Best and worst-dressed stars on the 2018 ARIA Awards red carpet
Sophie Monk brought a very unexpected date and one star got it so, so wrong: It’s all on show on the ARIA Awards red carpet in Sydney.
The ARIA Awards are upon us for another year, and what could possibly ruin the party for Australian music’s brightest stars?
Erm, how about the worst November Sydney storms in three decades?
Thankfully (or disappointingly, depending on your desire to watch celebs trudge along a wet red carpet like drowned rats) the once-in-a-generation torrential downpours have eased since this morning, with stars arriving on a dry red carpet at Sydney’s The Star ahead of tonight’s ceremony.
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Homegrown country star Keith Urban’s hosting the event, and he’s brought some serious star power to proceedings in the form of his wife, Nicole Kidman.
We’ll see performances from the likes of homegrown boy band 5 Seconds Of Summer, visiting pop star Rita Ora and Hall of Fame inductee Kasey Chambers.
Also set to perform: Amy Shark, who tops the leaderboard with an incredible nine nominations. Expect her to go home with at least a few trophies tonight.
RED CARPET HIGHLIGHTS
Actual star power! Nicole and Keith are here!
Oh man. Jess Mauboy, you are an A+ pop star and an actual queen, so it pains me to rag on you for teaming a pinstripe dress with what appear to be oversized meringue arm floaties.
She doesn’t have much luck on the ARIAs red carpet, does she.
Model and partner to Kyle Sandilands, Imogen Anthony, has turned up in a darling collection of ribbons from the ‘Sassy Feisty Bimbo Bitch’ collection:
Sophie Monk, I’m sorry, you’re not allowed to attend any more ARIA Awards until you commit to a full-blown Bardot reunion. I don’t make the rules.
And while Sophie’s just gone public with her new boyfriend, marketing exec Joshua Gross, she didn’t bring him as her date tonight — instead arriving arm-in-arm with her dad Andrew:
Look, we’re all adults here, so I’m going to give this to you straight. Stylist Fleur Egan appears to have come as a giant vagina:
Rita Ora is in the house, looking about as excited as you could reasonably expect any international pop star attending the ARIAs to be:
Sure, you could ask what on earth early noughties Case of the Ex R&B songstress Mya is doing here. I think the more pertinent question is where were the invites for Ashanti, Nivea and Blu Cantrell.
Chloe Bayliss’ outfit could stop traffic — literally:
Insert deafening teenage screams here, it’s 5 Seconds of Summer!
My My My, it’s Troye Sivan:
Amy Sheppard and Emma Sheppard from the band — you guessed it — Sheppard are serving Year 10 formal realness:
Singer Montaigne turned up two years ago with “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT” written on her chest — this year it’s “STOP ADANI” on her cheeks.
“For the rest of my life I will probably eject at least three loads out of my butt every week,” Montaigne said during her bizarre Best Breakthrough Artist speech two ARIAs ago. I’m still thinking about it.
Is Samantha Jade’s hair deliberately wet-look or did she just get caught in the rain? Answers on the back of a postcard please.
How embarrassing! Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles from dance duo Peking Duk turned up wearing the same outfit. You’d think they would’ve texted before leaving home.
Sarah Ellen’s smizing so hard she’s giving me a migraine:
You might think Barry Southgate’s suit blending in with the media wall is an unfortunate sartorial faux-pas, but joke’s on you — he’s perfectly camouflaged against any passing apex predators:
Vera Blue’s tux situation is very much business on top, party on the bottom:
Havana Brown sure knows how to work a red carpet:
Alex the Astronaut (note: not an actual astronaut) is a vision in velvet:
Here’s woman of the night, Amy Shark (note: not an actual shark)
Vance Joy, Very Handsome:
I can never remember whether Jess and Matt Price are a married couple or siblings. Or both.
Son of Richard, Christian (Prince) Wilkins and his partner Andrew Kelly. No, he doesn’t have some sort of skin virus, those are actually Hello Kitty tatts all over his arms and face:
That skirt … suddenly I’m craving a Licorice Allsort:
The Loop host (and rumoured new girlfriend of Dr Chris Brown) went for disco glam:
DJ Helena Ellis is serving a real J-Lo turn of the century vibe:
You might be asking why Beau Ryan’s at the ARIAs, which means you forgot he once released a single with Justice Crew. I wish I’d forgotten.
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