Photoshoot: Katy Perry poses for Jake Bailey's new photoshoot

Katy Perry is gorgeous for the Jake Bailey 2012 photoshoot. She is lensed in a series of high profile shots with slicked back hair, sultry smoky eyes, and a natural lip colour.

Katie's signature dramatic lashes are on display, and for other shots, she proudly displays her purple hair with a plum mouth and flawless skin.

Jake Bailey is a celebrity makeup artist who has worked with Angelina Jolie, Olivia Munn, Taylor Swift, among other top stars.

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Katy Perry vows to be serious about work

Singer Katy Perry says her music is taking a darker turn following her split from Russell Brand and it is time to tackle more serious issues as far as her career goes.

Brand filed for divorce last year after 14 months of marriage to the 27-year-old.

"I feel I have a lot to say on the next record. I have a lot to flush out of the system. I am not saying that I am not going to be the candy queen any more, but I think it's time for more meat and potatoes," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Perry as saying.

"With 'Teenage Dream', I created this cotton candy cloud with a kind of a wink and a kiss, and it was all cute and fun and playful. Now it's as if I have had to step off this cloud and face reality," she added.

Her struggle to keep her marriage alive can be seen in her concert movie "Katy Perry: Part Of Me".

"I made that sacrifice because I had made a commitment. Sometimes I had to fly in on the day of the show, completely jet-lagged and feeling like I had been hung by my ankles, and have to go on stage," she said.

Katy Perry: I'm in a modern fairytale, but now I know I don't need Prince Charming

As I’m ushered in to see Katy Perry, I’m expecting the usual Hollywood outrage if I dare ask about the emotional rollercoaster that’s hurt her so badly.


Her estranged husband, comic Russell Brand, blew his top when TV host Graham Norton brought up the impending divorce.


But despite Katy’s PR people hovering near us in her Los Angeles hotel suite, the pop princess nods sadly when I say she must have been through hell.


Katy, 27, clearly isn’t your typical image-controlled superstar, and she opens up when I ask her what she has learnt from the past year when she had to cope with that very public marriage split.


“I’ve learnt I’m in a very modern fairytale,” she replies after a moment’s thought. “But I also know I don’t need the Prince Charming to have a happy ending. I can make the happy ending myself.”


Then, knowing I’m from London like her ex, she adds with a wink: “But I still like London boys… except one.”


Katy’s honesty also shines through in her new 3D documentary, Katy Perry: Part of Me. Made by British film-maker Dan Cutforth and New Yorker Jane Lipsitz, it follows Katy over the course of a year when she had phenomenal success with hits such as Last Friday Night (TGIF).

Her album, Teenage Dream, became only the second, after Michael Jackson’s Bad, to produce five US No1 singles and her California Dreams tour featured 124 arena shows across the US, Europe, South America and the Far East.

But the 300 hours of footage shot over the year also show her curled-up, crying and barely able to move as the emotional pain hit home when Russell filed for divorce.

In one heart-rending scene, Katy is in pieces backstage at a gig in Sao Paulo – but somehow slaps a smile on her face and performs.

“I could feel the energy and support from my fans,” she said.

“Just before I started a song, they kept saying in Portuguese, ‘Katy, we love you’ and I felt comforted by that.

“Watching it in the edit suite later I was saying, ‘This is OK’.

“I’d just needed a shoulder to help me walk up the steps. I had to bend over so my false eyelashes didn’t come off.

“I couldn’t let the tears stream because it would ruin the make-up.

“But I got through it. I’ve learnt a lot and am moving forward one step at a time.

“It was a year I’ll never be able to recreate. It had amazing highs and some big lows, but that’s life.

“Everyone goes through the good and the bad and it makes you stronger. But my ultimate goal is to make people smile.”

It’s difficult not to smile when talking with Katy. She has an infectiously bubbly personality and laughs a lot. But she is also wise beyond her years.

The singer, famed for outrageous costumes, is wearing a white sequinned dress and her long, dark hair is tinged with purple.

She has a tattoo on her inner wrist that says in Sanskrit “Go with the flow”.

Katy is an intriguing blend of sexy and innocent. Yet she is the daughter of two devout Christian ministers who kept a strict household and did not allow any music in the house other than gospel.

Katy learnt to play guitar and sang wherever and whenever she could.

She said: “When I was 13 I’d sing on the corner at open air markets and put my guitar case out.

