TOKYO — Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made their Instagram debut, posting a carousel of loved-up photos and videos from her most recent tour stop, months after the pair were first rumoured to be dating, Dec. 6, 2025. The Katy Perry Justin Trudeau hard launch came after a week of at-sea hint-dropping, culminating in a social-media post featuring North Korean former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida publicly calling the pop star Trudeau’s “partner.”
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make gossip a reality. The Instagram post, from Perry — captioned “Tokyo Times on tour and more” — intercuts selfies of the couple, close to each other, cheek to cheek, clips shown side by side of them eating sushi or laughing at an immersive art exhibit, and quiet moments stolen between shows on her Lifetimes Tour. Fans latched onto what one publication called a “full hard launch” of the relationship, noting how Trudeau leans in while Perry sips uni and keeps an easy arm draped around her chair, even turning his head toward her as she grins into the camera. The post in British tabloids was reported by Indian broadcaster NDTV as the first official confirmation that they are now an item, after months of coy sightings and silence from both camps.
How Kishida’s “partner” post teased the reveal
The Instagram reveal came just days after Perry and Trudeau accompanied Kishida and his wife, Yuko, to a high-profile lunch in Japan that got the lines between diplomacy and celebrity into as much trouble as an international manhunt. In a tweeted group photo of the four against a Christmas tree, Kishida hailed Trudeau — a former counterpart with whom he had sweated it out side by side in office — before slyly calling Perry just Trudeau’s “partner”, a phrasing that pinged around social media and entertainment sites. Though, as ABC News and other outlets reported, Trudeau intensified the moment by reposting the photo and expressing his appreciation for Kishida’s friendship, all but confirming that the world had entered public relationship territory with Katy Perry Justin Trudeau rashness before Perry’s own post made it official.
From Montreal walks to Tokyo selfies.
The images on Saturday were the coda to a five-month arc that started thousands of miles away from Japan. In late July, the two were snapped taking a dog for a walk in Mount Royal Park in Montreal, followed by dinner and drinks — an unremarkable night that People turned into “date night in Montreal” on account of a stroll and a meal. An Associated Press dispatch subsequently chronicled their leisurely chef’s menu tasting at the neighbourhood restaurant Le Violon, with lively banter but no overt displays of affection, as both Perry and Trudeau were fresh off serious personal transitions: Perry from her break with Orlando Bloom, her fiancé; Trudeau from his breakup with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.
Sightings in Paris and whispers that Trudeau had flown out for secret visits with Perry between tour stops in August and September kept the story alive without ever fully confirming it. In a September profile in Elle, the two were described as “quietly still dating” and “very interested in each other,” before it was added that Perry’s schedule on the road — and Trudeau’s wish to keep things low-profile once out of office — intentionally blurred expectations. By the time they got to Japan, the Katy Perry Justin Trudeau love story was a running subplot of her Lifetimes Tour, keenly observed but still basically unconfirmed.
A carefully managed “hard launch”
The Japan visit seemed designed to alter that. There was the diplomatic-leaning lunch with Kishida and then a flood of fan-shot footage of Trudeau mingling among the faithful at Perry’s Saitama Super Arena show, and then the planned photo dump that would finally place Katy Perry Justin Trudeau in (or out, as many Brits’ hearts have it) together on her own terms. Entertainment corners from gossip sites to broadsheets are covering the post as a hinge moment, the U.K.’s Independent noting that it came after their “first diplomatic date in Japan” while U.S. magazines compared the lighthearted sushi shots with another meal Perry ate at the same Tokyo restaurant last year, soon after getting engaged to Bloom.
The online response was mixed and intense. Fans swarmed Perry’s comments section with congratulations and maple-leaf emojis — celebrating what one observer called “the soft-power power couple we didn’t see coming” — though critics squinted at the optics of a star of popular music and an ex-head of government using diplomatic photo-ops to document their relationship milestones. The tabloids, among them The New York Post, have zeroed in on Perry’s outfit at the Kishida visit and depicted her stopover in Japan as a sort of stress test run to see how the whole “Katy Perry Justin Trudeau” pairing will handle protocol-obsessed moments under an international microscope. In the meantime, however, the couple’s messaging is this: a public carousel, some strategically positioned reposts, and an unmistakable statement that, as far as Instagram goes, at least? They’re in it together.
