The rumor is in Overdrive this week when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was seen having dinner with the pop star Katy Perry in Montreal, two nights before appearing in his concert there.
The photos and video of TMZ of Perry and Trudeau talk to each other on Monday night at a table for two in Le Violon, a high -hour establishment led by the famous chef Danny Smiles, triggered a swirl of speculation.
Perry, who recently separated from the Orlando Bloom actor, brought his Lifestimal Concert tour to Montreal’s Bell Center on Wednesday night, where Trudeau was caught again through the camera seemed to have a good time while doing successes like Dark horse.
A photo for the first time shared on Wednesday night on the account of the news of the Pop Crave social networks showed Trudeau, who separated from the ex -wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau in 2023 and resigned as prime minister earlier this year, in the crowd. A cameraman from Radio Canada in the program confirmed that he saw the former prime minister.
More videos emerged on social networks, even a fan account in X, as the night progressed.
His previous meeting has already caused gossip that the couple can be dating, although Samantha Jin, a communications consultant from Le Violon, told the Canadian press on Tuesday that there were no indications of any kind of romance in the air during their dinner together.
But when it comes to the hum that is generating, the nature of its night may not really matter. Both Trudeau and Perry have had a bit of a bad press in recent years and public relations experts say that their appearance together gives each one the opportunity to change the conversation.
“I thought that for both of them, this was actually a great brand and a reputational movement,” said Natasha Koifman, president of NKPR, a public relations agency in Toronto.
The benefits of being seen
Koifman says that while he played his dinner as more intimate than others suggest, he has little doubt that they wanted to be seen, since there were probably more private options than a table next to the window.
“I think that was probably a strategic movement,” he told CBC News. “I think it elevates its two brands, for very different reasons, so that they look together.”
2025 was not the most favorable year for Trudeau or Perry.
Trudeau, 53, saw writing on the wall for his political future, in the midst of the numbers of sunken surveys and the internal struggle of the Liberal Party, and announced his resignation in January, after almost a decade in office.
Perry, 40, has been fighting the headlines about their lives of lives that is not sold. His space flight in the blue rocket of Jeff Bezos in April, along a team of space travelers of totally feminine space travelers. The Daily Beast The writer Kevin Fallon raised the question: “Why do everyone hate Katy Perry so much?”
Perry has presented himself as “a little deaf” and “self -control” in the interviews, says Koifman, and was “only a bad movement after another” that led to the accumulation of detractors.
Eric Schiffer, CEO of reputation management consultants at Beverly Hills, California, tends to agree, saying that Perry “put himself in a position in which he threatened professional extinction.”
But he also believes that Trudeau has a lot to win from the talk about the excursion, since he left office at a low political point.
“You have these two individual brands that are, in a way, marginalized that are joining and … they could help rebuild each other,” he said.
Celebrity factor
The meeting was something unexpected, says Sharan Kaur, director of the Public Relations Management and Crisis Management Firm, but there is probably additional interest because it is the first great “speculation of anything” that Trudeau has had, postpolitic and post-matrimonity.
She is not thinking that it was anything other than two people who wanted to have dinner together and says that it doesn’t really think that is anyone’s issue.
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But it is not out of the ordinary for a political figure like Trudeau to pale with celebrities, said Kaur, who also worked as a cabinet deputy director of former Trudeau finance minister, Bill Morneau.
She says she has always had her own “celebrity atmosphere for him”, both nationally and internationally, especially taking into account her high -profile family, with her father of the first first two, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and her mother Margaret Trudeau; Both had their own relations with celebrities after division in 1977.
But Kaur wonders if Trudeau can be trying to rely a little more on that celebrity factor, now that he is no longer occupying the position.
While she agrees that the appointment It is a good press, he asks if he can be less useful for Trudeau’s reputation if he is trying to be seen as “the serious guy” in his postpolitic life.
“I would probably have avoided spending celebrities in public spaces,” he said, instead of feeding the narratives of experts, “he looks like a celebrity.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, have published online statements saying that they are separating after 18 years of marriage.
