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The 26-year-old singer took the Great Oak Stage at the London music festival on Sunday night without seemingly breaking a sweat.

Carpenter dazzled a crowd of 65,000 people with her tongue-in-cheek lyrics, choreography, and glitzy costumes, as she belted through her hit songs.

The Espresso singer was welcomed on stage by fans sporting the likes of cowboy hats, platform boots and glitter – who eagerly waited for the moment to sing along with the pop star.

Opening her set with Busy Woman, Carpenter went through her biggest hits from her most recent Short n’ Sweet album including Taste, Bed Chem and Please Please Please.

Midway through the concert, she asked the crowds to howl with her before introducing the “legendary” pop rock band Duran Duran to the stage, where lead singer, Simon Le Bon, and bass guitarist John Taylor emerged to join Carpenter to sing Hungry Like The Wolf.

She later led the London crowd into a line dance as she sang her most recent hit single Manchild, before taking a moment to thank her fans.

She said: “I don’t really understand how this is possible but you guys sold out two nights, 65,000 people, at Hyde park.

“I believe two years ago I was playing a show here for about 5,000 people and before that I was opening for many different talented artists and I was just like dreaming of this day and this moment and I am just so grateful to everybody that came here, so thank you for spending your evening with us.”

She later “arrested” The Bear star Ayo Edebiri and singer Clairo, in what has become a trademark introduction to her song Juno with screens showing alarms and the caption, “You’re under arrest for being too hot”.

Throughout the set, she also performed track favourites from her 2022 album, Emails I Can’t Send, which included Feather, Because I Liked A Boy and her viral hit Nonsense.

From dancing on a makeshift balcony to serenading a sea of flashing lights, Carpenter closed her sold-out show by serving up her hit song Espresso, complimented with a firework display.

The performance comes after the singer announced she will be releasing a new album called Man’s Best Friend later in the summer.

Carpenter gained prominence starring on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World as a teenager and released her debut album Eyes Wide Open in 2015 on Hollywood Records.

She later signed to Island Records and released her gold-certified fifth studio album, Emails I Can’t Send, through them.

Earlier this year, she received the global success award at the 2025 Brit Awards in recognition of her breakthrough year in 2024, in which she became the first woman to simultaneously occupy the top three spots of the UK singles chart with Taste, Please Please Please, and Espresso.

With the release of The Old Guard 2 on Netflix ahead of the holiday weekend, star Charlize Theron is reflecting on the state of female-led action movies in Hollywood and why she is no longer doing as many stunts as before.

In a joint interview with the New York Times opposite her co-star Uma Thurman, the Mad Max: Fury Road actress said studios are less likely to give more chances to women who spearhead blockbusters, especially if the movie doesn’t kill at the box office.

“Yeah, it’s harder. That’s known,” she responded when asked by the newspaper if there’s still a gender disparity in getting certain pics made. “Action films with female leads don’t get green lit as much as the ones with male leads. I think the thing that always frustrates me is the fact that guys will get a free ride. When women do this and the movie maybe doesn’t hit fully, they don’t necessarily get a chance again. With this, we were very aware that eyes were on us. It’s not a risk that studios want to take, but they’ll take it many times on the same guy who might have a string of action movies that did not do so well.”

A veteran of commercially successful action-packed cinema, including The Italian Job, Atomic Blonde and several Fast & Furious entries, Theron also opened up about doing less stunts in her career due to past severe injuries that required surgery.

“I run into people and they’re like, ‘Oh, what happened to your arm?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, I just had surgery.’ And they’re like, ‘The last time I saw you, you had surgery!’ I had an unfortunate injury on the first action attempt I ever did, for a bad movie called Aeon Flux. On day nine, I did a back handspring, and I didn’t get enough height, and I landed on my neck on a concrete bridge. I had the last surgery on my neck 18 years ago. I’ve had surgery on both elbows, my right shoulder, my thumb, carpal tunnel, fractures. A lot of fractures,” she recalled.

As a result, Theron said she has “no desire to learn how to fall down a flight of stairs” nor perfect underwater acting.

“It’s about time we actually recognize those performers,” she said, alluding to the Oscars’ addition of an Achievement in Stunt Design category in 2027, “because they are truly part of character building. Without them, there’s a lot of stuff that would never be in a movie that I’m in. I’m never going to know how to fall down a flight of stairs, or jump on a moving vehicle. My adult woman brain is like, ‘No thank you. I’m OK not doing that.’”

Thurman, for whom The Old Guard 2 marks a return to action in over two decades, agreed, saying she is “really practical” when it comes to avoiding taking on projects that require a lot of physicality, such as underwater elements.

A followup to 2020’s Gina Prince-Bythewood original based on Greg Rucka’s comic book series about immortal mercenaries, Victoria Mahoney‘s The Old Guard 2 follows Andy (Theron), no longer immortal, facing a formidable foe in Discord (Thurman).

You can read Deadline’s full interview with Mahoney here.