As the singer and former Canadian PM get together, we look at the history of romances between artists and politicians
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is dad dated Barbra Streisand and his mother partied with the Rolling Stones, so perhaps it is no shock to see the former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau romantically linked with the American singer Katy Perry.
But it is a surprise. “This was NOT on my 2025 bingo card,” posted the entertainment news site Tyla in July, when the couple were first spotted together in Montreal. Grazia magazine this week labelled them “2025’s most surprising couple”.
At the weekend Trudeau, 53, and Perry were seen leaving Le Crazy Horse Cabaret Club in Paris on Perry’s 41st birthday. They were holding hands. Neither has publicly commented, but the image is seen as the couple confirming that they are indeed an item.
