NOT since former MP Lembit Opik dated a Cheeky Woman have we seen the worlds of pop music and politics mix to hit the headlines.

However they did simply that this week, when singer Katy Perry and former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau have been noticed on a romantic ­dinner date.

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The unlikely pair have been pictured having fun with a low-key meal at Le Violon restaurant in Montreal on Monday, as Katy loved a short break from the ­Canadian leg of her world tour.

Eyewitnesses reported they “sipped cocktails and shared a number of dishes . . . together with one with lobster” earlier than heading to the kitchen to thank the chef.

So was it an off-the-cuff assembly of two unlikely associates?

Or the start of one thing far more amorous between a pair, who’ve each come out of high-profile relationships?

And with Justin being the son of two very free-loving ­mother and father, is he following of their frisky footsteps?

Cynics added a 3rd possibility: this was a publicity stunt to restore each events’ broken reputations.

However in response to one well-placed supply, Justin, 53, has been gunning for a date with 40-year-old Katy,

The supply, who used to work with the previous PM, advised The Solar: “Justin at all times enjoys good firm, and Katy is the type of lady that basically caught his consideration.”

Katy introduced her cut up from fiancé Orlando Bloom, 48, with whom she shares four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove, earlier this month.

Justin, in the meantime, cut up from his TV host spouse of 18 years, Sophie Gregoire, in 2023.

The supply continued: “He has been single for some time and has loved attending to know Katy.

“He likes her character. They click on very properly to date.

“They will see one another once more quickly.”

The supply added that Katy is “a breath of recent air” for the previous PM, who resigned in January after strain from inside his get together.

However Justin and Katy have a ­shocking quantity in frequent.

He’s the dynastic politician whose late father, Pierre Trudeau, was the Canadian PM on the time of his beginning.

She is the Californian pop princess who began singing gospel music earlier than shifting to pop.

Each reached the best rungs of their profession ladders however have not too long ago suffered falls from grace.

‘PUBLICITY-SEEKING SPECTACLE’

Katy has seen her star energy wane dramatically.

Final 12 months, her new album 143 was named the lowest-scoring file ever on the evaluation aggregation web site Metacritic, with critics calling it “boring” and “pop trash”.

Then, in April, she was one sixth of the closely criticised all-female, 11-minute Blue Origin house flight.

Katy mentioned: “We’re placing the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”

And an ass is precisely how she ended up trying, after the mission was mocked as “tone-deaf” and “self-indulgent”.

She didn’t do herself any favours by unveiling her tour’s setlist whereas suspended in zero gravity.

Her detractors have been vocal and, in response to insiders, it had a knock-on impact on her nine-year relationship with Orlando.

The actor was reportedly ­mortified by the publicity-seeking spectacle and it contributed to their demise.

The pair later introduced in a press release: “Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the previous many months to deal with co-parenting”.

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Since then, Orlando has been having fun with being single, attending Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s lavish Venice wedding ceremony whereas Katy was on tour in Australia, the place he reportedly flirted with feminine visitors.

He has additionally been pictured partying at one of many Oasis gigs in Manchester, and watching the boys’s singles closing at Wimbledon.

Till now, Katy had been specializing in her household and touring.

Stepping out with Justin this week despatched a message to her ex and the world that she is able to transfer on.

Justin has not been romantically linked to anybody since he cut up from presenter Sophie.

The pair had identified one another from childhood however began relationship in 2003 and ­married in 2005.

They share three ­kids — Xavier, 17, Ella-Grace, 16, and 11-year-old Hadrien.

Justin shocked followers when he introduced by way of Instagram: “Sophie and I want to share the truth that after many significant and ­troublesome conversations, we’ve made the choice to separate.

My mind was in love however not my physique

Barbra Streisand on Pierre Trudeau

“As at all times, we stay a detailed household with deep love and respect for one another and for all the pieces we constructed and can proceed to construct.”

After having adopted his father into politics, it appears proper that ­Justin now additionally honours his father’s fame as a girls’ man.

When Pierre Trudeau turned Prime Minister in 1968, he was labelled a “swinging younger bachelor”.

He dated Barbra Streisand the next 12 months, although the singer later admitted: “My mind was in love however not my physique”.

In 1971, Pierre married Justin’s mom, Margaret, who was 29 years his junior.

They’d three sons collectively — Justin, and two youthful brothers — however divorced in 1984.

But Pierre wasn’t the one one identified for his friskiness.

As their marriage crumbled, Margaret gained a fame to rival her husband’s.

In her 1982 ebook Penalties, she revealed she had had affairs with actors Jack Nicholson and Ryan O’Neal, and singer Lou Rawls.

She additionally famously partied with the Rolling Stones, prompting hypothesis she had slept with Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wooden on tour.

After their divorce, Pierre dated Superman actress Margot Kidder, earlier than having one other baby with lawyer Deborah Coyne.

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Rumours later linked him to actress Kim Cattrall and Bianca Jagger, although neither of these have been confirmed earlier than his loss of life in 2000.

Combining Margaret and Pierre’s sexual exploits, it’s no shock that their dashing son’s love life has been quite bland as compared, regardless of the unfounded homosexual rumours which have stalked his profession.

Possibly the apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree in spite of everything, and hooking up with a pop star is ­Justin’s subsequent step in following within the Trudeau household custom.