Hamnet actor Joe Alwyn confirmed that her 2026 Met Gala attendance was not a Shakespearean disaster.
Alwyn, 35, looked dapper in a tailored Valentino suit Rose Forde on Monday, May 4, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute exhibit.
Alwyn commissioned a makeup artist Holly Silius to complete her glamorous, Roman-style look for fashion's biggest night, which follows a “Fashion Is Art” dress code..
“You're going to look at Joe and do a double take because we want him to look really porcelain,” said Silius. Vogue after Alwyn left the Mark Hotel.
Alwyn last attended the Met Gala in 2016, where he was rumored to have reunited with his ex. Taylor Swift. Alwyn and Swift, 36, had been dating for six years before Us Weekly confirmed their separation in April 2023.
“I hope that anyone and everyone can empathize and understand the difficulties that come with the end of a long, loving, and fully committed relationship of over six and a half years,” he told The Times of London June 2024 – his first comment on the breakup. “It's hard to navigate that. What's unusual and unusual in this situation is that, after one week, suddenly the public can see it and foreign countries can measure it.”
Swift and Alwyn broke up in the middle of the pop star The Eras Tour. Then he continued with her Matty Healy, but they called it quits in May 2023. Both splits inspired more than a few tracks on Swift's album. Ministry of Victimized Poets.
“Suffering from Poets “The album, like, takes away everything negative that I've been hearing for two years,” said Swift his The End of an Era documentswhich aired in December 2025. “It was a very difficult time in my life, so the songs reflect that. [and] I feel like I'm nobody. I'm just this big entity that no one sees as a real person, and especially not the men I date.”
Joe Alwyn has been keeping a low profile since his split from Taylor Swift was confirmed in April 2023. While Swift, 34, continued the Eras Tour, enjoyed spending time with friends including Blake Lively, Selena Gomez and Sophie Turner, and started a new romance with boyfriend Travis Kelce, Alwyn, 33, remained a man. […]
He continued, “I broke up twice in the first half of this tour, and that's a lot of breakups actually. The show was the one that gave me purpose and that's what I could use to get out of bed. Touring has never been the hardest thing in my life. Touring has been the thing that has allowed me to find purpose outside of the s*** that was going on in my life, Men will let you down. The Eras Tour I won't.”
Swift started dating the Kansas City Chiefs eventually Travis Kelce summer 2023 and the couple got engaged two years later in August 2025. The couple, who It is said that he is about to tie the knot this summer, she didn't make an appearance at Monday's Met Gala.
