Turner-Smith, 37, rocked placing platinum blonde straight hair for the primary time as she stole the highlight on the star-studded occasion at New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Monday, Might 6.

The actress and mannequin donned a glamorous white costume by Burberry adorned with intricate embroidered flowers and paired with a sheer, feathered cape that flowed behind her.

The Queen & Slim star, who rubbed shoulders on the occasion with the likes of Zendaya and Jennifer Lopez, complimented her blonde locks with a winged eyeliner and eyeshadow look and dangling earrings.

She accessorized with a purple flower, purple bangles and a cross necklace.

And because the star confidently rocked her look on the crimson carpet earlier than a slew of cameras, there was no probability of a probably awkward run-in together with her ex Joshua Jackson and his girlfriend, Lupita Nyong’o, as each have been absent from the occasion.

Turner-Smith filed for divorce from Jackson, 45, in September 2023, citing irreconcilable variations as the rationale for the break up. She later revealed that she determined to “make a transfer” for her personal sake.

“Typically issues we actually need to work simply don’t find yourself working,” she advised the U.Ok.’s The Instances in February. “And that’s OK. Crucial factor is that you just select what’s healthiest for you and your loved ones and positively your kids.”

She continued, “There are such a lot of completely different moments in our life the place we have a look at ourselves and say, ‘Who am I and am I being true to that?’ If the reply is not any, then you need to make a transfer as a result of I consider that there are seen scars from staying in locations that aren’t good for us. They usually don’t simply have an effect on us, they have an effect on everyone round us.”

She continued: “The bravest factor on the earth is to acknowledge when one thing’s not working and to make a transfer, and I all the time need to set that type of instance for my daughter.”

Turner-Smith added that there’s “simply as a lot love and pleasure because it has all the time been” for the sake of their 3-year-old daughter. The pair wed secretly in December 2019 and welcomed a daughter one yr later.

Final December, on the heels of their respective breakups, Jackson and Nyong’o, 41, began relationship. “Joshua and Lupita have been relationship for a really brief whereas now. They’re specializing in preserving their relationship beneath the radar as a lot as doable,” a supply advised Us Weekly on the time.

The insider added: “Though it’s solely been just a few weeks, they have been buddies earlier than relationship so that they have a extremely strong basis for a relationship. Issues are very new however going rather well to date.”

Since then, Nyong’o has revealed that she won’t be overtly claiming her new relationship. The star’s very public romance together with her ex musician Selema Masekela resulted in heartbreak final yr, and in an interview with Porter journal this February, the star stated she’s going to now not be flaunting any new relationships.

She stated it was “very, very sage of me” to by no means be public about her earlier relationships on social media. “I’m going again to these days, by the way in which,” she added.

Neither Turner-Smith nor Jackson have publicly addressed his and Nyong’o’s romance.

Nobody does the Met Gala like Rihanna — however this 12 months, a last-minute sickness stored her from taking a bow. 

Though the singer, 36, initially deliberate to grace Us together with her presence at vogue’s largest evening on Monday, Could 6, a sources informed Folks and Leisure Tonight that she was in the end pressured to cancel final minute after coming down with the flu. 

Rihanna beforehand teased her search for the occasion, which takes place on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York Metropolis, telling Vogue final month that she deliberate to include her many companies into her outfit. “I’m gonna put on Fenty one thing! Fenty Magnificence, Fenty Pores and skin, Fenty Savage,” she shared. 

Rihanna asserted, nonetheless, that the look can be extra modest than her appears from the previous. 

“I’ve finished a lot s—t in my life. I’ve had my nipples out, my panties out. However now, these are the issues which, I suppose as a mother and an advanced younger woman — emphasis on younger woman — these are issues I really feel like I’d by no means do 1715111047,” she informed Vogue.

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Finally 12 months’s ball, Rihanna made a grand entrance in Valentino. 

The Grammy winner honored the theme “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence” — which celebrated the late designer — in a rose-covered white robe. After reaching the highest of the enduring Met staircase, then-pregnant Rihanna confirmed off her child bump by eradicating the outer layer of her ensemble, revealing a sleeveless gown that hugged her curves. She accentuated the look with a diamond assertion necklace, outsized lashes that got here within the type of sun shades and a daring purple lip. (Rihanna and boyfriend ASAP Rocky welcomed their second son, Riot Rose, in August 2023. Child No. 1, son RZA, was born in Could 2022.) 

In the identical Vogue interview, Rihanna mirrored on her favourite Met Gala appears, praising the yellow gold Guo Pei masterpiece she wore on the 2015 soirée as her finest. 

“No one will ever neglect that and I’ll always remember the sensation of discovering that designer based mostly off of the design problem that Anna [Wintour] gave me,” Rihanna informed the publication.