Katy Perry MTV Video Music Awards

Perry has had relationships with Matt Thiessen; Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy, whom she met in a recording studio in New York,breaking up in December 2008.; Relient K frontman Matt Thiessen, with whom she worked on her album Teenage Dream as well as Kelly Clarkson's 2009 album All I Ever Wanted;and British comedian Russell Brand.

Perry first met Russell Brand in the summer of 2008 when she filmed a cameo appearance for Brand's film Get Him to the Greek. Perry and Brand began dating after meeting again in September 2009 at the MTV Video Music Awards,where Brand, as host, remarked, "Katy Perry didn't win an award and she's staying at the same hotel as me, so she's gonna need a shoulder to cry on. So in a way, I'm the real winner tonight." The couple became engaged in December 2009 while vacationing in India. Perry stated that she plans to take dual British citizenship. "One of the first things I'll do is apply for dual citizenship. I'm not too sure if I have to take a test as I've not had time to look into it. But England is like my second home". Perry and Brand married on October 23, 2010 in a traditional Hindu ceremony near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan, India, where Brand had proposed.

In an interview with Rolling Stone she said, "I am sensitive to Russell taking the Lord's name in vain and to Lady Gaga putting a rosary in her mouth. I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.




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