Hello and welcome to In The Limelight, Vanity Fair's Entertainment and Pop Culture Podcast.

I'm Josh Duboff, Vanity Fair Senior Writer, and I'm here with Julie Miller, Vanity Fair's senior Hollywood writer.

On In The Limelight, we analyze the ins and outs of pop culture, entertainment, and celebrity

from the past week, from the Kardashians to Kate Middleton and everything in between.

On this week's episode, we're going to talk all about Julie's exploits and pursuits and adventures

in Cannes. She's actually in Cannes right now as we record.

Right, and Josh also reached a real milestone for this podcast. She's actually in Cannes right now as we record. Right. And Josh also reached a real

milestone for this podcast. He met up with Kim Kardashian, one of the patron saints, for a wide

ranging conversation. And Josh went to Rihanna's Metball Party. Josh, how was it? I want to hear

everything, including what you wore and how you pre-gamed.

It was a very interesting night. It was the Metball on Monday. So I went, I was kind of obviously like everyone, I think, watching to see all the different, you know, looks online. We were writing some posts and covering the event.

And then I went out to Rihanna's party, which was supposed to start at 11 p.m.

So that means the Metball was kind of early.

I think the red carpet ended around 8.30 or 9 this year.

And I, you know, raced home. I wasn't

sure what to wear to Rihanna's afterparty. It's a hard one to dress for. I was hoping I would have

some sort of bedazzled cross or interesting, you know, something to fit the theme, which was, you know,

heavenly bodies and, you know, there was a religious theme this year from the Metball.

So I wanted something that was going to help me blend in with everyone else, as if I could ever blend in with Rihanna and company.

But I ended up just wearing, like, a suit essentially, which is probably like overdressed, honestly, for the vibe of the party.

But I got there and Julie, I'm sure you've had a similar experience i got there at 11 p.m. you know thinking that you know i was like

eager you know eager to be like be there right when everything started riana did not get there

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