What was supposed to be a press interview focusing on Lana Del Rey’s return to the Met Gala morphed into a viral sensation for a completely unexpected reason: a handsome model that made the internet “thirsty.

The glitz and glamour of the red carpet isn’t ever lost on Lana Del Rey, who has walked the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday in May for the fourth time in a row. For the 2025 Met Gala,

Lana Del Rey wore alligator hair clips in a nod to her husband Jeremy Dufrene, an alligator tour guide, at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday, May 5.