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Orlando Bloom shows off his heli-snowboarding skills after his fiancée Katy Perry admitted to regretting her Blue Origin space flight amid criticism

Orlando Bloom shows off his heli-snowboarding skills after his fiancée Katy Perry admitted to regretting her Blue Origin space flight amid criticism

Orlando Bloom took to Instagram on Monday to show off his snowboarding skills whilst heli-snowboarding in Canada over the Easter weekend. 

The 48-year-old actor shared a video of himself alongside TV producer Mark Burnett, 64, and Mark’s two children, James and Cameron. 

The pair didn’t show their age against the two younger men as they showed off their skills on the Canadian slopes. 

In order to get to the best location, the group took a helicopter ride to the very top of the snowy mountains. 

The trip took place after Katy Perry, the Lord Of The Rings actor’s fiancée, admitted to regretting her recent Blue Origin space flight following criticism of her behaviour. 

Orlando Bloom took to Instagram on Monday to show off his snowboarding skills whilst heli-snowboarding in Canada over the Easter weekend

Orlando Bloom took to Instagram on Monday to show off his snowboarding skills whilst heli-snowboarding in Canada over the Easter weekend

The 40-year-old was part of the all female crew that took off on the morning of Monday 17 April from West Texas on board the Blue Origin – the space exploration company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.

The fleet included the Roar singer, Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez, as well as NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and activist Amanda Nguyen. 

Despite the original purpose of the 11-minute expedition was seemingly harmless, it has since been described as ‘tone deaf’ and ’embarrᴀssing’.

Perhaps the most ridiculed moment from last week’s event was when the pop star emerged from the Blue Origin capsule. She immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the capsule, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.

An inside source has called the criticism unexpected for the former American Idol judge and ‘disheartening’ for the rest of the all-female crew.

‘Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it,’ the insider exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com.

The source admitted that Perry now regrets ‘kissing the ground’ after the flight as well as her ‘close-up camera moments’ inside the capsule – where she held a daisy up to the camera, promoted the setlist to her upcoming tour, and sang the lyrics to ‘What a Wonderful World’ all while suspended in micrograv

Perry waxed poetic about feeling ‘super connected to love,’ thanked a reporter who called her an astronaut, and declared how their all-female journey ‘has always been about love and belonging.’ 

The trip took place after Katy Perry , the Lord Of The Rings actor's wife, admitted to regretting her recent Blue Origin space flight following criticism of her behaviour

The trip took place after Katy Perry , the Lord Of The Rings actor’s wife, admitted to regretting her recent Blue Origin space flight following criticism of her behaviour 

In order to get to the best location, the group took a helicopter ride to the very top of the snowy mountains

In order to get to the best location, the group took a helicopter ride to the very top of the snowy mountains

The 48-year-old actor shared a video to his grid of him alongside TV producer Mark Burnett, 64, and Mark's two children, James and Cameron

The 48-year-old actor shared a video to his grid of him alongside TV producer Mark Burnett, 64, and Mark’s two children, James and Cameron

On take-off day Bloom was spotted in the crowds watching his wife alongside Oprah Winfrey (pictured)

On take-off day Bloom was spotted in the crowds watching his wife alongside Oprah Winfrey (pictured)

‘It’s not about singing my songs. It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,’ she said in a post-flight interview.

‘And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.’

Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Why Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom decided to show daughter Daisy for the first time article image

It didn’t take long, however, for the public to slam Perry’s behaviour as dramatic and over-the-top, especially considering NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were recently stranded in space for more than nine months.

It was previously revealed that Perry planned to bring the daisy to space as a ‘beautiful tribute’ to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, who she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.

In a rare sighting, her daughter was seen on Monday dressed in an astronaut costume to watch her famous mom fly to the edge of space. 

The parents reportedly made the ‘difficult decision’ to introduce Daisy to the world because Perry wanted Daisy to be ‘proud of her and show her daughter that she can do anything.’

But now, the source shared that the pop star ‘regrets sharing the daisy with the world’ and ultimately ‘wishes the video footage from inside the pod was never shown’ at all.

It wasn’t just social media users who criticized the all-female Blue Origin space mission on Monday either. 

The pop star was seen kissing the ground as she descended from the Blue Origin capsule, before launching into an emotional post-flight interview with reporters

The pop star was seen kissing the ground as she descended from the Blue Origin capsule, before launching into an emotional post-flight interview with reporters

Upon arriving back on Earth, each of the ladies were seen exiting the rocket one by one - but Perry's reaction to completing the journey left many people all across the web unamused

Upon arriving back on Earth, each of the ladies were seen exiting the rocket one by one – but Perry’s reaction to completing the journey left many people all across the web unamused

In fact, a slew of fellow celebrities – including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer – have slammed the spectacle as a frivolous publicity campaign for Bezos’ space company.

The American Fast food chain Wendy’s even emerged as an unlikely critic of the Blue Origin flight when the company left a shady comment under a pH๏τo of Perry in her spacesuit, asking if we can ‘send her back’ to space.

What’s more, Perry’s long standing pop rival Kesha took pleasure in the backlash by posting a pH๏τo of herself drinking from a Wendy’s cup – a move that, according to the source, Perry felt was ‘adding fuel to the fire.’

In addition to the all-female crew’s bizarre post-flight behaviour, a number of social media activists couldn’t help but question the environmental impact such a space mission will have on our planet here.

Bezos’ rocket does release water vapour as a byproduct, resulting in virtually no direct carbon emissions. But Eloise Marais, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at University College London, told the BBC the water vapor is still an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas that can contribute to global warming.

This was surprising for fans considering Perry’s long history of warning about the effects of climate change, most notably in a resurfaced video Perry filmed for UNICEF in 2015. 

She also became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambᴀssador in 2013 to highlight the effects of climate change on the world’s most disadvantaged populations, mainly children.

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe and Kerianne Flynn were a part of the 'historic' all-female Blue Origin space mission on Monday

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe and Kerianne Flynn were a part of the ‘historic’ all-female Blue Origin space mission on Monday

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