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Hot Takes: Best (and Worst) of the Met Gala

By H. Alan Scott

If there's one hot take everyone is still talking about, it's the Met Gala on Monday. The stars turned it out for this year's Met Gala. Some of the looks were incredible, others were just downright confusing. (Part of that confusion was because some of these stars were forced to interpret a rather obscure theme, "Gardens of Time.")

The look of the night was Zendaya, of course, and it makes sense. She was not only a co-chair of the night—handpicked by Anna Wintour—but she's also the hottest celebrity out there right now thanks to her steamy new film Challengers. Other top looks went to Mindy Kaling, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Williams, Demi Moore and Cole Escola.

The worst look of the night had to be Lana Del Rey. Normally I like weird, but hers was a little too weird. (It was a dress with a large net hovering over it held up by branches.) Other gag worthy looks included Lizzo's strange Grute-looking piece, Kendall Jenner and Gayle King. (Just don't tell Oprah I said that.) Speaking of bad, some of these men need to learn that a basic black tux is not the moment for the Met Gala. Like read the room. But the worst tux of the night went to Ed Sheeran, who came looking like something from Dumb & Dumber in a 70s inspired blue tux.

But my favorite thing to look for is the one outfit that gets the Can't Sit In It Award, and that award goes to Kim Kardashian. She was corseted to the point where it looked unhealthy. And then she decided to add a little sweater to it, making it look like she stopped at Zara or something on the way to the Met. Not a good look.

Let's break some other hot takes...

• There was a shooting outside rapper Drake's Toronto home Tuesday, leaving a security guard seriously injured. The shooter fled the scene and an investigation is ongoing. This happened amid Drake's very public feud with Kendrick Lamar.

• Eurovision, the crazy popular song contest for international audiences, has narrowed down the artists moving on the grand finale this week. Ten songs will compete for the top prize. The favorites going into Saturday's grand finale are Ukraine and Croatia.

• Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chief football star and Taylor Swift's boo, has officially joined Ryan Murphy's new horror series Grotesquerie.

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