Behold: The Campiest Beauty Looks at 2019’s Met Gala

Beauty and fashion lovers best be prepared because this year’s Met Gala might—and we’re not just saying this—yield the most mind-blowing exhibit of looks to date. Following in the otherworldly footsteps of last year’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination,” this year’s attendees are encouraged to go to exaggerated, over-the-top lengths to comply with the 2019 theme “Camp: Notes on Fashion.”

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay defining camp as the “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,” this year’s gala will (appropriately) be hosted by Harry Styles and Lady Gaga, and the entire event is being sponsored by Gucci. We’re anticipating lots of color, lots of sparkle, and lots and lots of glamour.

A highly anticipated focus on fashion is the exhibit’s signature, but no look would ever be complete without the expert application of smoldering beauty accents—the necessary makeup, hair pieces, and accessories required to trip celebrated couture over the edge. In fact, historically speaking, we’d argue attendees’ beauty looks sometimes exceed the fashion. Beauty editor bias? Perhaps, but we’ll let you digest the artistry below and decide for yourself. Keep scrolling to see the best exceedingly campy beauty looks we witnessed on the 2019 Met Gala red carpet.

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Sylvester Stallone Says Conor McGregor ‘Absolutely’ Deserves to Own Part of the UFC

It’s no secret that Conor McGregor has moved to a place where he has more interest in owning part of the UFC than fighting in his weight class. He’s been characteristically frank about it.

Now Sylvester Stallone, one of the most noted stakeholders in the organization, says he believes The Notorious One has a case for getting a big piece of that bloody pie.

Asked by TMZ stringers if McGregor deserved “equity” in the UFC, Stallone responded, “Absolutely.” 

Hit with the follow-up question, “Would you give him a little piece of yours?” Stallone said, “Of course. I got an extra room in the house.”

Told McGregor would love to hear about his opinion, Stallone simply said, “It’s true.”

For Stallone this might have been a way to express respect for a gifted (if troubled) fighter who has huge name recognition and maybe some business acumen. But when TMZ caught up with UFC boss Dana White in March, he wasn’t into it.

“That’s never gonna happen,” White told TMZ in the video above. He also said that while he’s “never had a bad conversation” with McGregor, they haven’t seriously discussed the Irishman having that kind of stake. 

But, said White, “If you wanted to buy into the UFC right now, the valuation is pretty huge.” 

For now, McGregor will probably have to stick with his massively popular Irish whiskey and and the oceans of money left over from his fight purses. And the promise of a room at Sly Stallone’s. 

Meanwhile, the former Rocky star also recently weighed in on McGregor’s loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov.

“I think he lost last time because he got resentful, he got prideful, he got arrogant,” Stallone recently said of McGregor’s fight with Khabib. 

“He walked right up to that gentleman and he just got smashed in the face when he could have been defensive. There was no Plan B. Not even a Plan A minus.”

Maybe McGregor should put Stallone in his corner for his inevitable comeback fight. 

Lucky Bettor Wins $147,000 at the Kentucky Derby Thanks to Maximum Security’s Disqualification

After leading the way during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby and crossing the finish line first, the sudden shocking disqualification of Maximum Security for interference ended with 65-1 long shot Country House being declared the winner.

This unusual event meant that one man who bet on Country House, Rick Broth, won $47,000 on his bets as well as an extra $100,000 for winning a high-stakes handicapping challenge called the Kentucky Derby Betting Championship.

“I went from being the biggest loser that ever lived to a great story,” Broth told Yahoo! Sports. “I couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I’ve been taken down 100 times at the track for big money, so to be put up is just unbelievable.”

Another man also won big when he bet a humble $8 on Country House and walked away with $78,000—a true betting “miracle.” 

The gambler—who remains unnamed—bet two $4 superfectas that paid $51,400 each ($39,065 after taxes) at The Mirage while watching the race with his mother.

“It was a miracle,” Scott Shelton, a shift manager at the Race & Sports Book at The Mirage, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He must’ve been a saint in a previous life running into buildings to get babies or something for everything to happen for him to cash those tickets.

“I don’t know if anyone else in the country bet $4 to win that super,” he added. “To do it basically straight and have a horse come down so he can win, that was a miracle.”

But fortune wasn’t so kind to those who bet on Maximum Security, with more than $42 million reportedly lost from the disqualification. 

On the bright side, Maximum Security’s owner Gary West ultimately admitted to the foul that caused the DQ on the Today Show. Not that he sounded happy about it.

He said:

I obviously saw the horse move out, but in the Kentucky Derby where you’ve got 20 horses, and you shouldn’t have 20 horses in the Kentucky Derby.

Churchill Downs, because they’re a greedy organization, has, rather than 14 horses like you have in the Kentucky Oaks, the Breeder’s Cup, every other race in America, just because they can make more money, they’re willing to risk horses’ lives and people’s lives to do that. I’m not a fan of that. I think they ought to have 14 like every other race.

But yes, I saw the horse move out. Every Kentucky Derby you could sit down two or three or four horses if you wanted to, because it’s like a rodeo out there.

Congrats to those who won big.