Lauren Sánchez Walks the 2024 Met Gala Carpet Solo — Where's Jeff Bezos?

Lauren Sánchez made a splash at her first Met Gala!

The former television correspondent, 54, walked the red carpet at the Monday, May 6, event in a custom Oscar de la Renta gown for the kickoff of the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibit. However, her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, seemed to be missing in action as she made her way up the stairs.

Sánchez stopped to pose for the photographers by herself in the mirrored floral ballgown with a black corset. The Amazon founder, 60, was there to greet her as she reached the top of the staircase.

The reporter has taken some heat recently after restaurateur Keith McNally took to social media to call her "absolutely revolting” and claimed she and her future husband were an "ugly and (expletive) smug-looking couple."

"Is this what having 1000 billion dollars does to people?" the Balthazar owner continued to rant about the power couple.

However, many of Sánchez and Bezos' A-list friends came to their defense. "She’s actually incredibly dynamic, accomplished and kind, and everyone who knows her would say the same," Chrissy Teigen commented on the drama.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle slammed McNally for his rude remarks, calling the helicopter pilot “accomplished, kind, smart and loved" amongst her inner circle. "Social media is fun, but this is not. It is just mean for no reason. If we all took a breath and thought about what it feels like to be mocked and teased, we’d do a lot less of it," the journalist added in her comment.

The restaurant owner later backtracked on his claims. "Joking aside, just because Sánchez may have spent a fortune on plastic surgery doesn’t make her ‘revolting,'” he penned in an Instagram post. "In fact, most of the revolting people I know haven’t spent a penny on plastic surgery.”

"Although 90% of the 3,000 comments I received from my Sánchez post were light and funny — and in the vein of the post — the comments I received from other billionaires' wives were Unfunny and Weird," he wrote in part.

The happy duo hasn't let the ordeal keep them down, as the pair — who got engaged in May 2023 — attended a pre-Met bash at Monse at La Mercerie in New York City on Sunday night.

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Sánchez took to Instagram to show off her toned physique in the corseted lace minidress she rocked during the night out on the town with Bezos.

"This is just the best look. wow 🤩," one fan penned below the sultry post.

"CANNOT WAIT to see you at the met gala!!!!!" a second chimed in.