--- description: The MSNBC host was eager to make friends at TIME/People’s pre-White House Correspondents Association dinner cocktail party title: Ronan Farrow Gushes Over Lupita Nyong'o image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2425bf50e2e60d7/69868dab810bbb4abcc915d9/487866071.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ronan Farrow Gushes Over Lupita Nyong'o by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 3, 2014 1:32 PM CUT  Savannah Guthrie and Ronan Farrow Savannah Guthrie and Ronan FarrowMichael Loccisano—Getty Images for TIME by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 3, 2014 1:32 PM CUT MSNBC host Ronan Farrow called the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner weekend the “unholy union of Washington and Hollywood,” but there was one star he was dying to see. Like many others at the TIME/_People_ pre-White House Correspondents Association Dinner cocktail party on Friday, the TV host just couldn’t help but gush over Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o. “Lupita is here,” Farrow said. “Need I say more?” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/86651/ronan-farrow-lupita-nyongo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/86651/ronan-farrow-lupita-nyongo/"},"headline":"Ronan Farrow Gushes Over Lupita Nyong'o","datePublished":"2014-05-03T13:32:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:38:18.388Z","description":"The MSNBC host was eager to make friends at TIME/People’s pre-White House Correspondents Association dinner cocktail party","url":"https://time.com/86651/ronan-farrow-lupita-nyongo/","keywords":["celebrities","Media"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2425bf50e2e60d7/69868dab810bbb4abcc915d9/487866071.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2425bf50e2e60d7/69868dab810bbb4abcc915d9/487866071.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME/People WHCD Cocktail Party","caption":"TIME/People WHCD Cocktail Party","creditText":"Michael Loccisano—Getty Images for TIME","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/86651/ronan-farrow-lupita-nyongo/","name":"Ronan Farrow Gushes Over Lupita Nyong'o"}}]}] ```