Katy Perry Celebs take note: If you don't want people to write stuff about you, then it pays to shut your gob.

This is a lesson Katy Perry should learn quick smart.

Yesterday we told you that the singer had joked about taking a vow of celibacy.

Now she's freaking out about it - as she reckons peeps took her way too seriously.

"That was a joke," she explained. "And any fine journalist would have gotten that joke and inserted that in the context."

"I'm not going to be celibate, I guess I'm just going to be looking for the right one. But please. Celibacy for a whole year? I'd rather die."

Um, well Katy, none of us ladies at the Showbiz Shed really took you at your word, so lighten up.

Katy continued her rant saying: "That's just how the media works. I'm a continual prankster and a jokester, and people forget that you have to interpret that if I'm telling a joke."