Why Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Are Skipping the 2025 Met Gala

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds won’t be at tonight’s Met Gala. The couple’s plans were revealed in March by multiple outlets, including TMZ. On March 21, a source told Us Weekly that the news is actually not surprising, saying, “She’s not a Kardashian that goes every year.”

Another source gave People similar intel, saying, “Blake and Ryan haven’t gone since 2022, when they were co-chairs, and they will not be in attendance this year.”

The couple did serve as co-hosts at the 2022 Met Gala alongside Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda. That gala celebrated the museum exhibit’s “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” theme and its “Gilded Glamour” dress code. For the event, Lively wore a Versace gown with a reversible train she revealed on the Metropolitan Museum’s steps.

The colors of the gown were meant to conjure the Statue of Liberty’s copper and green patina, according to an interview she did with La La Anthony during the Vogue livestream.

Lively has been a frequent attendee of the Met Gala; she and Reynolds made their debut as a married couple at the 2014 event. They were back in 2017, and in 2018, Lively attended by herself.

Lively has been promoting her new film Another Simple Favor with her husband. They attended its New York City premiere on April 27:

The 2025 Met Gala theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” was announced in October 2024, along with a dress code described as “Tailored for You,” in a “nod to the exhibition’s focus on menswear.”

The show itself “presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style from the 18th century to the present through an exploration of the concept of dandyism,” and is inspired by guest curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

Co-chairs this year include Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams, with LeBron James serving as an honorary chair.