Lucy Hoff

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128 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 27 May

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Today in Focus · Why the Bezos-backed Met Gala is so controversial – The Latest · 4 May 2026 podcast

They have a dinner and they have a dance and they pay an extraordinary amount of money for it.

But they do, big people go, like Kamala Harris went last year.

I mean, she went round, she slipped in the back, but she still went.

And people do say yes to it.

It's hard to say no to Anna.

And I suspect, you know, with Bezos' power and his influence, people will find it hard, well, have probably found it hard to say no to the invite this year as well.

Yeah.

I mean, it's not I don't it's funny because I don't know if he's technically hasn't boycotted it.

He's just declined the invite.

But yes, it's been for decades.

Mayors have gone.

And as I said, lots of politicians do go.

Interestingly, Trump is apparently has been banned since 2017, which is interesting.

So she obviously she does have some integrity there.

But obviously he was a big the Trumps were big kind of they always went.

And there doesn't seem to be much kind of, you know, the sort of crossover between ethics and the net goal doesn't seem to be a kind of, you know, it's not an obvious one.

But yes, Mandani has declined.

And I think it's, you know, it's very smart of him not to go.

Because a few years ago when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went and she wore this sort of beautiful white dress with the words tax, the rich sort of painted on the back of it.

And she obviously was using it as a kind of very canny vote opportunity for her.

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