{"id":742820,"date":"2026-06-17T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742820\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:37:23","slug":"senator-ted-cruz-says-katy-perrys-way-out-of-justin-trudeaus-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742820\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Ted Cruz Says Katy Perry&#8217;s Way Out of Justin Trudeau&#8217;s League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8614919d8bc44d71bcf316b4fc5b15ca_md.png\" alt=\"061626_ted_cruz_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ted-cruz\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz<\/a> says former Canadian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/justin-trudeau\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>&#8216;s way out of his league when it comes to dating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/katy-perry\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katy Perry<\/a> &#8230; and he says it takes one to know one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/charlie-cotton\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie<\/a> got the Senator from Texas on Capitol Hill Tuesday and asked about the romance between Canada&#8217;s former top dog and the Queen of Camp &#8230; and you gotta hear Ted roar about the coupling.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260616_b764f2c296d44f6dbe62ea505fa224db\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:99d0d1d5-c877-4487-844c-47e16bd88ea4\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b764f2c296d44f6dbe62ea505fa224db_md.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ted invokes an old school phrase &#8212; &#8220;outkicking your coverage&#8221; &#8212; to describe the disparity in this pairing &#8230; before noting he&#8217;s outkicking his coverage in his marriage to Heidi Cruz.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As for what Justin and Katy&#8217;s relationship might mean for relations between the U.S. and our neighbors to the north &#8230; well, Ted&#8217;s got another banger of an answer.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260616_0808167a5f7b4f4da7696306b2ff848e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:99d0d1d5-c877-4487-844c-47e16bd88ea4\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0808167a5f7b4f4da7696306b2ff848e_md.jpg\" alt=\"ted and heidi cruz getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Justin and Katy started dating last summer, shortly after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/03\/katy-perry-orlando-bloom-reps-break-silence-split\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">split<\/a> from longtime partner and baby daddy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/orlando-bloom\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Bloom<\/a>. Justin and his estranged wife, Sophie Gr\u00e9goire, have been legally separated since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Justin and Katy are still going strong &#8230; because photogs recently caught them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/15\/katy-perry-justin-trudeau-make-out\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">packing on the PDA<\/a> in Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line &#8230; Justin was a dark horse candidate to be Katy&#8217;s next BF &#8230; and Ted can only tip his cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content Senator Ted Cruz says former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8216;s way out of his league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-742820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742820","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=742820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}