Matt Rogers addresses viral Jamie Lee Curtis red carpet moment: ‘It’s crazy’
Jamie Lee Curtis, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers went viral at Las Culturistas Culture Awards. (JC Olivera/Maya Dehlin Spach/Getty)
Jamie Lee Curtis, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers went viral at Las Culturistas Culture Awards. (JC Olivera/Maya Dehlin Spach/Getty)
Fire Island star and Las Culturistas co-host Matt Rogers has broken his silence on a viral red carpet interaction between him, Bowen Yang and Jamie Lee Curtis, calling the discourse “crazy”.
It all started on the purple carpet of the 2025 Las Culturistas Culture Awards, a ceremony dedicated to giving accolades to the entire sphere of pop culture, hosted by podcast co-hosts Matt Rogers (Fire Island) and Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked).
In the video from Vulture, which hit the internet 20 July, Rogers and Yang are doing their elite Elle Woods and Erin Brokovich impressions, respectively, before Lee Curtis approaches the pair and tells them to “bring the whole f**king thing down.”
Yang then proclaimed: “You’re gonna hate the show,” and Rogers added, “We’ll sit you in the back,” and, referring to Curtis’ energy: “Hey, maybe you could bring it up.”
The internet, as it so often does, had a lot to say about the clip, with many calling Lee Curtis a “Karen” for the interaction.
Rogers, in an Instagram Story, has broken his silence on the ‘clash’, calling media pickup of the interaction “crazy”.
“Anything that happens on the Las Culturistas Culture Awards red carpet — or purple carpet, as it were — is unserious. You cannot make it serious,” Rogers told the camera.
“I can’t express how fun it is to watch it get, like, real media coverage. It’s crazy. It’s part of the joke. But you cannot… Please don’t start something between us and Jamie Lee Curtis when there’s nothing there, you guys.”
He added that this would be the pair’s “only comment” on the matter, and concluded: “That was the first time we were meeting, and she was being funny, and we were being funny back. She came out and brought a lot of energy, and we’re grateful to her. We’re grateful to everyone. So, please, it’s not that serious; it’s the Culture Awards. I love you guys so much.”
Curtis is known to be an LGBTQ+ ally; she has regularly made appearances at events with her trans daughter and called for action in the face of Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
The Las Culturistas Culture Awards 2025 ceremony airs on Tuesday, August 5, on Bravo. The telecast will be available for streaming on Peacock the next day.
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