21st May 2012 Celebrity Trending - Katy Perry, John Mayer, Emily Maynard

Katy Perry has split from Rob Ackroyd.

The "One That Got Away" hitmaker has decided not to pursue a relationship with the Florence + the Machine guitarist -- who she met at last month's Coachella Music Festival -- because she felt their respective working commitments would make seeing one another regularly too hard. A source close to Katy -- who separated from husband Russell Brand in December after 14 months of marriage -- said: "The main thing which led to her split with Russell was spending the majority of her marriage to him on tour and she said dating Rob felt like being with ­Russell all over again. "It's a shame as they both liked each other but Katy wants to be able to have a relationship with someone she isn't constantly having to work out what time zone they're in. "Rob was gutted but Katy said she didn't want to get in too deep and then break his heart so it was best to cut things off before they got serious." The split has come as a shock to friends as Katy had appeared smitten with the musician and they were in "constant" contact. The source added to the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "Rob was the first guy Katy had been with since splitting from Russell. "She was still extremely fragile but had told pals their two weekends at Coachella together made her feel 'sexy and alive' again. "Even when Rob left to continue touring ­America with Florence they would speak on the phone up to three times a day and she'd be constantly texting him."

John Mayer gave away intimate details about his personal life in interviews because he didn’t want to seem boring. The musician is famed for likening Jessica Simpson to “sexual napalm” when talking to Playboy in 2010, while he also opened up about his relationship with Jennifer Aniston in another interview. He has now tried to explain why he was so willing to discuss private matters. “I had nothing to say – I was going through a time in my life where I didn't really want to share what was going on, but I didn't want to be boring,” he told Guy Raz radio show All Things Considered. “I remember thinking to myself, 'We gotta give a Rolling Stone interview… I don't want anybody at Playboy to think this is a boring interview.' I got those lines so crossed, that what you read – among other things, obviously – is this complete miscalculation in why I was asked to do the interview.” John thinks the main issue was he knew he’d be expected to discuss his personal life, but didn’t really want to go into what was happening to him. That meant he embellished things. “I wasn't prepared to be honest, but I knew that I had to be open," he explained. "When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. It doesn't mean I can go back and scrub it out, but I understand it [now].” The 34-year-old remembers fearing his public persona was doing him damage. Some people found him annoying and he was determined to show he could be fun. “I'd read comments [that said], 'He's a d-bag.' And then you go, 'No, I'm not!' If you're a control freak you [think], I'm going to figure out a way to make that one guy say, 'He's not all that bad,'” he recalled.

So after some initial hesitation, Emily accepted the role of starring on The Bachelorette's eighth edition with the hopes of getting a second shot at finding a potential husband on reality TV and a suitable father-figure for her daughter Ricki. During a Wednesday conference call with reporters, the 26-year-old single mom talked to Reality TV World about her The Bachelorette season which premiered Monday night.