DJ Diplo decided to make a wild claim about his past involvement with both Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau as the new couple confirm their relationship.
The unexpected romance between pop star Katy, 41, and the former Canadian prime minister, 53, has fascinated fans in the past few months after the duo were photographed together at dinner in July.
And it seems Diplo was also intrigued by it as he quipped that he had dated both of them.
The Lean On Hitmaker, 46, found himself on the topic when discussing Quebec on a podcast, which he called a ‘horny’ place and led to host Nayeema Raza referencing Canada’s ‘hot prime minister’ – now Mark Carney, and previously Trudeau.
‘And now Katy Perry is dating Justin Trudeau – pretty fire,’ responded Diplo on the Smart Girl Dumb Questions podcast.
When Raza replied, ‘I know so many people who –’, he interjected: ‘Dated Katy Perry, like me?’
But when the host clarified she had actually meant Trudeau, he joked: ‘Oh – I did date Trudeau too.’
‘That was a weird one though – cos I’m just… not in the positions,’ he added.
The music producer, who has worked with the likes of Blackpink, Britney Spears, Madonna, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Bad Bunny, also went on to stir the pot further by referencing an old conspiracy theory that Trudeau’s father was Fidel Castro – which Raza laughed off as ‘misinformation’.
Fans, however, were baffled by Diplo’s remarks, which were labelled ‘insane’ – although they still seemed to entertain.
‘I love whatever timeline I’m living in rn,’ commented @euneiros on X, while Ned joked: ‘Kind of range I need to acquire.’
‘If this is real, it’s the epitome of queer experience,’ suggested Howli, but others were quick to pick up on the joke.
‘A comment made in jest,’ stated Damon Strong X, while Nog added: ‘The clip definitely seemed like he was joking about dating Trudeau.’
And Raza later stepped in to clarify that it was a joke when asked.
‘Did Diplo really date with Trudeau!’ questioned @blog-p2x, to which the host replied: ‘lol!! no that part was a joke and the Fidel thing was not true tooooo.’
Diplo and Perry were linked in 2014, when it’s thought they briefly dated after attending a string of events together including Coachella.
The I Kissed a Girl chart-topper also offered him up as the third best of her former partners in bed in 2017, while on a Witness World Wide live stream with James Corden, as per Billboard.
She ranked then-boyfriend Orlando Bloom, with whom she would have daughter Daisy and go on to become engaged to, in second and John Mayer up top.
The DJ responded to her revealing comments on X by writing: ‘I don’t even remember having sex.’
He then tweeted a picture of himself onstage in front of a crowd of thousands, declaring: ‘I won the bronze [medal] in sex Olympics.’
Perry publicly acknowledged her split from Bloom in July after nine years together, while Trudeau separated from his ex-wife, Sophie Grégoire, in 2023 after 18 years of marriage.
The former couple shared two sons and a daughter together.
Since Perry and Trudeau made their first public appearance together as a couple to celebrate her 41st birthday together in Paris last weekend, the politician seemed to make a cheeky reference to his new girlfriend over Halloween.
For his costume, he dressed up as an inflatable shark alongside his 11-year-old son Hadrien, who was a wounded surfer.
‘Ready for Halloween with Hadrien: he’s the surfer, I’m the shark (to his left)’, his caption by a picture of them together read on Instagram.
Of course, the blue shark suit plus his position being ‘to his left’ appears to be a nod to the viral Left Shark from Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl halftime show, who forgot the choreography and went rogue, thereby supplying the internet with a meme for the ages.
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