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<\/p>\nThe English actor – whose grandfather was Northern Irish – parted ways with pop star Perry in June after nine years together.<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old revealed he wanted to embrace his Irish heritage and make getting around Europe easier post-Brexit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m getting my Irish passport. [My grandfather] was actually from Northern Ireland,\u201d he told former RT\u00c9 host Ryan Tubridy on Virgin Radio in the UK.<\/p>\n
Tubridy replied: \u201cAnd there\u2019s a lot of people from the UK who, after a certain political move, found themselves looking for a granny down the back of the couch.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pirates of the Caribbean star laughed and said: \u201cPart of it was actually just for work, like, when I was working in Prague for a while, [there was] a whole bunch of new paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bloom, who was born in Canterbury in Kent, added: \u201cAnd also, I love the fact that I\u2019ve got Irish heritage. That\u2019s all it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lord of the Rings star plays a retired Irish boxer in new psychological thriller The Cut, which is released this week.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time Bloom has embraced his Irish roots after he previously surprised pub goers by singing a folk song on St Patrick\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Bloom belted out Irish folk classic She Moved Through the Fair on the stage at The Alma pub in Windsor in 2023.<\/p>\n
The movie star announced his split from Perry (40) earlier this summer. The former couple have a four-year-old daughter, Daisy.<\/p>\n
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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. Photo: Invision\/AP<\/p>\n
They issued a statement saying they have been \u201cshifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is \u2013 and always will be \u2013 raising their daughter with love, stability, and mutual respect.\u201d<\/p>\n
The news came after Bloom sparked split rumours by attending billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019s luxury Italian wedding alone.<\/p>\n
Tension in the stars\u2019 relationship is believed to have been brewing since September last year when Perry released her latest album, 143. It was the lowest-scoring album on a review site in over a decade.<\/p>\n
Perry also faced backlash after blasting into space on one of Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin planes in April, with some describing the trip as \u201ctone-deaf,\u201d given the current cost-of-living and environmental crises.<\/p>\n
The singer subsequently confessed that she was feeling \u201cbattered and bruised\u201d by the online reaction \u2013 with Bloom apparently not pleased about the trip either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The English actor – whose grandfather was Northern Irish – parted ways with pop star Perry in June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[6504,18,117,19,17,9791,8169,954,26666],"class_list":{"0":"post-37840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jeff-bezos","14":"tag-katy-perry","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-ryan-tubridy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}