Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds will not be attending the 2025 Met Gala.
An exclusive source confirmed the news to PEOPLE, sharing, “Blake and Ryan haven’t gone since 2022, when they were co-chairs, and they will not be in attendance this year.”
TMZ was the first to report the news.
The theme of the 2025 Met Gala, which will be held on May 5, was previously revealed by Vogue as “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”
Per the outlet, the exhibit draws inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity and will “feature garments, paintings, photographs, and more — all exploring the indelible style of Black men in the context of dandyism, from the 18th century through present day.” Miller will serve as a guest curator for the show with Costume Institute Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton.
The 2022 Met Gala marked Lively’s 10th appearance at the annual fashion event in New York City. That year, she and Reynolds, 48, served as co-chairs alongside Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda,
To honor the event’s “Gilded Glamour” theme, Lively, 37, took the Metropolitan Museum of Art steps in a jaw-dropping Atelier Versace gown, which featured a reversible train. Halfway up the iconic museum steps, the Gossip Girl alum flipped the train of her gown revealing an aqua side that cascaded down behind her.
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As Lively told LaLa Anthony during the Vogue livestream on the red carpet, the colors of the gown were meant to represent the patina aging that copper undergoes over time, nodding to the Statue of Liberty.
Reynolds, meanwhile, kept it classic in a velvet tuxedo and white bow tie.
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Lively previously attended the Met Gala sans Reynolds in 2018, where she channeled the “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” theme in a custom-made halo by Lorraine Schwartz and a custom Versace gown featuring a dramatic train designed for the Met steps.
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The couple appeared at the Gala together in 2017, where they wore coordinating outfits, and made their Met debut in 2014.
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The news that they will not attend the 2025 Met Gala comes amid the couple’s ongoing legal battle surrounding Lively’s movie, It Ends with Us, which premiered in August 2024. In December, Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against director and costar Justin Baldoni and his co-producers.
In response, Baldoni filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR Inc., as well as a lawsuit against The New York Times regarding the outlet’s reporting on Lively’s allegations.
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