Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom haven't said a peep publicly about their split ... save for some cryptic social media posts ... but now they're having their teams do their dirty work.

The former couple's reps just released a joint statement to Us Weekly ... addressing their breakup head on for the first time.

The statement reads ... "Due to the abundance of recent interest and conversation surrounding Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry's relationship, representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on coparenting."

Flavor Flav is calling for the United States to ban all firearms ... he says the country is caught in a "epidemic of gun violence with no sign we can stop or change course."

The rapper called on a gun ban in an op-ed in Newsweek ... Flav says he fears for his kids when he drops them off at school, and that school shootings are so common they have become normalized.

Flav says ... "Our schools aren't safe and our kids aren't safe. This is because gun protection laws are weak."

A couple bonehead youth baseball coaches from Illinois got fired after getting buck naked and running the bases in the nude at a tournament in New York.

Video circulating on social media shows two men streaking at one of the ballfields at Cooperstown All Star Village ... and one guy even slides head first into home plate, completely in the nude.

The guys on the video are reportedly youth baseball assistant coaches from Lake Bluff, Illinois ... and the stunt appears to have happened with kids watching.

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It's monkey see monkey do for Tom Brady and his daughter Vivian ... because after she jumped off the top deck of a yacht, he followed suit ... and it's all on video.

TB12 is doing the mega yacht thing off the coast of Ibiza and he just shared one of the more adventurous parts of his day with his 12-year-old.

First, Vivian jumps off the edge of the yacht's second deck and splashes down into the Mediterranean Sea.

Michael Madsen's sons are gathering outside his Malibu home where he was found dead ... the emotions are coming out, and it's all on video.

The 'Kill Bill' actor's four sons -- Christian, Max, Luke and Kalvin -- hugged and embraced Tuesday at their father's estate ... and they look somber and sad.

As we reported ... Michael was found dead inside the house Thursday morning after someone called 911 to report him unresponsive. LASD deputies arrived and pronounced Michael dead at the scene.

Clayton Howard, one of the male escorts prosecutors say Diddy hired, is dragging Diddy and Cassie to court ... and he says Cassie gave him a sexually transmitted disease and got an abortion after he got her pregnant.

Howard, who says he went by "Dave" when he was hired for freak-offs with Diddy and Cassie, makes the salacious claims in a new lawsuit obtained by TMZ.

The escort claims he contracted an STD from having sex with Cassie ... and he says he impregnated her and she aborted the pregnancy without telling him  ... and he alleges she then continued having unprotected sex with him.

Michael Madsen's health was cleared by doctors just days before his sudden death -- this according to his longtime friend and assistant, Dougie Smith.

Dougie tells TMZ the 'Kill Bill' star was doing a routine hospital visit at UCLA last Friday to get his rotator cuff looked at, citing complications from a fall off a horse about 2 years ago. Michael was apparently considering getting surgery ... but due to his upcoming schedule, he decided to put it in a brace for the time being.

Michael had also suffered a minor brain bleed from the fall, so he received a PET scan to ensure everything was looking A-okay ... and according to Dougie, Michael got the all-clear from docs.

2:35 PM PT -- Fox 11 LA obtained video of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.'s ICE arrest in Studio City, CA Wednesday.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., days after sharing the ring with Jake Paul, is locked in a jail cell ... after ICE agents arrested the former champ over a warrant in Mexico for alleged weapons trafficking and connections to a cartel.

Officials from the Department of Homeland Security tell TMZ Sports that 39-year-old Chavez Jr., the son of boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., was detained Thursday in Studio City over an active warrant out of our neighbors to the south.

The warrant, according to the U.S. gov, stems from Chavez's alleged involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives.

Lisa Bloom says the jury verdict in the Diddy sex trafficking trial is a gut punch she hasn't felt since O.J. Simpson was acquitted in his murder trial.

The famed attorney, who represents Diddy's sexual assault accuser Dawn Richard, tells TMZ ... this is one of the most disappointing verdicts for victims of sexual assault since The Juice got off.

Lisa cites the Cassie beating video and says it's hard to see a man caught on video beating and dragging his girlfriend, only to be convicted of relatively minor prostitution charges.

Michael Madsen's death is sending shockwaves through Hollywood ... and a bunch of celebs are remembering him with heartfelt tributes ... including his famous sister.

"Sideways" star Virginia Madsen says of her late older brother, "He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw."

Virginia says Michael was a father, son and brother "etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark." She says he's not a public figure but a "myth ... flesh and blood and ferocious art."

Judge Mathis is reacting to the verdict in the Diddy trial ... and he's calling for Diddy to be sentenced like anyone else would.

We got the Judge at Mountain Gate Golf Course on Wednesday and asked him about Diddy skating on the most serious charges in his racketeering and sex trafficking case.

Judge Mathis says he never thought the RICO charge made sense and the sex trafficking counts were questionable ... though he feels for Cassie and all the abuse she suffered.

It's Tom Cruise's birthday today and we're celebrating his 63 trips around the sun with a look at some of his handsome shots and most amazing stunts through the years.

Tom's been giving Hollywood its adrenaline and action fix for going on four decades now ... and he's one of the highest-paid actors in the world for good reason ... his movies make bank.

The guy still does his own stunts and he's pulled off some incredible feats in recent years ... look no further than his last two additions to the 'Mission Impossible' franchise.

Orlando Bloom seems to be turning to psychology to analyze his split from Katy Perry.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star posted a bunch of famous quotes from Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung on his social media.

Orlando was particularly interested in Jung's findings on loneliness, addiction, the purpose of human existence, love, power and more.

Michael Madsen -- famous for his roles in "Kill Bill," "Reservoir Dogs" and "Donnie Brasco" is dead.

The veteran Hollywood actor was found unresponsive in his Malibu home early Thursday and was pronounced dead at the scene ... TMZ has confirmed.

According to law enforcement sources ... someone called 911 and Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies responded and found Michael dead. The cause of death is unclear, but we're told Michael's death is being treated as natural causes. His rep Liz Rodriguez tells us he suffered cardiac arrest.