
She had her first news conference since her release in preparation for the upcoming basketball season, which starts May 19. Griner recently appeared at an event with Al Sharpton and attended the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on Saturday. She later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. 8, 10 months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport. The 6-foot, 9-inch Griner is finally taking on a more public profile after being traded for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout on Dec.

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The WNBA star used that influence on the carpet at the Met Gala to talk about helping support families working to free Americans jailed in foreign prisons through the organization Bring Our Families Home, dressed in Calvin Klein and alongside her wife Just last week, Pugh attended an event with a long blonde bob with bangs.īrittney Griner knows she has an advantage over other Americans being detained overseas as a public figure with access to media. I don’t think anything that I do has to be 100% loved. So it doesn’t matter if people don’t necessarily like it. “Every time I step out in whatever dress, that’s a version of me that I’m really proud of. I love how it sparks conversation,” Pugh said. In an interview last week with the New York Times she teased that her Met Gala look was going to be “big.” Last week she revealed that she was the new star of Valentino’s Rockstud bag campaign.īut it was her hair that drew the most attention. Pugh has sported several showstopping Valentino looks lately, including at the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Don’t Worry Darling” and then again at the Oscars earlier this year. Her gown, also Valentino, was white with a black ribbon. The 27-year-old actor surprised onlookers with a shaved head, adorned with a sky-high feathered headpiece by Valentino. But it seems as if the carpet has some life still left in it, even with appearances by what would be showstoppers - like Jeremy Pope in a massive Karl Lagerfeld cape - at any other event already gone by.įlorence Pugh did not hold back for her Met Gala debut. and cocktails are long over inside the Met. Left behind were the journalists like AP’s Jocelyn Noveck, awaiting the whoever - or whatever - is coming. Inside the Met Gala, with cocktails over and done, most had gone inside for dinner. “Who are you wearing?” a reporter yelled. But the identity and the location of the final guest remains a mystery: Is it Rihanna, known for a grand - and late - entrance? Is it Choupette, coming to extract revenge on Jared Leto? Is it the cockroach that AP’s Beatrice Dupuy just saw scurry up the stairs? We’ve been told someone big is coming, and we’ve been told that for the last 40 minutes or so. All the reporters at the Met Gala are in a holding pattern. Wade recently said in an interview with Rachel Nichols that his family left Florida because his family wouldn’t be accepted, a reference to the state’s pursuit of anti-LGBTQ+ policies. Wade has two daughters, 4-year-old Kaavia and 15-year-old Zaya, who is trans.

He did a pan as all the press yelled and waved: “Thanks,” he said, “I wanted to show my daughter what the Met Gala was like.” Wade came back in to hug Griner, chatting with her and then FaceTiming his daughter on his phone. While we wait, here’s a cute moment witnessed by AP’s Brooke Lefferts: Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union departed and then Britney Griner walked down the Met steps to cheers. While it’s possible the cockroach was born in 2022, given that they have an adult lifespan of around six months, we reckoned that lifespan shortens significantly in New York City.
