Don’t expect to seeSarah Jessica Parkerand her BFFAndy Cohenat theMet GalaMonday night.
The longtime friends, who have attended the prestigious charity event together multiple times in the past, will be skipping the festivities this time around.
Why are they taking the year off? Turns out theSex and the Citystar, 54, will be traveling and theWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenhost, 50, has a show to film.
“She’s on a plane somewhere, and I have to work,” Cohen toldEntertainment Tonighton Saturday night. “We are not going.”
Monday, Parker posted a photo of a solo booth at NYC pizzeria Don Fillippo that featured a veryun-Met Gala hoodie and a delicious-looking slice.
Both will be missed on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s iconic New York City steps this year, where Parker has regularly turned heads with her extravagant outfits.
Cohen has typically opted for more classic tuxedos at the gala, though last year draped a gold coat over the shoulders of his white tux jacket and gold loafers.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Andy Cohen at the 2018 Met Gala.Neilson Barnard/Getty
The theme for each year’s Met Gala is based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibit — which this year is “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” a reference to writer Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essayNotes on Camp.
That means viewers can expect a wide array of exaggerated and theatrical outfit choices. “Whether it’s pop camp, queer camp, high camp or political camp —Trumpis a very camp figure — I think it’s very timely,” the curator of the institute, Andrew BoltontoldThe New York Timesabout his choice. “Much of high camp is a reaction to something.”
Though Parker and Cohen won’t be in attendance, a star-studded crowd is expected, including newlywedsNick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra.
Wintour, the editor ofVogue, has co-chaired the event every year since 1995 and always selects those who will join her in the role. For 2019, she appropriately chose camp iconLady Gaga, formerOne DirectionfrontmanHarry Styles(perhaps because of hisGucci campaign), andSerena Williams— who recentlybroke boundaries with her fashion choices at restrictive tennis tournaments.
Andy Cohen and Sarah Jessica Parker.Andrew H. Walker/Variety/REX/Shutterstock
Meanwhile, Parker and Cohen were together on Saturday night at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, where she presented the Bravo personality with the Vito Russo Award for his activism and role as an openly LGBTQ media professional who has helped further LGBTQ acceptance.
“He’s been incredibly open about his life. I think he’s felt honor-bound to speak up and speak out,” Parker toldET.“I think that when you lead your life with pride, and compassion, and concern and curiosity, and you’re an advocate — I think it adds up.”
During his acceptance speech, Cohen spoke about his own experience navigating his identity in the LGBTQ community and becoming a father to his son,Benjamin Allen.
“To be gay today is something I am so thankful for. But the fight is not over, and it’s a fight that I’m committed to — even more so now that I’m a father,” said the late night talk show host, who welcomed his now 3-month-old son via surrogate on Feb. 4, 2019.
“I never thought it could happen,” Cohen said about starting his own family. “When Benjamin was born three months ago, I looked into his eyes and I saw that there was no hate, no bias, no bigotry. Just love.”
He added: “That’s how we come into this world and that is how hopefully one day we will all live in it.”
source: people.com
