Queen Latifah Steps Out With Partner Eboni Nichols at 2024 Met Gala

Queen Latifah built her Met Gala debut with her longtime associate, Eboni Nichols, by her aspect.

Latifah, 54, was all smiles strolling the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Town with Nichols on Monday, May perhaps 6. The pair were dressed in stunning Thom Browne looks, with Latifah sporting a shimmering gown with orange floral decals and assertion black coat with white-and-black trim.

Nichols, for her portion, complemented the Equalizer star’s ensemble in a black square-neck costume, black-and-white structured plaid coat and a black polka dot lace facial area veil. Significantly like the detailing on Latifah’s robe, Nichols’ dress featured an embroidered crimson rose.

“Eboni asked me out on a day, proper Eb?” Latifah quipped in a crimson carpet job interview with Vogue correspondent Emma Chamberlain, to which Nichols responded, “I was like, ‘We’re going to the Fulfilled ball. Make it happen.’”

Wanting to be the “hero in my household,” Latifah manufactured her partner’s date night time request appear genuine with many thanks to a Satisfied invite from Thom Browne.

When questioned whether or not they got all set for fashion’s most important night time jointly, Nichols claimed they received glammed in the “same house but separate.” Latifah went on to joke, “Especially for two dolls, we require all of that room and all of that area.”

The pair’s Achieved Gala physical appearance will come two times right after Latifah hit the stage at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Pageant on Saturday, May possibly 4. “We had a huge 90-minute display there and we flew in, but we experienced fittings just before that and we dad or mum in between that,” Latifah described on the Met red carpet. “And then, we get the 4 fittings and then below we are.”

Chamberlain went on to question irrespective of whether the pair’s son, Rebel, was “stoked” to see their breathtaking looks. “He does not even know,” Latifah joked. “He’s just, like, in his content existence. And then we send him films and he’s like, ‘Oh, you glance so remarkable.’ [Eboni] despatched a photo. He’s loving it.”

Nichols additional that Rebel was “very pleased to see us dressed up.” (The duo have kept their child out of the public eye due to the fact reportedly welcoming him in 2019.)

Latifah and Nichols have made a handful of red carpet appearances given that they were linked in 2013. In Might 2023, they stepped out alongside one another in France at the amfAR Cannes Gala and the Aston Martin DB12 start celebration. Nichols was also by Latifah’s side at the 2023 Grammys and the October 2022 premiere of the film Lyle, Lyle Crocodile in NYC.

Irrespective of holding her appreciate daily life and spouse and children lifestyle out of the spotlight, Latifah earlier expressed her wish to start a spouse and children in a March 2016 job interview with E! “I think I’m prepared,” she teased at the time. “I cannot say what God has for me, but you will see. You will see when I’m lugging the infant on the hip that there is actually a youngin close to right here.”