Katy Perry recently spilled details about her upcoming wedding to Orlando Bloom, revealing it's going to be, 'big, fun, and exotic.'
"There's still a plan but the location is challenging," she let slip on The Drew Barrymore Show last month.
"I love a big celebration. I am all about big, fun, exotic, great celebrations. So, hopefully, soon."
The Roar singer - who turns 38 today - has daughter Daisy, two, with longterm partner Orlando.
But before settling down with the Pirates of the Caribbean star, Katy also had a high-profile romance with British comedian Russell Brand.
Theirs was a whirlwind romance with a plot arch fit for a Hollywood movie.
She was the rising popstar, he was a comedian-turned actor who was just breaking into the US, and from their very first date, they were smitten.
"You're a mermaid and I'm drowning," Russell told the Teenage Dream singer as he drove her home in September 2009, before gifting her with a sensational black diamond necklace.
A besotted Russell popped the question just three months later in a tent at the foot of a mountain in India on New Year's Eve.
They tied the knot in a lavish Indian ceremony in October 2010 and got matching ‘Anuugacchati Pravaha’ tattoos, translated as 'go with the flow'.
But just months in, rumours of trouble in paradise began to swirl. Recovered drug addict Russell, then 36, and his 25-year-old wife were said to be clashing over everything from their lifestyles and when to have children through to his stand up jokes.
What's more, her mammoth 122-date California Dreams tour kept her away from home and the accompanying Part Of Me documentary showed Katy repeatedly curled up crying in her dressing room after yet another long-distance row with her husband.
And a source told The Mirror at the time they quickly realised they had 'nothing in common'.
"Russell left his party lifestyle behind a long time ago because it nearly killed him. All he wanted to do is stay at home, do his yoga, keep his demons away and have a family with Katy," the source said.
"After the high of the wedding, reality kicked in. Katy was away all the time. Russell couldn't handle it."
Another problem, according to Katy, was that Russell wanted to start a family but she wanted to wait.
“[Russell] really wanted me to have children, and I knew I wasn't ready," she told Marie Claire.
Even comedian David Badiel - who is good friends with Russell and attended their wedding - said the warning signs were there before they even got hitched.
He once recalled: “I was there [at the wedding]... Russell did tell me that they had a big row the night before they got married.
"I did think when he said that, of asking, 'Are you sure?' but I didn't say that. Perhaps I should have done."
For Katy's part, she was apparently furious when she went to surprise her husband at a stand up gig only to find him making jokes about their marriage.
Furthermore, she claimed the presenter and actor struggled with her success and power.
"At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they're like, I can't handle the equalness," she later told Vogue.
Twice they are said to have drafted statements announcing plans to take time apart, only to withdraw them at the last minute. But things finally came to a head when Katy apparently gave Russell her wedding ring back after a huge row before Christmas.
A source told The Mirror that Russell responded by flying back to London with his mum Barbara while Katy flew to Hawaii with friends and turned her phone off.
Katy had only meant to call his bluff, sources claimed, but instead Russell blindsided her by filing for divorce and allegedly informing her by text on New Year's Eve.
"Katy was surprised that Russell didn't come running back but she had met her match. They are both strong-willed people and there has been a lot of game-playing going on," the insider continued.
Despite the writing being on the wall, Katy was devastated, and reportedly responded by spitefully taunting vegan Russell with a picture of a half-eaten Big Mac.
"I was in bed for about two weeks. I was pretty f**ked, yes. It hurt a lot," she told the Sunday Times in 2013, admitting that she 'got a good knock'.
She continued: "Unfortunately, although I had the outward self-identity, I didn't have the inner kind, I hadn't built that up. My self-worth was in someone else's hands which is never a good idea, because it can be taken from you at any time. And it was, and it was shattered."
Meanwhile, Russell blamed her pop career for the split, blasting: “I’m associated with the very thing I detest: vapid vacuous, plastic, constructed, mindless celebrity.”
But there was no going back. Their divorce was made official, with Katy famously signing her papers with a heart and a smiley face.
In the years that have come since, Russell - who now has two children with his yoga teacher wife Laura Gallacher - has had nothing but nice things to say about his ex.
And when Katy announced her pregnancy with fiancé Orlando Bloom, Russell shared a video about overcoming heartbreak.
'I have come away from that experience and I still feel very warm towards her," he said in 2017.
"When I hear about her or see her, I think 'Ah, there's that person, that person in the world.'"
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