Lorraine Kelly has admitted that she’s “fuming” over the recent Blue Origin rocket flight in a rant on GMB, in which she urged Katy Perry to “just shut up”. Katy, 40, was one of the six women to fly in the Blue Origin NS-31 from Texas earlier this month, with the journey sponsored by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space exploration company.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain to tease her upcoming show, Lorraine revealed that she’ll be chatting to comedian Joe Lycett about heading into space. GMB hosts Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid then asked whether it would be like the Blue Origin flight, at which point Lorraine responded: “Don’t get me started about that. I’m fuming. I’m fuming.”
When asked why she felt so strongly about the rocket launch, Lorraine said: “Because they cannot call themselves astronauts. How can they call themselves astronauts when they were up on a jolly for 11 minutes. And there already has been an all-women crew up in space proper – proper astronauts. It was ridiculous.
“That woman with her daisy. Shut up. Just shut up. Go away and leave me alone,” she added, referring to passenger Katy Perry.
A stunned Susanna replied: “I’m looking forward to your next interview with Katy Perry!”
Last week, it was reported that Katy Perry regretted making “a public spectacle” out of going to space, with a source revealing: “Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it.”
A source told the Mail Online that she now regrets “kissing the ground” after the flight and her “close-up camera moments” inside the capsule – which saw her hold a daisy up to the camera, promote the setlist for her upcoming tour and singing the lyrics to What a Wonderful World while suspended in microgravity.
Katy revealed that she brought the daisy into space as a “beautiful tribute” to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, whom she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
It came after Katy had previously told the press that the flight was “all for the benefit of Earth” just moments after departing the rocket. She said: “It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging. It’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it.”
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