Heidi Klum’s giant hand and two Dolly Partons: the best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2026

Updated 2 Nov 2026, 12:54 · First published 2 Nov 2026

Heidi Klum turned herself into a giant severed hand, Lizzo and Rita Ora both went as Dolly Parton, and Lily Allen poked fun at her own ticket sales. Here are the celebrity Halloween costumes everyone was talking about this weekend.

Heidi Klum, the queen of Halloween

Klum’s costumes are always the main event, and this year she became a huge severed hand modelled on her own left hand, complete with red nails, rings, veins and exposed tendons. It reportedly took around six hours to put on.

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The music stars

• Lizzo recreated a 1970s Dolly Parton look, and so did Rita Ora.
• Harry Styles opened his Madison Square Garden show as Elvis, then changed into his 2010 X Factor audition outfit.
• Lily Allen dressed as a Ticketmaster seat map covered in blue dots, joking about her US tour: “Never beating the allegations. #bluedotfever.”
• Wolf Alice went as the vampires from The Lost Boys, and Yungblud was a classic vampire.
• Olivia Rodrigo wore a Marie Antoinette-inspired look and a skeleton dress on stage in Ohio.
• Perrie Edwards was Cruella de Vil, and Sabrina Carpenter was Penny Pingleton from Hairspray.

Pop culture tributes

Zendaya copied Halle Berry’s look from the 2000 X-Men premiere, Paris Hilton recreated Britney Spears’ famous 2001 VMAs performance, snake included, and Keke Palmer dressed as Janet Jackson in the Scream video while her son went as Michael Jackson. Janelle Monáe went all out with two prosthetic-heavy characters.

Sources: NME, BBC News. Photo: Halloween pumpkins, Carly Lesser & Art Drauglis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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