All the celebrities who skipped the 2025 Met Gala, including Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez and Blake Lively

While some stars turned heads with daring looks at the 2025 Met Gala, others gave fashion’s biggest night a miss altogether.On Monday’s the who’s who of Hollywood assembled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to pay homage to the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” theme of the night.This year’s theme celebrated the styles of black dandy men and “the importance of clothing in style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora.”But while the blue carpet became a stomping ground for some of the biggest stars belonging to the Hollywood elite, there were a slew of notable absences.Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce gave the fashion extravaganza a skip this year after being unable to make it due to their work schedules, sources told TMZ.Swift hasn’t attended the Met Gala since 2016, meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end has yet to make his Met Gala debut.Jennifer Lopez was also a no-show.Instead, the “On The Floor” hitmaker, 55, was reportedly busy shooting her new film, “Office Romance.”Also absent from the high-fashion fête were Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds.
Their absence might not come as a surprise to many, given Lively’s ongoing legal feud with her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni.Also missing from the star-studded soirée was Naomi Campbell, who announced that she would be skipping the event on social media.“Congratulations to Anna Wintour, the brilliant designers, the dedicated Met Gala team, and stunning attendees of tonight’s extraordinary celebration,” the supermodel wrote via Instagram on Monday.Campbell went on to acknowledge she was “honored” to be invited, but nonetheless “regretfully cannot make it.”Meanwhile, Timothée Chalamet skipped the Met Gala to watch the New York Knicks game from home — despite his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, attending the event.Supermodel and new mom Gisele Bündchen also stayed home during this year’s event, which took place...