Orlando Bloom gives Katy Perry VMAs 2024 Video Vanguard Award

Katy Perry roared onto the VMAs stage Wednesday evening to just accept the 2024 Video Vanguard — and planted a fats one on her vital different, Orlando Bloom, who offered her with the long-lasting honor.

The “Rise” singer, 39, took residence the VMAs’ prime honor — basically MTV’s tackle a lifetime achievement award.

Bloom gushed over his longtime love, with whom he shares 3-year-old daughter Daisy. The “Troy” star known as Perry by her actual title — Katy Hudson — earlier than telling her, “Child, so pleased with you.”

“ her as a worldwide celebrity… I do know her as a mom, as a companion who brings that very same love and pleasure to our household,” he mentioned. “You fell in love along with her as Katy Perry. I fell in love along with her as Katheryn Hudson.”

He then launched her, and he or she sang a medley of her best hits, together with “Darkish Horse,” “E.T.,” “California Gurls,” and extra.

After the pair joked who’s watching their daughter Daisy, Perry gave her personal speech to the gang.

“Thanks. I did that each one on my first day of my interval, too. Are you able to consider it?” she mentioned. “I simply need to say with my complete coronary heart, do no matter it takes to remain true to your self and true to your artwork. Flip off social media. Safeguard your psychological well being, pause, contact grass, and do what you have been born to do, similar to I used to be born to do that.”

She even joked about her and Bloom’s intercourse life after just lately revealing that she provides oral intercourse if he cleans the dishes.

She quipped: “Thanks for conserving me floor[ed] and celebrated and doing the dishes.”

Perry follows within the footsteps of different legendary artists who’ve taken residence the prize, together with Shakira, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott, David Bowie and even The Beatles.

Perry and Bloom are not any strangers to PDA.

The singer just lately made headlines for saying she performs an X-rated intercourse act on the film star if he goes the dishes. Perry additionally didn’t scold Bloom when a photograph displaying him trying out Kim Kardashian’s butt went viral.

Perry hasn’t been to the VMAs stage since 2017, when she took on the twin duties of host and performer. She closed that yr’s ceremony with a efficiency of “Swish Swish” alongside Nicki Minaj.

The “Darkish Horse” singer has gained 5 different VMAs over the course of her profession. She earned three awards in 2011 for Video of the Yr, for “Firework,” and Greatest Collaboration and Greatest Particular Results, each for “E.T.,” that includes Kanye West.

She adopted up these wins with a fourth Moon Individual in 2012 for Greatest Artwork Course (“Large Awake”) and yet another in 2014 for Greatest Feminine Video (“Darkish Horse” that includes Juicy J).

Perry additionally turns into solely the tenth artist to win each Video of the Yr and the Vanguard Award, becoming a member of the rarefied ranks of Madonna, Peter Gabriel, R.E.M., Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Pink and Missy Elliott.

Much more impressively, the previous “American Idol” host scored a VMAs first on Wednesday evening, changing into the primary individual to have each hosted the present and obtained the VMAs’ two prime honors (Video of the Yr and Video Vanguard).

Perry has had her share of memorable moments on the VMAs over time as nicely. 

In her VMAs debut again in 2009, the singer joined forces with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry to present a rousing rendition of Queen’s iconic “We Will Rock You.” She turned out one other showstopping quantity in 2013, ending the awards present with a efficiency of her music “Roar” in entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Other than her VMAs honors, Perry has racked up a heap of different achievements over her profession, amassing a cumulative 115 billion streams and promoting over 70 million adjusted albums and 143 million tracks worldwide.

She’s one in all simply 5 recording artists within the historical past of the Recording Trade Affiliation of America to enter the 100 Million Licensed Songs membership, and has six singles and one album which have all been Diamond-certified. 

Perry’s Video Vanguard win follows the discharge of her new single, “Lifetimes,” and comes forward of her new album, “143,” dropping on September 20.