“People weren’t sitting listening, they were just passing so there wasn’t a lot to be nervous about and I’d make maybe 10 dollars. It was a nice way to start.”

She released a Christian pop album under her real name of Katy Hudson but it only sold around 100 copies.

Then she landed a contract with Capitol Records, shedding her Christian roots and good-girl image and zooming to the top of the charts in 2008 with the album One of the Boys, which featured the cheeky single I Kissed a Girl.

She dated several musicians, including Travie McCoy, of Gym Class Heroes, before meeting Brand while filming a cameo for comedy film Get Him to the Greek, which the comedian, 37, was starring in.

They were reunited at the MTV Video Music Awards and announced their engagement in January 2010 after a four-month courtship. They married in the October but he filed for divorce 14 months later, citing irreconcilable differences.

The marriage had started to crumble while she was on her year-long tour.

Katy says she tried her hardest to keep the relationship going, adding: “Being in love is the dream.

“But the reality of making it work is not like the movies.”

She also recently said: “I really wish I had more time to be cuddled right now, but I don’t. And I am very particular.”

Katy tells me that watching the two-hour film was strange and uncomfortable.

She said: “There were things that made my tummy turn when I saw them because I had already lived them and really didn’t want to live them again. But I thought maybe if I showed I got through the problems, other people wouldn’t feel so alone in their problems.

“It was important to leave some of the more difficult things in the film so it wasn’t a narcissistic film about how great I am. Because I’m not all great.

“We all feel our problems are unique but we all go through a lot of the same things and it’s not about the problem, it’s about how you solve it.

“So the whole movie is about me overcoming obstacles, my upbringing, the guys in suits from the record labels and then my personal struggle – going through it and landing on my feet.

“The message is pretty simple — it’s ‘be yourself and you can be anything’.”

If you’re Katy, being yourself is a combination of fun and hard work.

“I like to have fun and get crazy but I do that in my private time,” she said.

She is also working on starting a record label, writing songs, planning an album and promoting the film.

“What holds me up is focus, determination and an incredible ambition that hasn’t subsided yet,” she added.

“I know I have been given something great and I have a certain responsibility so I try to keep a moral compass about me in everything that I do.
I ask the karma gods if this is going to turn me into something hideous, or if it’s going to be good for me.

“It’s been a long journey of learning, tolerance and acceptance because I’ve met different people and travelled a lot and educated myself instead of wandering around aimless and ignorant. I hope to evolve every day and be a better version of who I was yesterday.”

Despite the heartache, Katy says that she is still a romantic and hopes to have a family.

“I want to be a mother but now’s not the right time,” she revealed.

“A baby can’t have a baby, and I’m still a baby.”

When I ask if she is afraid of falling in love again, she says: “No, absolutely not. I’m excited for the future, whatever it brings. I still believe in love, most definitely.”



By John Hiscock

Katy Perry teams up with Missy Elliott for "Last Friday Night" remix

Katy Perry's "Friday Night" party has no signs of stopping any time soon. She's just enlisted Missy Elliott for a remix to the hit track.

Billboard confirms that the new remix to "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" with Elliott is set to hit radio, the Internet, and digital retailers on Monday.

The single sets Missy up for a big-time comeback, as the song is poised to take the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100. Missy is getting ready to release her first album since 2005's "The Cookbook."

It's Missy's first appearance on a major single since the remix to last year's "Everything to Me" with Monica, which hit #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

If Katy Perry moves up to #1 on the Hot 100, where LMFAO and their "Party Rock Anthem" has kept her from inching up to the top spot for weeks, she'll match the record broken for Michael Jackson as the only artist to achieve five #1 singles on the Hot 100 from a single album.

While Jackson become the only artist, male or female, to achieve the feat back in 1988 with his "Bad" album, Katy Perry's hits have come off her "Teenage Dream" album, which has yielded #1's from the title track--first single "California Gurls" with Snoop Dogg, "E.T." with Kanye West, and "Firework."

Katy Perry sports Smurf dress; Jennifer Lopez parties in Miami

"My heart felt really sad," said Katy Perry this morning on Good Morning America as she remembered Amy Winehouse, noting that the news "gave me a gratefulness for my husband (Russell Brand) who got clean" nine years ago. "I see how much work it takes to be clean and sober..." Last night, Katy walked the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of the new Smurfs movie. ...

