Nine celebrities who have boycotted or been banned from the Met Gala

Tina Fey is just one of the stars you’ll never see at the Met Gala after she trashed the event on TV. Who else has been black-listed?

It’s notoriously difficult to score an invitation to the Met Gala, a red-carpet event so lavish and exclusive that even top celebs get snubbed.

And as hard as it is to get on the list — Anna Wintour recently revealed in a Vogue video she will “never, ever” explain how she decides who to invite — it’s just as easy to get pushed off of it.

Big-name attendees — including Tim Gunn and Rachel Zoe — caught blabbing or ragging on the city’s swankiest party have found themselves persona non grata for the next year’s event.

Others, like Tina Fey and Gwyneth Paltrow, have dunked on the ball in the press, effectively black-listing themselves — because, they say, they never want to go back.

Blake Lively at the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018.

Here, the surprisingly star-studded list of former Met Gala guests who are either banned or are boycotting the high-profile Vogue-run affair.

SORRY, YOU’RE NOT ON THE LIST

When asked about why she wouldn’t be attending the gala back in 2017, Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha told The Post, “I don’t know. You’ll have to ask Anna (Wintour) that.” She’d attended a handful of times before but was apparently excluded amid rumours she had beef with that year’s co-chair Katy Perry. A Vogue rep said at the time they didn’t comment on the guest list.

Other cast-offs know exactly what got them exiled.

Former Project Runway guru Tim Gunn once publicly joked about a time he saw Wintour getting carried down the stairs at a fashion show by two sizeable bodyguards. When he refused to retract the statement — per pressure from Vogue — he says he got blackballed: “We’ve had an open war ever since,” he told E!’s Fashion Police.

A not so flattering photo of Tim Gunn with Heidi Klum.

Similarly, superstar stylist Rachel Zoe let loose lips sink any gala dreams.

“Anna Wintour is one of my heroes, but they say that I’m more influential,” she told the New York Times in a 2007 profile, which allegedly prompted the editrix to nix Zoe’s spot at shoe designer Brian Atwood’s table that year.

For some, the punishment fits the crime of simply not being famous enough.

“What has he done lately?” a Vogue staffer says of ’90s heart-throb Josh Hartnett in the 2016 Met Gala documentary, The First Monday in May. Calvin Klein wanted to invite him, but after that, Hartnett didn’t make the cut.

On the other hand, even the most talked-about man on the planet can’t make it past the velvet ropes. When James Corden grilled Wintour on The Late Late Show in 2017 about which former attendee wouldn’t be invited back, she tartly responded: “Donald Trump”.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour arrives for the 2018 Met Gala.

RSVP ‘NO WAY’

Some celebs have even ghosted the gala themselves.

“I had a terrible experience,” singer Demi Lovato told Billboard of her first time attending in 2016. She said getting attitude from another celeb guest — rumoured to be Nicki Minaj — contributed to a night so awful it made the then-sober star want to drink. She confessed she rushed out at 10pm and headed straight to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, still wearing “millions of dollars of diamonds”.

Former One Direction boy-bander Zayn Malik apparently also had an unpleasant evening when he attended the ball that same year.

“It’s not something I would go to,” he told GQ, adding his stylist at the time talked him into it. “I’d rather be sitting at my house, doing something productive … To do the self-indulgent, ‘Look at me, I’m amazing’ thing on the red carpet, it’s not me.”

Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid at the 2016 Met Gala.

Clearly, it’s not for Tina Fey, either.

“It is such a jerk parade,” Fey inimitably told David Letterman of the one time she went to the gala. “Every jerk from every walk of life is there, wearing, like, some stupid thing … I dragged my husband along with me, which I’m still in trouble for.”

She didn’t mince words about her plans for upcoming years: “Clearly, I will never go again.”

Tina Fey at the 2010 Met Gala.

But it’s the rare superstar who can badmouth the gala and then get to return after a cooling-off period.

“I’m never going again,” Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow told USA Today in 2013, just days after that year’s epic party. “It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.”

But leave it to Paltrow to convince Wintour to forgive and forget: The Goop queen, who attended her first gala in 1995, made her triumphant return to the carpet in 2017.

A$AP Rocky and Gwyneth Paltrow at the 2017 Met Gala.

This article originally appeared on The New York Post and was reproduced with permission