miles from the Earth’s surface.

Before they left, Lauren, the fiancée of billionaire Amazon and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos, said much of the trip was aimed at making space-wear (I guess that’s what I’m calling it?), more suitable to women and their fashion preferences… seems really unnecessary to me, but whatever.

They have the money, so knock yourself out, I guess…

Weightless and limitless. pic.twitter.com/GQgHd0aw7i

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) April 14, 2025

But the group of women received a lot of criticism online, and by other celebrities even, for the gluttonous nature of the whole thing and the fact that there genuinely was no point in this other than getting press… they didn’t explore, or actually do anything while in space… they were up there for less than ten minutes. One of richest men in the world let his fiancée and her famous friends ride in a space ship… not exactly a groundbreaking feat here. Again, it’s their money and company, do whatever you want, but something about it does feel kind of dystopian. I’ve seen tons of people comparing it to The Hunger Games:

Call me pessimistic but I’m sick of the billion dollar space bullshit when people are starving and homeless on the ground. It’s giving Hunger Games Capital https://t.co/k01qHGwrdU

— Jake O’Kane (@jakeo_kane) April 14, 2025

No one was more insufferable about the whole thing than Katy Perry, though, and honestly, I like some of her big hits, but generally she can come across as pretty annoying during interviews, and making this whole space thing something it wasn’t and acting like you’re a real astronaut it just getting old… in this interview, she seems to genuinely genuinely believe she’s an astronaut now:

Katy Perry full interview after being in space. #KATYPERRYINSPACE Read More