Dear Gossips,

More and more celebrities are arriving in New York ahead of the Met Gala on Monday. The main character, however, continues to be Beyoncé, naturally. It seems every outlet is posting Beyoncé Met Gala retrospectives, anticipating what she’ll be wearing, what she might be announcing, or not.

As mentioned earlier this week, her publicist Yvette Noel-Schure denied on Twitter that the Met Gala will be the launchpad of act iii. And I’m not sure the BeyHive really believes her. Because there have been updates to Beyonce.com.

Are we clowning? It could just be that the Cowboy Carter merch is out of stock. But the Stevie Nicks video…

Ever since she announced that Renaissance was the first of three acts, a celebration of ballroom and a tribute to its Black and queer origins; followed by Cowboy Carter, a Black reclamation of country music; there has been speculation that act iii would be a recentering of Black artistry in rock. Stevie Nicks is known as the Queen of Rock, the first woman to be inducted twice into the Rock Hall. If there is a trend, a throughline, between all three of Beyoncé’s acts, then Stevie would be joining Grace Jones, Madonna, Dolly Parton, and Linda Martell in that lineage – legendary female artists in the respective genres that Beyoncé has been focusing on which, in totality, basically just amounts to all music. She’s claiming all of it!

As Jason P Frank wrote in his piece about all the Beyoncé buzz in Vulture this week, “It’s a fool’s errand to try and predict Beyoncé’s next move, but that’s also the reason it’s so fun”. We won’t know until we know.

So let’s embark on another fool’s errand… BTS at the Met Gala? Some ARMY are wondering if it might be possible. RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook are in El Paso for two shows Saturday and Sunday. Then it’s three shows in Mexico City starting on Thursday 7 May so, technically, there’s enough time for them to be in New York on Monday. And it’s not like Anna Wintour wouldn’t want them there. Remember when she sidled up to V last year at the Céline show to invite him to Vogue World?

@fimeladotcom Satu lagi pencapaian gemilang datang dari Kim Taehyung, atau yang lebih dikenal sebagai V BTS. Kali ini, sang bintang K-pop menerima undangan eksklusif yang tak main-main, langsung dari sosok legendaris di dunia fashion, Anna Wintour. _ Anna Wintour secara pribadi mengundang V BTS untuk hadir di ajang bergengsi Vogue World yang akan digelar pada 26 Oktober 2025 mendatang. Acara ini rencananya berlangsung di Paramount Pictures Studio Lot, Los Angeles, dan akan menjadi perayaan megah atas pertemuan dua dunia kreatif: film dan fashion. _ Kehadiran V BTS tentu akan menjadi salah satu yang paling dinantikan, mengingat citranya yang ikonis dan selalu tampil standout di berbagai ajang internasional ✨ _ Video source: Vogue #vbts #kimtaehyung #annawintour #vogue #vogueworld #fimelasocmed #fimelaupdate #fimelahariini #fmlhs ♬ original sound - FIMELA

She doesn’t do that with just anyone. And because she made the effort, he obliged. Anna and her team would have seen the effect of V’s attendance on the event – now imagine all seven?

It’s a longshot, they should probably conserve energy. But just as it is with Beyoncé, it’s a fool’s errand to try and predict BTS’s next move, but that’s also the reason it’s fun.

In the probable likelihood that BTS does not attend the Met Gala, there will still be a BTS connection. There are reports that Ahn Hyo-seop, the speaking voice of Jinu in Kpop Demon Hunters, is attending the Met Gala for the first time. Jinu, of course, is the leader of the Saja Boys, inspired by BTS. Hyo-seop is also currently promoting his latest drama on Netflix, Sold Out on You. I’ve watched the first episode so far, hasn’t really grabbed me yet, and I might also be too obsessed with Perfect Crown right now to have any bandwidth for much else. But Hyo-seop already flexed his popularity at the Oscars a couple of months ago. We could see him do the same in New York at the Met Gala.

Yours in gossip, 

Lainey 

Photo credits: Rob Latour/Shutterstock

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