Katy Perry is single following her breakup with professional elf actor Orlando Bloom, so now seems like as good a time as any to brush off her dating history. Which, honestly? Is absolutely stacked with famous people—including some complete randoms (Diplo) who we fully forgot about.
Johnny Lewis: 2005 to 2006
Katy and late actor Johnny Lewis dated for about a year in the early aughts. It was before Katy was ultra-ultra famous so their relationship wasn’t extensively reported on!
Travie McCoy: 2007 to 2008
Katy and the Gym Class Heroes frontman dated for less than a year, and apparently Katy broke things off via email. At least according to Travie, who said, “It started off with ‘I love you so much I hate to do this…Someone that you are ready to spend the rest of your life with sends you a fucking email just shitting on your whole parade. It destroyed me.”
Josh Groban: 2009
These two had a brief fling in 2009, and it made enough of an impression that Katy wrote “The One That Got Away” about Josh. He was asked about inspiring the song by Andy Cohen, and replied “We did [date]. We were both very private, and so we realized we were better as friends. And we’ve been very, very good friends to this day. She’s the best. But, I was not expecting that. That was a double take and a spit out my coffee when I saw that.”
Russell Brand: 2009 to 2011
Katy and Russell met at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, married in 2010, and then divorced 14 months later. Katy opened up about their split to Vogue, saying “At first when I met him, he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they’re like, I can’t handle the equalness. He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour. So that was really hurtful, and it was very controlling, which was upsetting. Let’s just say I haven’t heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011.”
Russell has since been charged with rape and sexual assault in the UK, which he has denied.
Robert Ackroyd: 2012
Katy seems to have briefly dated the Florence and the Machine guitarist? By which I mean E! News reported that they were seen holding hands at Coachella, where Katy reportedly referred to him as her “boyfriend.”
John Mayer: 2012 to 2014
Their relationship was extremely on-again off-again, but it all started over dinner at Chateau Marmont in August 2012. Then it briefly ended in April 2013, when a source told E! News “John still very much loves [Katy] and has feelings for her. It was just going to be too much with what was on his plate.” They were back together by June, there were engagement rumors by November, and they were officially done in February 2014.
John’s since confirmed that his song “Still Feel Like Your Man” is about Katy, telling the New York Times, “Who else would I be thinking about? And by the way, it’s a testament to the fact that I have not dated a lot of people in the last five, six years. That was my only relationship. So it’s like, give me this, people.”
Diplo: 2014
Katy and Diplo were linked in April 2014, when they showed up at Coachella together. The relationship didn’t last, and Katy ranked Diplo third on her list of ex-lovers (after John Mayer and Orlando Bloom). He responded by tweeting “I don’t even remember having sex.”
Orlando Bloom: 2016 to 2017
As we know from Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet’s makeout session, the Golden Globes is one of the horniest events in Hollywood. And it’s where Katy and Orlando hit it off! They started dating mere weeks after the above photo was taken, and were going strong for almost a year before breaking things off in February of 2017. Their rep even released a statement to People, saying, “Before rumors or falsifications get out of hand, we can confirm that Orlando and Katy are taking respectful, loving space at this time.”
Meanwhile, Katy tweeted this:
The pair were back together by 2018, and even went “Visit to the Pope Official”:
They then got engaged in 2019, and welcomed their daughter Daisy Dove a couple years later in 2020!
Katy and Orlando then spent five years chilling in Montecito together, but everything changed in 2025 and they ended up parting ways. TBD on what went wrong, but according to a source who spoke to the Daily Mail, Orlando wasn’t here for Katy’s brief trip to space.
“He told her the whole thing looked ridiculous,” the insider said. “He said it was cringeworthy. Embarrassing. This was in the middle of a fight, and it hurt her feelings. Of course she was hurt. Imagine going to space—motherfucking space—and your partner isn’t impressed. She hoped he’d be more supportive.”
That brings us up to date, but stay tuned…
