Music megastar finalises new album and gears up for UK tour after break of six years
KATY Perry is ready to bring her pop perfection back to the masses next year.
We have been told the chart-topper has been hard at work on her seventh studio album — her first since 2020’s Smile — and has almost completed the project.
In even more exciting news she is planning to tour the UK again after a break of six years.
She has spent the past two years performing a hit residency in Las Vegas and is now ready to get back out to the rest of the world.
A music insider said: “Katy has been working on her most personal album ever for much of the past two years.
“She has been doing it on her own terms and it is quite different from anything she has released before.
“But after so long spent on the West Coast of the US, she feels ready to tour again.
“The demand is there because she has so many hits, so taking her show on the road is bound to be a big draw.
“The hope is that she can head out towards the end of 2024, but it is still being worked out.”
She said in 2019 that she had grown tired of flying around the world.
But in May this year she said: “I still love making music. I still love spreading light and love.
“I know there’s a lot of people who couldn’t make it to Vegas.
“The last time I was on tour was in 2018. I’m due to go out and see the kids that couldn’t make it to Vegas.”
Place of love
Earlier this year Katy, who performed at King Charles’ Coronation concert, also hinted at the subject of her new music — her daughter Daisy with fiance Orlando Bloom.
She explained: “I haven’t put any new material out since my darling Daisy.
“I think I’m writing a lot and have written a lot from a place of love because I’m feeling so much of it — so much unconditional love, that love you never knew existed.”
With 15 Top Ten singles, including No1 hits I Kissed A Girl, Roar and California Gurls, Katy is one of the most colourful, vivacious and fun pop stars of the 21st century.
Getting her back on stage here, along with new music, will be a real treat.
SOPHIE Ellis-Bextor has signed up to headline an intimate one-off concert to highlight the loneliness which disabled people can experience.
The Murder On The Dancefloor singer will perform at the Stop The Shadows night at London’s Hard Rock Cafe on January 23, which will be hosted by Men Behaving Badly actor Neil Morrissey.
The event, organised by Able2UK, will also feature a performance from The Kooks’ Luke Pritchard as well as interviews with comedian Josh Widdicombe and music legend Tony Christie.
Tickets are on sale now at crosstownconcerts.com.
TIMOTHEE Chalamet had a lads’ trip on Christmas Day.
The Wonka actor is seen here with dad Marc as the Los Angeles Lakers got beaten by the Boston Celtics in LA.
Timothee’s girlfriend Kylie Jenner must have been doing her hair.
Claire’s cheeky secrets
CLAIRE Richards has admitted she spends a fortune on skincare treatments to stay young – and it’s clearly working.
The Steps singer, who released second solo album Euphoria this year, is so eager to look youthful that she says she feels like Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep’s characters in 1992 comedy horror flick Death Becomes Her, where they drink a cursed magic potion that promises eternal youth.
She said: “The one thing that I spend money on is treatments on my face because I don’t want to get old.
“I’m going to be drinking that Death Becomes Her potion if I can get my hands on it.
“I have HydraFacials once a month and I’ve had this thing called Profhilo, which plumps up your skin.”
But the most extreme measure that she has resorted to so far is a microneedling treatment which is believed to stimulate collagen – and costs more than £500 a time.
Claire said of it: “I’ve had Morpheus8. It hurts but it’s worth it.”
MARIAH’S HAPPY SPLITMAS
MARIAH Carey could still raise a smile despite ex Bryan Tanaka ending their seven-year relationship.
Part of his Instagram post announcing the split read: “The memories we’ve created and the artistic collaborations are etched in my heart for ever.”
It’s nearly as nauseating as Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s “conscious uncoupling” . . .
McFly boys are ready for a takeover
McFLY have replacements waiting in the wings whenever they are ready to quit.
Drummer Harry Judd has revealed their children are even more musical than them.
The dad of three, in the band with Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter, told me: “Tom’s kids already have a band. He’s got three boys. They’re called Buxy.”
He said wife Izzy looked after their kids while they were on tour.
He added: “They set up a stage from our studio. Tom’s boys and my son, they’re totally taken by it.
“They see us on stage and my son is six and knows all the different guitars, which are used for which songs, who plays what guitar part…
“Izzy’s family is very musical so I think his talent comes from them. He’s properly playing, it’s incredible, so exciting.”
KIM’S UP FUR A PARTY
KANYE West was nowhere to be seen as his ex-wife Kim Kardashian celebrated Christmas at home with their kids.
She transformed herself into a snow queen in this dress for a picture their four children North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.
Though North did wear his dad’s jewelled Balmain jacket from the 2016 Met Gala in New York.
Kim threw a quirky Christmas for her family by wrapping all of her gifts in stretchy fabric from her Skims clothing line, bringing 30 trees into her home and filling her hallways with fake snow.
Kanye popped up this week to apologise to Jewish people for his vile remarks about them in late 2022 and early 2023.
Kanye being pleasant, for once, is a real Christmas miracle.