An Italian model revealed he was fired from his job at this year’s Met Gala because his rugged looks overshadowed stars like Kylie Jenner.
Eugenio Casnighi, 26, who worked as a presenter at the museum’s two previous events, indicated in a new TikTok video that organizers disinvited him from Monday’s party after his beauty was the talk of the gala. 2023.
“I just got fired from the Met Gala,” Casnighi’s video begins, before showing a photo of him alongside Kylie Jenner at the 2023 gala.
‘Remember me?’ she asks as she points to the picture.
Eugenio Casnighi was disinvited from the Met Gala after his stunning appearance overshadowed Kylie Jenner’s during last year’s event.
Casnighi worked as a presenter at the 2023 Met Gala, during which his rugged appearance quickly caught people’s attention.
The clip then cuts to a flashback to last year’s event, hosted by Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour, where Emma Chamberlain interviews Blackpink’s Jennie Kim.
Casnighi is standing in the background doing his job, but the person who recorded the interview was apparently surprised by his good looks.
The camera moves away from Chamberlain and Kim and focuses on Casnighi’s face.
They were images that went viral with a text that appeared on the screen that said: ‘Trying to concentrate on Emma interviewing Jennie but…’
Casnighi, who worked for the Met Gala as a model and presenter during 2022 and 2023, said he had previously been unable to attract all the attention because he was under a confidentiality agreement.
“It’s pretty funny,” the model said, “they fired me so now I can say whatever I want.”
Casnighi revealed that he was supposed to return this year, but was surprised to discover earlier that he is not welcome, even though he was confirmed to attend a month ago.
Event organizers said Casnighi was to blame for all the attention.
“They blamed me,” the model said. ‘They said, “You made it about yourself, so we don’t want to work with you anymore.”
“They notified me today that they cut off my access,” he said. “I was fired because I went viral last year.”
Casnighi said he has emails and messages that corroborate his claims.
Speaking to DailyMail.com on Saturday after posting the video, Casnighi revealed what it was like to be part of the coveted event.
He revealed that at the last two Met Galas, a mystery celebrity “got in trouble because he started smoking in the tent in front of the stairs.”
“That’s not allowed,” Casnighi explained. But this person didn’t care. “They are very famous, so they can do whatever they want,” he added, without revealing who the celebrity was.
On his TikTok, the Italian model revealed that the Gala fired him from working on this year’s event just three days before schedule.
The Italian model said that the organizers asked the celebrity to stop smoking.
In response, Casnighi said the celebrity responded: ‘No, what are you going to do about it?’
In his experience working at the event, Casnighi found everyone to be friendly.
While he didn’t say that any of the guests “have been rude to him,” he revealed that when celebrities first arrive, they aren’t sure who is working the event and who will be attending.
‘I don’t wear a name tag, so at first they don’t know if I’m an employee. And when I realize I’m working there… some people completely change,’ she said.
‘In a way they disappear. They stop talking to me and start talking to the guests themselves.’
At last year’s gala, an interview between Emma Chamberlain and Jennie Kim quickly went viral after the cameraman was distracted by Casnighi’s spectacular beauty.
The camera’s gaze darted away from Chamberlain and Kim and stopped on Casnighi.
Referencing last year’s event, he says he expected to work with Kylie Jenner all night as ordered, with duties that included getting the reality star “whatever she needed,” but is disappointed by the decision to remove him from the event. program. he carpet, with only two days notice.
“It’s funny because the Met Gala and the company I’m not going to mention… want models to work on the red carpet,” she told her fans on TikTok.
‘They want people to be noticed. They literally told me “we chose you because we like you more than other people.”
“But when people took pictures of the real celebrity, like Kylie Jenner, and I was standing next to her, of course I ended up in the photo.”
The changing appearances of Jenner and her sister Kim Kardashian over the years have sparked speculation that they have reconstructed their faces and bodies with plastic surgeries.
Casnighi told DailyMail.com that he ran into Jenner at a party in Brooklyn after the event and that she “could have worked a little harder.”
“I was invited there,” Casnighi said of the party. ‘In that case, he was speaking to her as a guest. It was something very different. I wasn’t working for her.
‘I have to say, when I first met her at the Met Gala last year… she looked incredible.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a natural look, but she never denied that she had work done.”
Casnighi added that he “supports” surgery “if he feels better about himself.”
“I still think she’s beautiful,” he said of Jenner.
In an exclusive interview with Mailonline, Casnighi revealed that a celebrity, whose name he did not want to reveal, tried to smoke a cigarette inside the Met Gala tent.
Casnighi said that while he wouldn’t call Kylie Jenner’s beauty “natural looking,” he still thinks “she’s beautiful.” She appears in the photo of her with Kylie and her sister Kim, who is also rumored to have reconstructed her face and body with cosmetic surgery several times.
Viewers of his online update quickly rushed to the hunk’s defense.
‘They can’t stand your beauty that goes viral. It will DEFINITELY happen again,” gushed one TikTok user.
One person was confused by the organizers’ frustration, commenting, “It confuses me that that’s not a good thing.” If you draw attention to the event, doesn’t that benefit the company?
Casnighi no longer has a confidentiality agreement with Met Gala organizers and is now free to discuss his dismissal.
“They hate you because you look perfect,” wrote another.
“Now we are going to state that you are invited as a GUEST of a designer,” said one user.
At the end of the video, Casnighi said he will continue to shed light on his firing.
“I can say a lot more, because legally I can now say whatever I want.”
