Orlando Bloom’s clumsy bid to slug Justin Bieber was spurred by the fact that the “Lord of the Rings” star could no longer face his wife, Miranda Kerr, after Bieber got cozy with her at a 2012 Victoria’s Secret modeling show, The Post has learned.
“He never looked at her the same,” a Bloom pal told The Post.
Bieber, meanwhile, upped the ante in the duo’s lightweight celebrity sparring match Wednesday by posting an Instagram picture of Bloom crying on the red carpet outside a 2013 Broadway afterparty.
The Canadian crooner quickly took down the photo — in which Bloom was overcome with emotion at his debut in “Romeo and Juliet” on the Great White Way.
But Biebs wasn’t finished striking back at the punch-throwing actor. He also uploaded a sexy bikini shot of Kerr on Wednesday morning, obviously meant to make the Middle Earth elf see red.
Bloom and Bieber went to war early Wednesday when their paths crossed at a celebrity-packed nightclub on the Spanish party isle of Ibiza.
Sources told The Post that Bloom flew into a rage when Bieber taunted him by saying “She was good” — a clear reference to his mysterious hook-up with Kerr at the 2012 modeling show.
Just how far the teen heartthrob and the lingerie lovely went that night has remained a Victoria’s Secret. The two were only publicly spotted flirting.
But Bloom — who split with Kerr the next year — clearly suspected the worst as he balled his hand into a fist at the club and tried to knock Bieber’s smug block off with a haymaker.
Witnesses differed on whether the epic blow actually struck the 20-year-old singer. But sources said that the actor’s attempt to coldcock Bieber caused the crowd of onlookers to cheer.
Yet after the scuffle, Bieber remained cocky, declaring “Say hi to her” as Bloom walked away, according to some witnesses.
Bieber continued his bravado the next day, as the “Baby” singer shamelessly posted Instagram pictures of himself carelessly lounging bare-chested on a boat.
“Sunburnt and a mustache,” he captioned the image, in an apparent reference to his pubescent scruff of facial hair.
Kerr, meanwhile, was back at work on Wednesday doing what she does best — making love to cameras. She posted an incredibly sexy shot of herself topless in a bathtub and wearing 7fam jeans, which she endorses.
Kerr also shared a brief clip of an upcoming 7fam TV spot, in which she seductively looked over her shoulder, rolled over in bed and said: “I love them, I love them.”
The stunner also posted a picture of herself strolling hand-in-hand with Flynn, her 3-year-old son with Bloom.
The mother and son had their backs to the camera. She captioned the shot with a simple heart emoji.
Bloom, meanwhile, managed to stay quiet yesterday and made no public comments about the incident.
Additional reporting by Mara Siegler