Pete Davidson has had a rough couple of months. Thanks to his relationship with reality star and business mogul Kim Kardashian, he’s been on the receiving end of an onslaught of public attacks on social media from her estranged husband, Kanye West.
While he may have clapped back this week when he told the rapper he was “in bed with your wife” and to “stop being a little internet bitch boy”, it appears Davidson has decided to go on a well deserved holiday to get away from it all. His chosen destination? Space.
The SNL comedian will officially be the third celebrity to join a flight on Jeff Bezos’ space travel venture, Blue Origin, following William Shatner last October and Michael Strahan in December. The 10-minute journey, scheduled for March 23, promises three minutes of weightlessness as the ship hovers roughly 66 miles above Earth, before parachuting and landing in the desert of West Texas. Davidson will be joined by CEO and investor Marty Allen, Sharon and Marc Hagle, teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen, and George Nield, a former NASA manger.
Davidson first reportedly met Bezos with his Skims founder girlfriend Kardashian back in January when they visited Amazon founder’s LA compound for dinner. Apparently the two of them got on well, with rumours circulating of a potential trip together ever since.
While the Staten Island-raised SNL comedian and billionaire tech giant appear to have little in common - at least not enough to warrant them literally leaving the planet together - they do however share connected “friendly” rivals.
Since their first meeting in 2004, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Blue Moon founder Bezos have traded places as the world’s richest person, sparred over their respective space ambitions and made some hilariously petty public digs at one another. "Putting the word ‘Blue’ on a ball is questionable branding," Musk tweeted in 2019 about Bezos’ Blue Origin’s concept for a lunar-landing vehicle, called Blue Moon, before mocking up a screenshot of a New York Times article that changed the name from “Blue Moon” to “Blue Balls”.
While there’s no word on the relationship between Davidson and Musk, the Tesla founder is a longtime friend of Ye (as Kardashian’s ex is now legally known). In fact, it was only last month that the rapper posted a now-deleted photo of the two at his Donda 2 listening party with the caption “Ye x Elon” accompanied with several rocket ship emojis. Before that, West was spotted visiting Musk at SpaceX last November, where he shared his aspirations of making a trip to space.
Well, unfortunately for Ye, it seems Davidson and Bezos have beaten them both to it.
