Category: 5. Entertainment

Singer-actress Sabrina Carpenter has publicly apologized following comments she made during her performance at BST Hyde Park, which some fans interpreted as shading fellow performer Clairo. 

The incident occurred during Carpenter’s July 5 show in London, where she referenced Clairo’s performance earlier in the evening, saying, “Clairo started small… now look at her.” Though meant as a compliment, a portion of fans perceived the tone as patronizing.

To clear the air, Carpenter addressed the remark during the same show, saying: “Ayo, I’m feeling you so hard… sorry about the Clairo shade. I’m kidding Claire, I love you too.” The apology was captured in a video posted to social media and quickly circulated among fans. The singer also acknowledged Clairo as a true talent and made it clear her comment was meant in jest.

Clairo had performed earlier that evening to an enthusiastic audience, and she, along with comedian Ayo Edebiri, was later jokingly “arrested” by Carpenter as part of a comedic skit during the headlining set. The moment was well received, and many fans appreciated Carpenter’s immediate clarification.

While Clairo has not publicly responded to the comment or apology, fans on social media largely praised Carpenter for her transparency and quick response. The event served as a reminder of how easily intent can be misunderstood, especially onstage.

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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.

Though MAD has hosted galas before, the museum’s president, Lionel Sauvage, described this one as its “first real family ball.”

“Everyone here is close to the museum,” he said of the event, which he hopes to stage every other year. He credited Jean-Victor Meyers, president of the gala’s honorary committee, with conceiving the idea of a festive summer ball in collaboration with Coppola. Describing a full-circle family moment, Sauvage recounted how, during the pandemic lockdowns, Thomas Mars—Coppola’s husband—used the museum’s great hall to rehearse with his band, Phoenix. “More than fundraising, that’s the kind of friendship and fun that defines this entire evening,” Sauvage said.

As artistic director, Coppola explained that her goal was to make guests feel at home—not as if they were attending a traditional fundraiser.

“I wanted to keep the theme of a summer ball and bring the garden inside,” Coppola offered, “and I approached it the same way I would a party scene in a movie.” One of her references? The legendary hostess Countess Jacqueline de Ribes as captured in an iconic 1980s Horst photograph, posed beside an exuberant flower arrangement. Rosy tablescapes, a menu composed by Bertrand Grébaut of Septime, and a performance by South African soprano Pretty Yende—dressed in a magenta vintage Balenciaga gown from the Nicolas Ghesquière era—rounded out the evening.

And, like many of her movies, Dunst (who explains she wouldn’t have missed the night, given that “Sofia is family to me!”) was, of course, present. Of Dunst’s favorite moment of the night? The Pretty Yende performance.

“I love the way hostesses did things then—big dresses, big flowers, color—while still being elegant and refined,” Coppola told Vogue. “I loved the idea of pale pink inspired by the Chanel archives—kind of Ginger Rogers—and I always loved Karl’s shirt dresses. I hope it feels personal, like a celebration of Paris and an occasion to dress up surrounded by beauty, art de vivre, and the great work of all the artisans who participated.”

The upbeat mood continued after dinner, as students from Paris’s top fashion and design schools joined an after-party featuring a performance by Phoenix, with legendary barman Colin Field overseeing the cocktails.

Inez said, “First of all, the most exciting thing for me was the dress code, because it meant you were expected to take care of how you look in a delicate and chic way. Seeing people feel chic and beautiful brought out this sense of I want to look amazing for me and have a good time. And then the way the space was transformed was just beautiful—you got the sense that people wanted to stay because they were happy.”

Added McGrath, who lingered until nearly midnight despite a pre-dawn call time for the Schiaparelli show: “I’m busy, so I’m not a woman who goes out every night. But tonight was beautiful. Wonderful scene, so many people I love all in the same place,” she said. “I keep thinking—why don’t we do this more often?”

WINNING TRIO: For Michael Rider’s debut collection at Celine, the French brand shut down the street in front of its headquarters.

While editors negotiated the security checkpoint, Kim Taehyung, aka V of K-pop band BTS, sailed up on a bicycle for his first official event since completing military service last month.

Having arrived early, he whiled away the time by watching guests arrive through a window overlooking the cobblestoned courtyard of the 17th-century mansion known as Hôtel Colbert de Torcy.

By the time he was joined by his longtime friend and fellow Celine ambassador Park Bo-gum and singer Suzy Bae, a veritable scrum had formed around the front row guests.

“Oh la la,” exclaimed Naomi Watts, as she dodged a server carrying a silver platter. The actress and Stripes Beauty founder wore Celine while promoting her book “Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause,” and has been toting the label’s Antoinette bag.

“I love everything about this brand, and it’s super exciting for Michael too,” said Watts, who donned an oversized black leather jacket over her gingham shirt dress. “Always a good way to go in my book: a little bit of classic, a little bit of modern and, yeah, a bit of androg’.”

Emily Hampshire was enjoying her first Paris Fashion Week. “You can tell it’s my first: I left my bag open, and that’s supposedly wrong to do,” she joked, after a fellow guest pointed out her 16 bag was not clasped shut.

Hampshire came with her “Schitt’s Creek” costar Dan Levy, who does double duty as her stylist. “He is a kind of style connoisseur, so I usually call him and send him lots of pictures of what I’m deciding on, and then he pares it down,” she revealed. 

It was Levy who introduced the Canadian actress to Rider, but even she had no idea what was about to come down the runway. “I’m just as in the dark as everybody, which is exciting. You rarely get to see something that you know nothing about,” she said. 

Hampshire noted the designer likes to keep a low profile. “You can’t find him on the internet, and there’s not many people you can’t find on the internet. He’s so private, and so this is really exciting to see the secret let out of the bag here,” Hampshire said.

Fresh off the release of “Bonjour Tristesse,” Lily McInerny was getting ready to go back on set. “It’s actually the first time I’ve worked in New York, even though I was born and raised there, so I’m really looking forward to shooting there,” she said.

She’s familiar with Rider’s work at Ralph Lauren. “I’m excited to see what sensibilities from there carry over. And I also understand that he worked with Phoebe Philo in the years of Phoebe Philo’s Celine, so I’m really excited to see if there’s any references to that era of Celine and a return to that style,” the 26-year-old actress said.

Rising star Théodore Pellerin, who played Karl Lagerfeld’s partner Jacques de Bascher in “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld,” enjoys dipping into fashion. “I like designers, I like what people can do with clothes and for an actor, obviously, clothes are very important,” he said.

The Canadian actor is gearing up for the release of two movies in which he plays the lead roles.

“Lurker,” the feature directorial debut for “The Bear” and “Beef” writer Alex Russell, premiered at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival. The story of a young retail worker who befriends a music celebrity, it will hit U.S. screens at the end of August.

That will be followed in September by “Nino,” for which he won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award during the Critics’ Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival.

“It’s the story of a young man who is unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer, and we follow him for three days before his first treatment. He locks himself out of his home and he kind of gets swallowed up by the city and the people he meets,” Pellerin explained. 

“The character is kind of forced to confront his mortality in a new way, but it’s ultimately a process that brings him back to life,” he said.

Also in attendance were Alanis Morissette, fresh off her performance at the Glastonbury Festival; Kristen Wiig; Dev Hynes; Hannah Einbinder; Jerrod Carmichael, and fellow designers Jonathan Anderson, Raf Simons, and Lucie and Luke Meier, among others.