The online gambling community is placing bets on Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry
You know you can check their birth charts for free, right?
If you were anywhere near a television or smartphone screen last weekend, you likely saw the news: our long national nightmare—of wondering whether Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry are official—is over. They are!
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Perry shared a series of photos of the couple on her Instagram, in a carousel of images from the Tokyo leg of her Lifetimes tour. The lovebirds are shown cheek-to-cheek in nature, snacking on sea urchin and enjoying an immersive digital art museum called TeamLab Planets.
The online gambling overlords were not going to let this moment pass them by. One company, called BetOnline, came up with a series of prop bets about the pop star and former prime minister’s much-anticipated hard launch.
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Will Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau get engaged in 2026? Reasonable question. The company put Yes at +200 and No at -300.
As for whether they’ll get married in 2026, they have Yes at +800 and No at -3000.
Will they break up in 2026? We don’t even want to think about it, but the company has Yes at +175 and No at-250.
And the question on all of our minds: Will Katy Perry sing “O Canada” at the 2026 Grey Cup? According to BetOnline, Yes at +250 and No at -400.
If you’re trying to win big on whether they’ll spend the holidays together—not that we suggest you gamble, actually please don’t, unless you’re wagering something under $45 and delicious, like panettone or a protein latte—fear not, we’ve thought this one through.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
