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Katy Perry to Sing About Russell Brand at Billboard Awards?
Originally posted 05/20/2012 12:00PM
Is Katy Perry trying to send a message to Russell Brand?
The singer, whose divorce from Brand is supposed to be finalized next month, is set to sing a revealing breakup song, "Wide Awake" off her latest album, this Sunday at The Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, PEOPLE has learned.
"It's obviously about Russell," a source said, though Perry has not publicly confirmed it.
The song speaks about being blinded by love, including the lyrics, "I wish I knew then what I know now – wouldn't dive in, wouldn't bow down."
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Katy Perry Cuddles with New Guy at Coachella
Originally posted 04/23/2012 11:15AM
Katy Perry appears to have found a new guy in the music business. And where else to make their first public appearance together than at a rock festival?
The pop star, 27, was spotted kissing, hugging and swaying to music with Robert Ackroyd, a guitarist for English indie-pop band Florence + the Machine, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., this weekend.
Perry was all smiles, in a purple outfit with a gold sunburst pattern, matching her newly dyed purple hair, as she danced the night away with Ackroyd, outfitted simply in jeans and a white T-shirt – revealing his heavily tattooed forearms.
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Katy Perry Keeps the Coachella Partying Going Past 4 a.m.!
Originally posted 04/17/2012 05:50AM
Coming straight from a rainy M83 concert at Coachella, Katy Perry arrived at 2 a.m. with six male pals at the Hennessy V.S. Presents Details @ Midnight party.
A seemingly upbeat Perry, who showed off newly dyed purple hair, ran inside the bash to dance and mingle with the crowd. And a source tells us that her late arrival kept the festivities going until 4 a.m. – past the scheduled end time.
And a long night out didn't stop the pop star from having enough energy to hit the party circuit the next day; she made her way during the mid-afternoon to the Lacoste L!ve/HTC Pool Party at a private home in Thermal, Calif.
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Listen Now: PEOPLE's Exclusive Spotify Playlist
Originally posted 04/11/2012 06:00AM
It's the ultimate feel-good playlist!
PEOPLE celebrates real beauty with our exclusive Spotify playlist of songs about what really matters. Don't miss songs from Christina Aguilera, Pink, PEOPLE's Most Beautiful Woman of 2012, Beyoncé and other stars as we celebrate the winners of our Real Beauty at Every Age contest.
Just click on the "Beauty and the Beats" playlist below to hear the hits from Spotify.
Happy listening!
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Russell Brand 'Doesn't Hold on to Anything Negative'
Originally posted 03/30/2012 06:50PM
Russell Brand is returning to his roots: bachelorhood and standup comedy.
"I'm doing well," Brand, whose marriage to Katy Perry ended in December, after 14 months, tells PEOPLE.
Waxing philosophical about life, the British comedian, 36, suggests there was no reason he shouldn't be well. "You don't need to brush it off if you don’t get it on you in the first place," he says, not specifically defining what "it" is.
But, he insists, "I don't have to let anything go. I don't hold on to anything negative. It's the same as zero-ness."
Katy Perry Transforms Into a Marine for New Music Video
Originally posted 03/22/2012 01:05PM
In her latest music video, Katy Perry is laying off the sweets. No cotton candy and no cupcake bra.
Instead, she cuts her hair, wraps down her breasts and joins the Marine Corps.
The video for Perry's power-pop breakup anthem "Part of Me" – a song she says is not about her ex-husband Russell Brand, from whom she split in December 2011 – shows off her sugar-free, tough-tom boy side.
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Russell Brand Arrested in New Orleans
Originally posted 03/16/2012 07:55AM
Not a pretty picture.
Russell Brand was taken into police custody Thursday in New Orleans after he allegedly grabbed a photographer's iPhone and threw it out a window, according to reports.
The comedian, 36, was released after posting $5,000 bail, New Orleans police spokesman Garry Flot told Reuters.
The alleged phone-tossing incident occurred Monday, when a paparazzi photographer filed a police report stating that Brand, whose divorce from Katy Perry was finalized last month, had grabbed his iPhone while the photographer was sitting in a car and hurled it out a window, breaking the window in the process.
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Katy Perry Finds Puppy Love in Paris
Originally posted 03/07/2012 03:30PM
Has this loud-and-proud cat lady had a change of heart?
Katy Perry found herself falling for a pooch after meeting a fan's Chihuahua Wednesday in Paris.
The young fan, named Madeline, was waiting outside the singer's hotel with her dog Gucci when Perry emerged, and the singer was immediately taken with the tiny pup. In town to attend Fashion Week, Perry took a few minutes to chat with Madeline and pose for a snuggly photo with the little furball.
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Katy Perry Guest Stars on Raising Hope: How Did She Do?
Originally posted 03/07/2012 02:30PM
Katy Perry, is that you?
On Tuesday night's episode of FOX's Raising Hope, the pop star made a head-turning guest appearance, trading her blue locks for a teased-to-the-heavens red curly wig. Not to mention a fake mustache.
In the episode, Sabrina (played by Shannon Woodward) gets arrested for kicking a police officer at a protest and she's carted off to jail. There, she encounters Perry's character Rikki, a guard who insists she was Sabrina's one-time frenemy and makes her time in the slammer as uncomfortable as possible.
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Katy Perry: Breakup Song 'Part Of Me' Is Not About Russell Brand
Originally posted 03/05/2012 08:20AM
The devastating lyrics are about love gone wrong. But Katy Perry insists her latest hit, "Part of Me," isn't about her ex, Russell Brand.
"I wrote it two years ago, which is funny because everybody is like 'God, it sounds so current,' " the pop star, 27, who unveiled the song at this year's Grammy Awards, tells MTV News.
The song is full of jabs and barbs – the lines "You can keep the diamond ring/It don't mean nothing anyway" seemed particularly apt – but Perry isn't going to lie about the timing of it.
"Some people that I work with were like, 'You should just say you wrote it a couple of weeks ago,' " she says. "I'm like, 'I'm not a d---, I'm going to tell the truth.' I wrote it two years ago when I was writing and recording Teenage Dream, [but] it didn't feel right on the record."
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