Key Takeaways
- Katy Perry marked her 42nd birthday with Justin Trudeau still publicly by her side.
- The pair were first linked after a Montreal dinner in July 2025 and later made several public appearances.
- There is no confirmed engagement or marriage, despite the couple's highly visible relationship.
A 42nd Birthday, One Year Into Pop's Most Unlikely Romance
Katy Perry turned 42 on Sunday, October 25, and the birthday tributes came with a familiar face beside her: former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. HELLO! magazine marked the day with a roundup of the couple's most affectionate public photos, noting that while Perry has been keeping a relatively low profile lately, with no active tour dates, the romance that began in the summer of 2025 has not slowed down.
The pairing of a global pop star and a former head of government was one of the surprise celebrity stories of 2025. A year and a half later, it is still going — and still drawing cameras wherever the two appear together.
How It Started: A Montreal Dinner
Perry and Trudeau were first spotted together in Montreal in late July 2025, dining at the restaurant Le Violon while Perry was in Canada on her Lifetimes Tour. The sighting came just weeks after Perry's split from actor Orlando Bloom, the father of her daughter Daisy, was announced.
By October 2025 the pair were photographed kissing aboard a yacht off Santa Barbara, and on October 25, 2025 — Perry's 41st birthday — they made their first public appearance as a couple, leaving the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris hand in hand. In December 2025, Perry shared photos and video of the two together on a trip to Japan, and Trudeau publicly referred to the pair as "Katy and I."
Red Carpets and 'the Love of My Life'
The couple made their red-carpet debut on June 8, 2026, at the Tribeca Festival in New York, where Trudeau supported Perry at the premiere of her Lifetimes Tour concert film. Days later, he attended the U.S. World Cup opener, where Perry performed, and spoke about his "supportive boyfriend duties."
In a September 2026 interview with People, Perry called Trudeau "the love of my life" and said he had attended 10 of her most recent 20 shows. Later that month, the two walked the red carpet together at the opening night gala of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles — their most recent major public outing before her birthday weekend.
What Comes Next
Despite the very public year, there is no confirmed engagement or marriage. Perry, one of the best-selling music artists of all time, is currently between touring cycles. Trudeau, 54, has been out of office since stepping down as prime minister in March 2025, and separated from Sophie Grégoire in 2023.
For now, the birthday photos tell the story: a pop star and a former prime minister, still together, and no longer hiding it.
Cover image: Katy Perry performing on the Lifetimes Tour in Budapest — photo by Misterwiki16 / Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Justin Trudeau in Hiroshima in May 2023 — photo by Ricardo Stuckert / Palácio do Planalto / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). The two photographs were combined into a single cover image.