She kissed a boy – and he liked it.

Wellington’s Mason Kelliher, 12, says he won’t let anybody touch that side of his face since Katy Perry’s kiss.

Twelve-year-old Mason Kelliher was plucked from the thousands who attended Katy Perry’s Wellington gig on Tuesday night to go on stage with the pop star – and moments later was rewarded with a kiss.

“She grabbed my hand and pulled me up to the front and kissed me on the cheek. All my friends, the guys, didn’t believe me at first until my friends who were there told them it was me, and they were really jealous and stuff.”

It was never the way Mason, a Wellington College pupil, had planned it. He was so overwhelmed by the fact he had caught Perry’s attention that he couldn’t really say if she was a good kisser.

“I don’t know, I can’t really remember because it was so exciting and stuff, but … it was pretty good.”

Her hand was a bit sweaty but she smelled like candy floss, he said. Unfortunately, she left no evidence of cherry chapstick on his face. “I went home and looked, but there was nothing. But I’m not letting people touch that side of my face.”

Mason was not the only boy to end up as part of Perry’s show. Dominion Post reviewer Simon Sweetman said at one point, Perry was wondering aloud if there were any hot boys in the crowd, and asked if anyone would take their shirt off.

A very keen young man had whipped his off within seconds, was pulled up on stage and allowed to kiss Perry, he said. “I don’t think she even finished the word `T-shirt’ when it landed on the stage. He was very eager.”

Another lucky fan Jimi Russell, was also invited on to the stage and took his shirt off for Katy Perry! Click here to view a picture of the moment.

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Check out the upcoming Katy Perry cover shoot for June’s issue of ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine. She was photographed by Annie Leibovitz and we can’t wait till this awesome photoshoot comes out! Click the banner to view the HQ cover and make sure to read a part of the cover story..

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“My career is like an artichoke,” Katy Perry tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Lisa Robinson. “People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don’t even know that there’s something magical hidden at the base of it. There’s a whole other side [of me] that people didn’t know existed.”

Perry, who tells Robinson that she wants her ashes shot out over the Santa Barbara coast in a firework, reveals that one side of her she has definitively left behind is her born-again upbringing. “I didn’t have a childhood,” she says, adding that her mother never read her any books except the Bible, and that she wasn’t allowed to say “deviled eggs” or “Dirt Devil.” Perry wasn’t even allowed to listen to secular music and relied on friends to sneak her CDs. “Growing up, seeing Planned Parenthood, it was considered like the abortion clinic,” she tells Robinson. “I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there…. I didn’t know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn’t have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control.”

“I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up,” Perry says of her evangelical-minister parents. “Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. They’re excited about [my success]. They’re happy that things are going well for their three children and that they’re not on drugs. Or in prison.” Perry’s mother confirms that she is proud of her daughter’s success, telling Robinson, “The Lord told us when I was pregnant with her that she would do this.”

“I come from a very non-accepting family, but I’m very accepting,” Perry says of her religious beliefs as an adult. “Russell is into Hinduism, and I’m not [really] involved in it. He meditates in the morning and the evening; I’m starting to do it more because it really centers me. [But] I just let him be him, and he lets me be me.” Perry says she didn’t stick with the mold growing up. “I have always been the kid who’s asked ‘Why?’ In my faith, you’re just supposed to have faith. But I was always like…why?” she says. “At this point, I’m just kind of a drifter. I’m open to possibility…. My sponge is so big and wide and I’m soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded. Just being around different cultures and people and their opinions and perspectives. Just looking into the sky.”

Of her marriage to Russell Brand, Perry says that there is “never a dull moment” and that Brand has “never lied to me once. I trust him; there’s just a level of trust that we’ve built up.” When asked about the infamous photo Brand tweeted of her without makeup in the middle of the night, Perry laughs it off. “We were just messing around,” she says, “I didn’t really care. I mean, when I go to rehearsals I look like that. I’m every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am…. You don’t have to wake up looking like, you know, Gisele.”

“The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage,” Perry explains of her need for privacy in her relationship with Brand. “That’s why we didn’t sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.” Why not take the money and give it to charity? Robinson asks. “Well, I can always do that later for something else; maybe if I have a child,” Perry says. “But I’ve seen too much of it with other people—it’s the wrong kind of attention. It detracts from the reason why you exist. We wanted that moment to ourselves.”

After ultimately showing a clip of her wedding video at the Grammys, Perry tells Robinson she did it “because I felt the moment was right and not forced. Russell and I had time to savor our moment privately first and then share it with people when we were ready, and not for a paycheck. I loved the idea, because I thought it was beautiful and artistically accompanied the song I wrote for him. Plus, it was Valentine’s eve!”

Perry talks to Robinson about the controversy surrounding her early hit “I Kissed a Girl,” saying she thinks the song worked because “finally someone was singing about something that existed. But it really was [meant to be] fun; there was no agenda.” Perry admits she didn’t discuss it honestly at first because a couple of “sleazy” male journalists made her uncomfortable. “So I said no, I hadn’t experienced it, even though I had, because I didn’t like where the guys were taking the interviews.”

Perry is adamant that, regardless of what else is going on in her life, her music should be her main draw to her fans: “I don’t care what people say about my relationship; I don’t care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I’m getting incredible feedback from my music.” But despite her immense fame, Perry never forgets what it took to get to where she is. “I don’t take anything for granted,” she says. “There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them. I remember what it’s like to be someone who’s always trying to get there—sending out tons of e-mails … trying to connect with some person who could connect me with some other person. And I wouldn’t be working at this pace now if I didn’t truly know that fame is fleeting.”

