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A handful of stars from HBO’s The White Lotus made a splash on Monday night by stepping out at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to attend the Met Gala. Lisa, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood were among the high-profile Hollywood stars invited to fashion’s biggest night.

“I’m terrified because it’s my first Met,” Wood told Vogue live stream co-hosts Teyana Taylor and Ego Nwodim while standing alongside Schwarzenegger, who is practically a Met Gala vet at this point. Goggins also attended the Met for his first time, an event that comes just days ahead of his outing as host of Saturday Night Live. Meanwhile, Lisa proved to be in good company by attending the Met Gala on the same night as her Blackpink colleagues Rosé and Jennie.

The Met Gala serves as the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

For its 2023 Beauty Issue, The Hollywood Reporter asked every artist on its 2023 Glam Squads list what their preferred social media network is to promote their work — and nearly every person named Instagram as their No. 1 platform, followed by TikTok. “Instagram serves as my portfolio,” says groomer Amy Komorowski. Adds makeup artist Jenna Nicole, “Instagram is the most authentic way for me to share my work and connect with clients, brands and a community of people that are interested in makeup.”

It’s also simply a giant when it comes to numbers, as more than 2 billion active users a month share around 2 billion reels daily through DMs. (The platform’s parent company Meta is also a sponsor of THR’s Oct. 25 Beauty Dinner honoring the top glam squads in Hollywood.)

Eva Chen — vp fashion partnerships at Meta, who also is a former beauty editor and has 2.5 million Instagram followers of her...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August issue of the magazine.

Hello, Upper East Siders! You know you missed them. The hotly anticipated Gossip Girl sequel — a fresh take on the debauched YA series-turned-cw megahit — is finally here. Premiering July 8th on HBO Max, the show is set in the same world of über-privileged and über-troubled Manhattan prep-school teens as the Og iteration, only this time there’s a notably diverse cast and, as showrunner Joshua Safran promised on Twitter,...