Jodie Turner-Smith Debuts Striking Blonde Look at 2024 Met Gala

Turner-Smith, 37, rocked placing platinum blonde straight hair for the primary time as she stole the highlight on the star-studded occasion at New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Monday, Might 6.

The actress and mannequin donned a glamorous white costume by Burberry adorned with intricate embroidered flowers and paired with a sheer, feathered cape that flowed behind her.

The Queen & Slim star, who rubbed shoulders on the occasion with the likes of Zendaya and Jennifer Lopez, complimented her blonde locks with a winged eyeliner and eyeshadow look and dangling earrings.

She accessorized with a purple flower, purple bangles and a cross necklace.

And because the star confidently rocked her look on the crimson carpet earlier than a slew of cameras, there was no probability of a probably awkward run-in together with her ex Joshua Jackson and his girlfriend, Lupita Nyong’o, as each have been absent from the occasion.

Turner-Smith filed for divorce from Jackson, 45, in September 2023, citing irreconcilable variations as the rationale for the break up. She later revealed that she determined to “make a transfer” for her personal sake.

“Typically issues we actually need to work simply don’t find yourself working,” she advised the U.Ok.’s The Instances in February. “And that’s OK. Crucial factor is that you just select what’s healthiest for you and your loved ones and positively your kids.”

She continued, “There are such a lot of completely different moments in our life the place we have a look at ourselves and say, ‘Who am I and am I being true to that?’ If the reply is not any, then you need to make a transfer as a result of I consider that there are seen scars from staying in locations that aren’t good for us. They usually don’t simply have an effect on us, they have an effect on everyone round us.”

She continued: “The bravest factor on the earth is to acknowledge when one thing’s not working and to make a transfer, and I all the time need to set that type of instance for my daughter.”

Turner-Smith added that there’s “simply as a lot love and pleasure because it has all the time been” for the sake of their 3-year-old daughter. The pair wed secretly in December 2019 and welcomed a daughter one yr later.

Final December, on the heels of their respective breakups, Jackson and Nyong’o, 41, began relationship. “Joshua and Lupita have been relationship for a really brief whereas now. They’re specializing in preserving their relationship beneath the radar as a lot as doable,” a supply advised Us Weekly on the time.

The insider added: “Though it’s solely been just a few weeks, they have been buddies earlier than relationship so that they have a extremely strong basis for a relationship. Issues are very new however going rather well to date.”

Since then, Nyong’o has revealed that she won’t be overtly claiming her new relationship. The star’s very public romance together with her ex musician Selema Masekela resulted in heartbreak final yr, and in an interview with Porter journal this February, the star stated she’s going to now not be flaunting any new relationships.

She stated it was “very, very sage of me” to by no means be public about her earlier relationships on social media. “I’m going again to these days, by the way in which,” she added.

Neither Turner-Smith nor Jackson have publicly addressed his and Nyong’o’s romance.