“If the core, the honesty, my story, isn’t working, then all those bells and whistles aren’t going to work, either,” Perry says of staying focused on her music. “Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness. But my husband always reminds me to keep the core intact…. I just think I have to appreciate every day, every opportunity, work hard, and continue to evolve as an artist. I already know my future evolution, where I’m going to go. I mean, I’m touring in fucking Indonesia, for crying out loud.”

The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and L.A. on Thursday, May 5 and nationally and on the iPad on Tuesday, May 10.

Katy Perry has just reached 7 million followers on network sensation Twitter. Congratulations to her for reaching this incredible mark! Most of them are surely KatyCats.

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KATY Perry is calling the shots. The American pop star says she’s all about work-life balance, building her music around her marriage. She has stretched her Californian Dreams World Tour out over almost a year, ensuring she makes time for new husband, comedian Russell Brand.

Perry is two months into the tour, with rave reviews for her European shows.

And she’s set to kick off the Australian leg at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Thursday (April 28), followed by dates in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Newcastle.

“You definitely have to learn how to pace yourself,” Perry tells Insider. “I’ve routed it for me so that I can have a husband as well, which is really nice.

“I get three days off every now and then or every while I get four days off and I’ll just be able to re-energise myself and make it an experience that I’ll never forget, instead of like a grind.”.

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Find out how Katy Perry’s stunning make-up looks were created for her new video E.T. from her make-up artist Kabuki

Her make-up artist for the shoot Kabuki – artistic director of myface.cosmetics – shares the inspiration behind Katy’s three dramatic transformations exclusively with InStyle:

“It was filled with all types of futuristic references and ambitious special effects. I’d been a consultant on the film Tron : Legacy, so I was a little familiar with CGI and the like.

“We decided on three looks: an alien look, a fawn look and a tribal look. There were two shooting days and I certainly had my work cut out for me. We went over the costumes to match up the make-up looks with Katy’s outfits, to make sure that it all worked…

“One of my biggest worries was: is a big star like Katy Perry going to sit still for hours and hours in a make-up chair and let me go a little crazy with her face? No need to worry. Katy is quite a trooper and a delight to work with. She understood the time constraints and couldn’t have been more helpful; we were really working together to get this done and I appreciated her trust.”

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People can’t stop following our princess on Twitter! Katy has just reached 6 million followers and entered to the top 8 as the most followed celebrity on twitter network!

Congratulations to her! More 6 million are still to come, Katy! .

If you doesn’t follow her yet, then follow now by clicking here. By the way we are about to reach 18,000 followers, help us!

GHD, the haircare products manufacturer, is expected to unveil US pop singer Katy Perry as the face of the brand.

Next month GHD will roll out an ad campaign to promote the launch of its latest range of hair-straighteners, and is in final negotiations about Perry fronting the ads.

Also under discussion is the possibility of GHD becoming a second-tier sponsor of the I Kissed A Girl singer’s UK tour, which begins next month.

A TV campaign is being devised by RKCR/Y&R, with below-the-line activity by GyroHSR. The latter was recently appointed to the brand’s digital and direct marketing account.

GHD confirmed it is in talks over a tour sponsorship, but declined to comment on Perry becoming a brand ambassador.

Last month, jewellery company Thomas Sabo signed up Perry to appear in print ads for its spring/summer collection.

Source: Marketing

Before Katy Perry became a worldwide phenomenon, the onetime Christian rocker was blond, broke, and written off by her record company. Then she unleashed two of the most infectious pop anthems of the decade; collected a rabid fan base that includes her new husband, Russel Brand; and rode her own fireworks to mega-stardom. April Long goes along for the ride.

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On life before she became a successful artist and the ultimatium she gave herself: “I had two cars repossessed, and I was writing bad checks, but I gave myself a timeline. I thought, Okay, if I don’t make it by 25, I’m just going to get married and pop out some babies and do some crafts.”

On her down-to-earth personality: “It’s important to be relatable and normal. And I think that what helps with that, for me, is that I had the rug pulled out from underneath my feet so many times. It was like, ‘Listen up, bitch, you’re not going to get served this on a silver platter—you’ve got to work for it!’ I don’t feel like I can act like an entitled bitch yet! I still have so much to prove.”

Joe Zee interviews Katy Perry on the set of Elle’s March photo shoot in an exclusive Behind the Shoot video:

On whether she’s had any reservations about presenting a provocative image: “We’re past that. I’m a sexy girl, so what? I never claimed I was a nun!”

On her much talked about figure: “I was shaped like a square at one time. I was! I’m generally around 130 pounds, which is totally fine for me. But when I was a kid, I was the same height and weighed more like 145. And I had enormous boobs that I didn’t know what to do with, so I wore minimizers, which were not cute. Those thick-ass straps! I got made fun of for the over-the-shoulder boulder holder…and all I wanted was to look like Kate Moss. Little did I know…that these things would come in handy someday.”

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Katy is featured on this week’s festive December issue of Grazia magazine and we have finally added 2 gorgeous outtakes of the photoshoot and some scans previews to our gallery so make sure you view them now!

EXCLUSIVE! As her first Christmas as Mrs Brand approaches, Katy Perry talks to Grazia about music, married life and making headlines.

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For most women, getting married to the man of their dreams would be enough to make a pretty good year. But when you’re a larger-than-life pop diva like Katy Perry, exchanging rings with comedic beau Russell Brand is just one of the bold headlines in a 365-day whirlwind that also included a successful tour and a trio of inescapable radio smashes that permanently smacked down any fears of a sophomore slump.

(They’re more than just pretty faces, but you can still check out photos of our Men and Women of 2010!)

After meeting at the 2009 VMAs, Perry and Brand started off 2010 with a bang by announcing their engagement, and frankly, things just got better and better for her from there.

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