{"id":36615,"date":"2025-07-31T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36615\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:17:09","slug":"albertan-katy-perry-superfan-basks-in-small-town-fame-puts-medicine-hat-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36615\/","title":{"rendered":"Albertan Katy Perry superfan basks in \u2018small town\u2019 fame, puts Medicine Hat on the map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">A Katy Perry superfan is basking in newfound fame after a video of him meeting the pop star garnered nearly a million views online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Perry, who is in Canada performing several shows on her Lifetimes Tour, invited concertgoer Braiden Palumbo on stage during a stop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/vancouver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/vancouver\/\">Vancouver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Palumbo travelled all the way from Redcliff, Alta., to attend the show. Now, his neighbours are recognizing him from the cute interaction, which somewhat schooled Perry on small-town Prairie life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cPeople come into the gas bar all the time and they don\u2019t even buy anything, they just want to take a picture with me,\u201d he said on Tuesday. \u201cGrowing up in a small town, only the people in the small town know who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In the video, Palumbo tells Perry he is from Medicine Hat, which is a small city in southeastern Alberta that\u2019s very close to his hometown. The animated pop star looks bewildered and plays to the cheering crowd, saying she needs \u201cto study better geography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cYour hats are filled with medicine? Well you know for us Americans you are our medicine hats, we love it,\u201d she says jokingly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">From there, Perry was in for another lesson when the 20-year-old reveals he works at a Co-op gas bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry but you guys are way advanced, what is a Co-op gas bar?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">When the fan explains it is just a gas station, Perry goes on to say \u201cit sounds really fancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Perry, who also made news this week after dining out with former prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/justin-trudeau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/justin-trudeau\/\">Justin Trudeau<\/a> sparking romance rumours, is known for interacting with fans during her extravagant performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/article-justin-trudeau-katy-perry-montreal-dinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International relations? Publicity stunt? Or true love? Laying odds on the Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry dating rumours<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Palumbo said he is grateful to have had that shared moment with Perry, and to put a small town on the map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI am a huge Katy Perry fan for as long as I can remember,\u201d Palumbo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">When Perry began calling people on stage, Palumbo didn\u2019t think he would be one of them. That was, until she started walking towards audience members who were further back in the section he was in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI knew that that was my moment to shine,\u201d he recalls. He said all he could think of doing to get her attention was raise his arms and scream will full force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI was just screaming, \u2019Pick me, Pick me!\u2019 You need to notice me,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The video was originally shared by @vancouver.alex on TikTok and has garnered over 750,000 views since being posted four days ago, leaving fans desperately questioning if Perry will visit Medicine Hat in future tours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Palumbo has also since changed his profile picture on Instagram to a selfie of him with Perry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Katy Perry superfan is basking in newfound fame after a video of him meeting the pop star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,341,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-36615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-music","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}