The real reason Selena Gomez decided to skip the gala for the sixth year in a row
Selena Gomez was notably absent from the 2024 MET Gala in New York City on Monday — with her boyfriend, Benny Blanco, also not making an appearance during the big night.
However, a source recently confirmed to People on Tuesday that the Single soon songstress, 31, was simply ‘busy working.’
While she has been spending time in the Big Apple, Gomez — who has ‘talked about marriage and children’ with Blanco — is in the midst of filming the fourth season of Hulu’s Only Murders In The Building.
She has also been putting focus into her own brand, Rare Beauty, and notably attended Rare Beauty’s 3rd Annual Mental Health Summit earlier this month on May 1st.
The record producer, 36, has also been filtering through a busy schedule as well, and recently joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
The Eastside hitmaker also celebrated the launch of his own cookbook titled, Open Wide: A Cookbook For Friends — which officially became available on April 30, just six days before the MET Gala.
Selena last attended the annual festivities that take place on the first Monday in May in 2018.
At the time, the theme for guests to follow had been Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
The former Disney Channel star had donned an off-white gown that contained a sheer, flowy skirt as well as a bedazzled bodice.
However, while talking to Glamour UK in 2022, she labeled the look and her tan as a ‘memorable’ beauty mishap.
‘While I was getting ready for the Met Gala a few years ago, we put on a bit of tanning lotion, and it looked beautiful, but as the night went on it kept getting darker and darker,’ she recalled to the outlet.
‘When I sat down inside the event, I saw a photo of myself, and it looked completely orange. And here I am at this prestigious event. My first thought was, «I have to get out of here!»‘
She also explained to Vogue, ‘I look at a photo of myself when I sit down, and I’m completely orange. I was like, «This is going to be terrible because I’m going to get eaten alive about this.»‘
