Experiencing FOMO about the Met Gala happening tonight? Will you, like me, be sitting in your pajamas watching celebrities’ Instagram stories about their red carpet glam? Never fear, Keke Palmer and Ilana Glazer will be hosting a livestream of the Met Gala on Vogue platforms, according to People. For the first time ever, the event and red carpet will be memorialized in real-time—most likely having to do with the limited number of attendees allowed and how glued we’ve all become to our cellphones since the pandemic began.
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If you happen to miss the livestream tonight, don’t worry. Everything will be posted to Vogue platforms on Tuesday, September 14. The livestream will feature interviews by Palmer and Glazer with “A-list celebrities, designers and other high-profile guests on the Met Gala’s iconic red carpet as [they] arrive. It will be broadcast live across Vogue’s platforms, including [Vogue] and on Twitter @voguemagazine.”
The theme of this year’s Met Gala is In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, so who better than to be one of the hosts and co-chairs of the event than Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. She is joined by Grand Slam-winning tennis star Naomi Osaka and Billie Eilish and Timothée Chalamet. As previously reported by The Root, this year’s event is “distinctively diverse,” not only including two of incredibly important young Black women right now, but a commissioned film by Melina Matsoukas (Lemonade, Queen & Slim). The filmmaker will be creating an “open-ended film to project in the galleries, the content of which will evolve over the course of the exhibition,” per a press release provided to The Glow Up.
As always, people in the Twitter-verse have something to say about this year’s event.
Oh, and Rih announced on her Instagram stories: “If you planning a MET ball after party………….don’t.”
Will Keke be live-streaming that, too?
Tony Awards Name Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald as Hosts
The Tony Awards are coming up quickly and they’ve dropped a ball on us! The two-part award ceremony will be hosted by Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald. Odom Jr. will be hosting the two-hour “Return to Broadway” event which takes place after the show and McDonald will be taking on the role of host for the 74th annual Tony Awards.
“Broadway is a part of my DNA and I’m so thrilled to see it open back up again,” Odom Jr. tells Deadline. “There are so many talented artists going back to work and doing what they love for audiences who have missed these tremendous performances. I’m very happy to host ‘The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!’”
“I am so glad that we’ve found a way to gather safely to honor and recognize all the incredible work that was done in the 2019-20 season,” adds McDonald. “While we look back, my greatest hope is that this event marks the beginning of a new era for Broadway – one with a renewed commitment to inclusivity and belonging as well as an appreciation for the sacred experience of live theater.”
The awards air on September 26 at 7:00 p.m. ET / 4:00 p.m. PT on Paramount+, according to Deadline and the “two-hour celebratory Broadway concert, live from Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre, begins immediately thereafter at 9 PM ET/PT on CBS.”
She’s in Control: Janet Jackson Releases First Teaser for New Documentary, Janet
Some news it so good it bears repeating—especially when an icon’s influence was so clear at the 2021 MTV VMAs. In January 2022, Janet Jackson will release her two-part documentary, Janet in celebration of the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Janet Jackson (1982) on Lifetime and A&E. As we previously reported, the documentary opens with interview clips from other artists who worked with the pop star like Paula Abdul, Mariah Carey and Missy Elliot. Viewers get to hear Jackson’s older brother Tito Jackson chanting, “Janet! Janet! Janet!” offscreen as the film begins and even get archival footage of her late brother Michael Jackson and late co-star from Poetic Justice, Tupac Shakur.
“This is my story, told by me. Not through someone else’s eyes,” Janet says as the story of her life begins.
Red Table Talk Is Back in September
The iconic mother/daughter/granddaughter trio is back! Or, coming back, that is. Facebook Watch’s Daytime Emmy-award-winning talk show, Red Table Talk will be back online on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET and will be releasing episodes weekly according to People. Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris invite special guests to bare their souls at the infamous red table including Tiffany Haddish and Yvonne Orji. You can watch the trailer for the new season here.
(Also, is this not the most perfect “personality pic” you’ve ever seen?)
The Collective PAC Celebrates Five Years of Building Black Political Power With Nas and DJ D-Nice
On September 18, The Collective PAC will host their five-year anniversary celebration with performers such as Grammy Award-winning artist Nas and NAACP Image Awards 2021 Entertainer of the Year, DJ D-Nice. The Collective PAC works to increase the number of Black people within government and hold government positions across all levels. All proceeds from the event will go towards helping Black candidates in this year’s midterm per a press release sent to The Root.
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