Katy Perry has succeeded where the BBC failed. The pop singer has managed to persuade her husband, the comedian Russell Brand, to tone down his act.
"Russell has made very blasphemous jokes in the past, but he's making fewer all the time because he knows that I am very sensitive about this subject," says Perry, whose parents were pastors.
"You can be frivolous and fun without needing to get involved in that. And I don't know why that only happens to the Christian religion. I don't see people simulating sex with statues of Buddha, for example."
Brand, 35, was suspended by the BBC after he and Jonathan Ross left obscene messages on the answerphone of Andrew Sachs, 80, the star of Fawlty Towers. The next year, Brand declared that he would never tone down his material. "I ain't afraid, I don't give a ––––," he said. "I will not lose my edge."
Perry, 26, whose hits include I Kissed a Girl and Hot n Cold, says: "For me, spirituality is something very important and I don't like it when people take it lightly. At times, I don't understand why there are artists who play that card, like when Madonna gets up on a cross to sing."
It's true though.
But I know the haters will come at her very hard with this comment but the source is...
I respect her views but still being the girl who started out her career wit a song called I Kissed A Girl she needs to stop acting like she is some kind of religious preacher.
No one cares what comes out of Katy's mouth these days. She likes to think that what she says goes but its all just her own opinion. She is yet to realize that.
Well she didn't diss her, fortunately for her because she is really NOT in the position to do so. She just said she doesn't understand why Madge does it.
She didn't even diss Madonna. Just used her as an example in what she was saying.
She probably didn't need to mention her though. She could have said, "Like then artists get up on a cross to sing." But it's not bad that she did, she was only using her as an example. No diss.
Just used her as an example in what she was saying.
