Zooey Deschanel isn’t giving up her iconic bangs.
On the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, June 7, the 44-year-old New Lady star informed PEOPLE that her signature coiffure is right here to remain.
“I look higher with them,” the actress, who walked the purple carpet together with her fiancé Jonathan Scott, shared. “I’ve undoubtedly had durations in my life the place I’ve grown them out. However I simply look higher with them I believe.”
She continued, “So, yeah, I will maintain them. I’ve had them since I used to be like two years previous.”
Scott, 46, jumped in to share a reminiscence of Deschanel with out her bangs and the frenzy it brought on.
“After we first began relationship, I keep in mind you had taken an image with no bangs after which there was a scandal on-line,” he informed PEOPLE. “Individuals have been like, who is that this? Is it Zoeey? I am like, ‘Oh, I did not understand it.'”
“My CIA cowl is not any bangs,” Deschanel joked.
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When requested if the 500 Days of Summer time star will maintain her bangs for her and Scott’s marriage ceremony day, she replied, “All the time bangs. All the time.”
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Deschanel and Scott met in 2019 whereas filming an episode of Carpool Karaoke and acquired engaged in August 2023.
The actress has gone with out bangs a number of instances, however one occasion was notably jarring to followers. On the 2013 Met Gala, Deschanel swapped her trademark bangs for a glossy, side-parted updo to enrich her preppy seersucker Tommy Hilfiger costume (a notable departure from the yr’s “Punk” theme). Photographs of Deschanel on the occasion circulated on-line, with many commenting that they hardly acknowledged her with the bang-less coiffure.
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In 2021, the actress shared a selfie with out her bangs, referencing a memes that got here out of the 2013 incident.
“Proof I’ve a brow,” she jokingly wrote alongside the photograph, which confirmed her with a center half and no bangs.
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“For all of the doubters…” Deschanel added within the caption of her submit.
On her Instagram Tales, the actress shared a meme about her signature coiffure, which included a a photograph of herself together with her fringe subsequent to a photograph from the 2013 Met. “Seeing Zooey Deschanel with out bangs and glasses, I lastly acquired how no person knew who Clark Kent was Superman,” the meme learn.
“This photograph jogged my memory of this meme…LOL,” Deschanel wrote within the submit.
