Keith McNally issues groveling U-turn as he admits Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos look stunning at Met Gala

New York City restauranteur Keith McNally made an about-face with Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez at the Met Gala on Monday night, praising the couple’s ensemble.

McNally said he faced backlash for posting photos of the Amazon founder and his wife-to-be Lauren Sanchez, where he called her “repulsive.”

However, on Monday he took another look at the couple and praised their outfits at the famous gala.

“Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez make their Met Gala debut tonight looking like a million bucks,” McNally wrote on his infamous Instagram page.

“It never feels good when reality doesn’t fit your story, but I have to admit that Bezos and Sánchez both looked beautiful and very beautiful tonight.”

Some of McNally’s regular readers wondered what they had done with the usually salty restauranteur.

One follower wondered out loud in the comments section, “Did they threaten you or something?”

‘[K]Blink when you’re being held hostage,” another joked.

Another wondered if McNally was actually complimenting the couple, given Bezos’ vast wealth.

“Isn’t it an insult to a billionaire to say they look like a million bucks?”

Balthazar’s owner posted a seemingly unprovoked series of photos of the couple on April 15, along with the caption: “Does anyone else find Jeff Bezos’ new wife – Lauren Sanchez – ABSOLUTELY disgusting?”

‘What an ugly and damned smug looking bunch they make. Is this what having $1 trillion does to people?”

On Sunday, McNally called out people who spoke in Sanchez’s defense, including her famous friends.

“While 90 percent of the 3,000 comments I received on my Sanchez post were light-hearted and funny — and along the lines of the post — the comments I received from the wives of other billionaires were not funny and weird,” McNally said.

“The funniest one was from comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s wife (whom I adore) – Jessica Seinfeld. Seinfeld must have been embarrassed by her comment because she quickly deleted it.”

‘Here’s part of it: “THIS POST IS A REFLECTION OF YOUR REJECTED, MISCELLANEOUS AND HORRIBLE SPIRIT. LAUREN HAS TWICE THE CHARACTER YOU HAVE.”’

‘Twisted, pathetic and horrible.’ The f****r must have read my memoirs,” he said.

He then issued a half-hearted apology, dragging down those who criticized him for commenting on Sánchez’s appearance.

“Of course it’s wrong to criticize someone you don’t know – sorry Hitler – especially if he or she is as healthy and natural as Sánchez looks in the photo above,” said McNally.

The former TV presenter, 54, stepped onto the red carpet without her fiancé on her arm, opting to walk alone in front of the cameras at the glittering gala, where she put on an incredible show in a custom-made Oscar de la Renta dress.

Ultimately, the pair were photographed together, which McNally ruled on his judgment.

But while the dress itself was indeed eye-catching, even more breathtaking was the enormous new diamond Lauren wore on her wedding finger, a huge pear-shaped design that dwarfed even the giant stone that Bezos proposed with in 2023. .

Meanwhile, her dress still managed to attract a lot of attention.

The strapless dress, designed to look like ‘shattered glass’, perfectly accentuated Lauren’s enviable figure, with the voluminous skirt flowing around her as she walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum and entered the event.

While the top of the dress was relatively simple, featuring a black bustier with a strapless sweetheart neckline, the skirt was covered in intricate floral patterns that looked a lot like a garden mosaic – in keeping with this year’s dress code, The Garden of Time. .

The award-winning journalist wore a striking black, sheer, figure-hugging dress to the event, despite the fact that Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is reportedly not fond of the ensembles she typically wears.

DailyMail.com reported last week that the expectant Mrs. Bezos could only attend the $350,000-per-table ball if the Vogue editor had a say in what she wears.

An insider recently told Anna’s biographer Amy Odell that the famously demanding editor knows Lauren has “bad taste” and would like to personally help her choose a dress.

Lauren is notorious for wearing skin-tight and skin-bearing ensembles that leave little to the imagination.

“Anna is not always personally involved in what guests wear,” the author wrote, adding that she worked with Lauren to choose between custom designs from the classically stylish Oscar de la Renta and two other as-yet-unnamed designers.

Wintour (and McNally) are apparently not alone in her criticism of the way Lauren dresses, as broadcaster Megyn Kelly recently said she “looked like a whore” in Milan.

McNally, the owner of popular New York City hotspots Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern and Morandi, has previously picked several feuds with celebrity patrons of his restaurants.