In other news this Monday morning:

Jennifer Lopez celebrated her 42nd birthday last night in Miami with family. ... Former Hills star Kristin Cavallari and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler are said to have called off their engagement. ... Goldie Hawn looks great in orange for her date night with Kurt Russell. ... Eva Longoria also opted for orange recently. ... Suri's pushing a baby stroller. ... Captain America beat Harry Potter at the box office. ... Kanye West and Jay-Z have announced tour dates to support their new album. ... And finally, look for Mariah Carey, live, on Home Shopping Network at noon ET today. ...

Russell plans second honeymoon with Katy

Russell Brand is reportedly planning to whisk Katy Perry away to the Far East for a month-long second honeymoon.

The trip will include at least a week in China, where comic Russ wants to walk the Great Wall with his singer missus.

"Russell is desperate to treat Katy. Even if a great film role comes up he will turn it down for the trip as he wants more of a work/life balance and to enjoy his new wife," the Sun quoted a source as saying.

"Katy''s been saying how she''ll want a break after the tour she is on. And while they''d love a beach holiday, they also want to be adventurous and see more of the world before they start a family," the source added.

Arcade Fire wins Album of the Year

Los Angeles, Feb 14 – Indie rock band Arcade Fire has won Album of the Year for ‘The Suburbs’ at the Grammy Awards. 

The band beat Katy Perry (‘Teenage Dream’), Lady Gaga (‘The Fame Monster’), Lady Antebellum (‘Need You Now’) and Eminem (‘Recovery’) to win one of the top honours at 53rd edition of Grammy Awards Sunday. 

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I didn’t know my ‘enormous’ boobs would come in handy someday: Katy Perry

New York, Feb 9 – Singer Katy Perry has admitted that she used to lament having big breasts, but now they’ve ‘come in handy.’

“I was shaped like a square at one time. I was!” the New York Daily News quoted her as telling Elle magazine.

“I’m generally around 130 pounds, which is totally fine for me.

“But when I was a kid, I was the same height and weighed more like 145.

“And I had enormous boobs that I didn’t know what to do with, so I wore minimizers, which were not cute. Those thick-ass straps! I got made fun of for the over-the-shoulder boulder holder… and all I wanted was to look like Kate Moss.

“Little did I know…that these things would come in handy someday,” the 26-year-old said.

Still, Perry told the magazine that she believes “it’s important to be relatable and normal.”

“And I think that what helps with that, for me, is that I had the rug pulled out from underneath my feet so many times,” the singer said.

“It was like, ‘Listen up, b—-, you’re not going to get served this on a silver platter – you’ve got to work for it!’ I don’t feel like I can act like an entitled b—- yet! I still have so much to prove,” she added. (ANI)

Katy Perry is latest celebrity to sport scary stiletto nail trend

Wellington, Feb 04 – These days, celebrities are taking fashion to a whole new level. And newlywed Katy Perry is just one of them.

The singer has become the latest celebrity to sport the rather scary stiletto nail trend.

The California Dreams singer posted a photo on her Twitter page showing her latest manicure – long, gold and very pointed.

“This took 4eva to type,” Stuff.co.nz quoted her as tweeting.

Other celebs to have tried out the rather impractical trend recently include Lady Gaga, Fergie and Rihanna. (ANI)

Perry to bare all for magazine shoot?

Singer Katy Perry will reportedly bare all for English rock band Rolling Stones' new magazine shoot .

The pop star will appear on the cover of the latest issue of the publication wearing a blush two-piece lingerie and a sultry look and she dons only fishnet stockings for a beach shot to be used inside the magazine.

Perry admits she had to work hard to get in shape for the photoshoot and also for her upcoming world tour.

"I'm on a meal plan, which absolutely sucks. But, on Sundays, I get to have a cheat day where I go buck wild and eat In-N-Out Burger," contactmusic quoted her as saying.

"I'll work out, go to a vocal lesson, run through the entire set at rehearsals, go to dance rehearsal until 10 p.m. and then go home and sort through e-mails concerning the production. I feel like I'm training for the Olympics," she added.

Katy Perry’s father praises Russell Brand

Singer Katy Perry’s father has praised her new husband Russell Brand, saying he couldn’t have wished for a better son-in-law.

“I could not have wished for a better son-in-law in Russell. He makes my girl so happy. She’s so happy and he makes her light up. They’re going to be just fine,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Perry’s dad as saying.

The couple got engaged last December after a whirlwind three-month romance and tied the knot at the luxury Aman-i-Khas resort in Rajasthan, India, last month.