--- title: Chrissy Teigen Teases John Legend on 2019 Oscars Red Carpet description: Chrissy Teigen teased husband John Legend, loving pushing him out of her spotlight on the 2019 Oscars red carpet. canonical: https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-25T19:24:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:47.749Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Lovingly Pushed John Legend Out of Her Oscars Red Carpet Moment og:description: Relationship goals og:url: https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc5a44ce644274a/698945d98fd2eeca3135ddc8/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-oscars-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Lovingly Pushed John Legend Out of Her Oscars Red Carpet Moment twitter:description: Relationship goals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc5a44ce644274a/698945d98fd2eeca3135ddc8/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-oscars-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Lovingly Pushed John Legend Out of Her Oscars Red Carpet Moment > Sponsored content. 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The best looks from the 2019 Oscars red carpet._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 25, 2019 7:24 PM UTC  BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend attend the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by George Pimentel/Getty Images) BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend attend the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by George Pimentel/Getty Images) George Pimentel—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 25, 2019 7:24 PM UTC The Academy Awards seem to always provide [a viral moment for Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/4684411/oscars-2017-chrissy-teigen-sleeping-john-legend/) and the [2019 Oscars](http://time.com/5535474/oscars-2019-records/) proved to be no exception. While on the Vanity Fair afterparty’s red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday night, Teigen playfully pushed husband John Legend away, which she noted was because, as she put it in a joking caption on Twitter: “Honestly this is a very important carpet and I do not need interference.” This wasn’t the first time that Teigen’s antics at the Oscars have captured the fancy of the Internet; at the 2017 Academy Awards, she was captured seemingly dozing off during the awards show, while in 2015, Teigen won the hearts of the Internet when she was spotted enthusiastically [eating a hamburger at the Vanity Fair afterparty](https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Chrissy-Teigen-Eating-Burger-Vanity-Fair-Oscars-Party-36937672) and celebrating with Legend, who had just won an Oscar for his song for _Selma_, “Glory.” See Teigen’s hilarious post about the 2019 Oscars red carpet below. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1099919317674602496) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen Lovingly Pushed John Legend Out of Her Oscars Red Carpet Moment","datePublished":"2019-02-25T19:24:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:47.749Z","description":"Relationship goals","url":"https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","awards","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc5a44ce644274a/698945d98fd2eeca3135ddc8/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-oscars-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc5a44ce644274a/698945d98fd2eeca3135ddc8/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-oscars-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals","caption":"2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals","creditText":"George Pimentel—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/","name":"Chrissy Teigen Lovingly Pushed John Legend Out of Her Oscars Red Carpet Moment"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Oscars 2019 Red Carpet Fashion Compilation","description":"The best looks from the 2019 Oscars red carpet.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/qowem7Mr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-02-25T01:37:36.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qowem7Mr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/","duration":"PT2M14S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5537319/chrissy-teigen-oscars/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```