Justin Trudeau, Katy Perry’s romance actually makes sense

Let's call it a PDF. A Post Divorce Flex. A celebrity marriage breaks down, one partner moves out, lawyers are called in, stuff and real estate gets divided, co-parenting strategies are mapped out and access to dogs agreed on.

- Simon Mills, The Independent

From then on, it’s a race to see who can date the hottest, most glamorous and famous person first. A new younger and shinier partner, they can be seen out and about with — essentially flexing their newfound freedom with a happy confidence that says, “I've moved-on!” But as the former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau makes it official with pop star Katy Perry by holding hands after a date at the Crazy Horse Cabaret in Paris for her birthday, you have to ask, who's flexing who exactly?

Is it multi-platinum selling, “Queen of Camp” hitmaker Katy, 41, engaged to actor Orlando Bloom for five years, mother of his daughter Daisy Dove Bloom and said to be worth around half a billion dollars (American $ not Canadian, obvs) who is showing off Justin T? “Look at me! I used to be engaged to Legolas from fictional Middle Earth, now I'm dating a man who was a real world leader!” Or is it the recently separated, now ex-Canadian prime minister Trudeau, married for 18 years to Sophie Grégoire, father of three children, who is flexing Katy like smooth maple syrup in his tight black T-shirt? “I was in a safe but dull, grownup marriage to a First Lady, now I'm walking out with a hot California pop star girl...!”