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Monday night was the 2025 Met Gala—the place where celebrities and models and people who are famous for simply having symetrical faces—all gather to dress like assholes to remind us regular folk we are less than. But my guy Timothée Chalamet had to skip this year’s festivities and had a great reason as to why.
Instead of brooding on the red carpet with his bae, Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet was at the crib watching the Knicks Celtics Game 1—where the Knicks had a historic second-half 20-point comeback to defeat Boston and take the lead in their second-round series.
Chalamet posted several photos of himself watching the Knicks on his Instagram story—while Vera Wang haunted the halls and Chance The Rapper tried to play freshman dorm icebreakers at the afterparty—but then you try to run to the bathroom to kill time/think of an excuse of why you have to change tables, you’re either interrupting a 2011 Buzfeed-style celebrity group photo or you have to help Charli XCX find where she dropped her bag.
This is why Timothee Chalamet is the GOAT.
He’s a perennial Oscar nominee, dating a billionaire and instead of obsessing over himself—getting strange boccal fat surgeries to stiffen up his jawline—and playing on red carpets to make himself feel important, he’s at the crib watching the Knicks shock the NBA world to steal Game 1 from the Eastern Conference favorites.
You know what? I’m gonna go watch that Bob Dylan movie again. Chalamet deserves it.
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