{"id":73041,"date":"2026-05-04T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/why-the-bezos-backed-met-gala-is-so-controversial-the-latest\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:56:32","slug":"why-the-bezos-backed-met-gala-is-so-controversial-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/why-the-bezos-backed-met-gala-is-so-controversial-the-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Bezos-backed Met Gala is so controversial | The Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the grandest and glitziest event in the fashion calendar, but this year\u2019s Met Gala has sparked backlash thanks to its new honorary chairs, Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos. The billionaire Amazon founder\u2019s involvement has led to boycotts and criticism of the event. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian\u2019s fashion and lifestyle editor, Morwenna Ferrier<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/video\/2026\/may\/04\/why-the-bezos-backed-met-gala-is-so-controversial-the-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the grandest and glitziest event in the fashion calendar, but this year\u2019s Met Gala has sparked backlash thanks to its new honorary chairs, Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos. The billionaire Amazon founder\u2019s involvement has led to boycotts and criticism of the event. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian\u2019s fashion and lifestyle editor, Morwenna &#8230; <a title=\"Why the Bezos-backed Met Gala is so controversial | The Latest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/why-the-bezos-backed-met-gala-is-so-controversial-the-latest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why the Bezos-backed Met Gala is so controversial | The Latest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}