
VF’s Britt Hennemuth escorted Timothee Chalamet to a particularly hot corner of the party where Kate Hudson squealed and hugged the Dune star. Jason Momoa greeted Donald Glover first, and then Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher (before she dashed to the restroom, pleading with her husband to help her unzip her dress to use the loo). Andrew Garfield munched on In-N-Out while Larry David did the same over his shoulder. Kim Kardashian stayed in stride with sister Kendall Jenner and model Hailey Bieber. There’s no excuse not to have a good time, suggested others as hordes of stars and industry insiders kicked back and looked to be having a great time inside the custom-designed, open air space that connects the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with Beverly Hills City Hall. Though Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Gold Party remained a buzzworthy late-night destination, there’s still no replacing the spread at Vanity Fair, a sea of cover-worthy stars. “If I had a husband,” she said, “I would want them to do the same for me.” One high-profile industry reveler preferred to remain anonymous but offered this of the “grotesque” display: “I was deeply troubled by what I saw. Tiffany Haddish - who starred with Pinkett Smith in 2017’s Girls Trip (produced, like the Oscars, by Will Packer) - said that if you know the targets of your punchline, “you should run that joke by them first,” adding that she supported Smith’s defense of his wife. For a show that got only 10 million viewers last year, this will likely turn that around.” “I will tell you this,” he said, “it was good for the Oscars. Host Wanda Sykes declined to comment while Bill Maher said he was still thinking about how to respond. Many bold-faced names copped to needing more time to process what they had witnessed. Such is Oscar night in Los Angeles where there’s no shortage of conversation topics after the big show but due to slap-gate, it carried on with a heaping dose of drama. “We are really excited for you, Will, I love you.”Īs for Smith, he was unfazed by the controversy, telling THR, “It’s been a beautiful night.” Beautiful … and chaotic. (He pulled double duty, also DJing Guy Oseary’s party where, coincidentally, Chris Rock closed out the night). We celebrate each other,” said the superstar DJ, referring to his pandemic phenomenon series that he started on Instagram. “When I started Club Quarantine, Will Smith sent me water, he sent everything. D-Nice even paused the music at one point to give Smith a shout-out, encouraging everyone to throw hands in the air. The 53-year-old rapped along as “Gettin’ Jiggy With It,” “Miami” and “Summertime” blared through the speakers while his wife, their children and stars like Lupita Nyong’o, Lashana Lynch and Thuso Mbedu danced around him. and offered an impromptu performance from the middle of an epic dance circle that formed as DJ D-Nice spun three of Smith’s biggest hits.

Smith took over VF’s Bacardi Rum-fueled dancefloor at 12:15 a.m.

The answer turned out to be a resounding yes as the freshly-minted best actor Oscar winner - who released a full-throated apology Monday afternoon (“I was out of line and I was wrong) - not only turned up, he turned out.


Smith make an appearance on the party circuit after shocking the world by slapping Chris Rock on the Dolby stage for a jab at wife Jada Pinkett-Smith? “Will Smith is here,” texted a source after midnight from inside the Vanity Fair Oscar party, answering a burning question that had been on the minds of many: Will Mr. Billie Eilish, Finneas and Questlove Courtesy of Alex J.
