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Sareen Habeshianand Christal Hayes,Los Angeles
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Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded to disapproval for skipping his country's archetypal World Cup lucifer to be a USA game, wherever his girlfriend, popular superstar Katy Perry, performed.
"Sometimes supportive fellow duties call. But you cognize who I'm rooting for to instrumentality the Cup," helium posted connected societal media, adding a Canadian emblem emoji.
The opening matches successful Toronto and Los Angeles took spot hours apart.
Cameras caught Perry moving disconnected signifier to greet the erstwhile Canadian person with a kiss. Throughout the game, the brace were shown successful televised clips sipping beers and canoodling successful the stands. But online, immoderate Canadians were not pleased.
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Katy Perry performs astatine World Cup opening ceremony
One X idiosyncratic from Toronto called it a "a slap successful the look of this country. Distasteful doesn't statesman to screen it".
Others called Trudeau a "traitor" and a "fraud" arsenic clips began to spell viral connected societal media.
The erstwhile PM missed Canada's 1-1 gully against Bosnia and Herzegovina successful Toronto, which started astatine 15:00pm EDT connected Friday.
Instead, helium watched the USA bushed Paraguay 4-1 successful Los Angeles, with footwear disconnected astatine 21:00 EDT.
Perry helped unfastened the archetypal World Cup crippled successful the US with a rendition of the little-known opus Wonder from her 2024 medium 143.
She had teased deciding against performing 1 of the hits successful her alternatively lengthy catalogue of chart-toppers – from California Girls and Teenage Dream to Firework and ET - earlier the performance, telling People Magazine that she chose the comparatively chartless ballad due to the fact that "it's precise fitting for the ceremonial opus that I get to sing".
Trudeau and Perry person been publically linked since July 2025. They officially confirmed their narration with an Instagram station successful December.
Trudeau was joined for 18 years to TV big Sophie Grégoire, but they announced their divided successful 2023. They person 3 children. Perry was joined to English comedian Russell Brand from 2010-12.
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