Halloween fell on a Saturday this year, and Hollywood clearly circled the date months ago. The parties started a full week early, the group chats flooded with reveals, and the early verdict held all weekend: 2026 was the year of the celebrity-on-celebrity costume. Stars dressed as other stars, as their own family members, and in one case as the concert-ticket seating chart that has personally victimized every fan alive. Then, on Halloween night itself, the Queen of Halloween finally showed her hand — literally. Here are the best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2026, updated with the night's biggest reveals.
Heidi Klum as a Giant Severed Hand
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Twenty-five years of Heidiween, and she still found a way to top the worm, the peacock and Medusa. For her 25th annual Halloween party at Cathédrale in New York City, Heidi Klum arrived as a life-sized severed hand — a replica of her own left hand, built by Mike Marino and his ProRenFX team from scans of the real thing. The details are unreal: long red nails, her green-stone wedding ring, her other rings, and the little finger tattoo reading "Tom" for her husband, Tom Kaulitz, who missed this year's party while on tour. Her legs formed two of the fingers, her face peered out from the palm, and the wrist ended in full horror-movie gore — the "very, very bloody" look she had been teasing since September. She arrived in a truck covered in red "DANGER" signs and was helped to the ground by actors in yellow hazmat suits. Klum told PEOPLE the idea started simply: "I was looking at my hand and I was like, 'Hmm... I wonder if I could fit in a hand.'" Four months of fabrication later, she did. Bow to the Queen.
Zendaya as Halle Berry
Photo: Law Roach/Instagram via Page Six.
The most elegant costume of the year wasn't a character at all — it was a red-carpet moment. Styled by Law Roach, Zendaya recreated Halle Berry's look from the New York premiere of X-Men in July 2000: the yellow, brown and white geometric-print Lanvin two-piece — string bikini top and matching low-rise flared trousers — from the label's Fall 2000 collection, worn with tinted sunglasses and her new pixie cut doing the rest. Not Storm. Halle herself, at a premiere, 26 years ago. Roach posted the photos and video on Halloween, and Berry answered the only way that matters: a string of red hearts and a side-by-side on her own Stories. A tribute so precise it got cosigned by its subject.
Paris Hilton as Britney Spears — Again, and Perfectly
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Some traditions are sacred. For the fourth consecutive Halloween, Paris Hilton has paid tribute to her friend Britney Spears — and this year she went for the most iconic target available: Britney's "I'm a Slave 4 U" performance at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. The green top, the jeweled details, the hair — and yes, an actual albino Burmese python draped around her neck, just like Banana, the snake that became a pop culture legend 25 years ago. Hilton premiered the photos exclusively through Billboard before posting them herself, and she did not miss a single detail. At this point the annual Britney tribute is less a costume and more a franchise, and honestly? We hope she never stops.
Kim Kardashian as North West
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Most moms dress up as witches. Kim Kardashian dressed up as her own 13-year-old daughter. The SKIMS founder recreated North West's signature look down to the smallest accessory: the long electric-blue hair, the faux facial piercings, the black mouth grills, the stacked jewelry, the extra-long nails and the black-and-white alternative outfit. North's blue-haired aesthetic has been debated online for weeks, and Kardashian doubling down by wearing it herself reads as both a troll and a show of support — mother knows best, and mother is wearing the wig to prove it. It is easily the most talked-about costume of the season. (One family, two roundups: North's own costumes are in the Homage 2 HipHop list, while Kim's tribute lives here.)
Kendall Jenner as Jane Henderson in Paris, Texas
Photo: Kendall Jenner/Instagram — her "Paris, Texas" carousel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DfLB9v3j-oJ/
The deepest cut of Halloween night came from Kendall Jenner. For her Halloween party, she went platinum — a chin-grazing blonde bob, her lightest hair in years — to play Jane Henderson, Nastassja Kinski's character in Wim Wenders' 1984 classic Paris, Texas: the hot-pink fuzzy low-back dress, sheer black tights, posed at a bar recreating one of the film's most famous scenes. She captioned it simply: "Paris, Texas." Most of Halloween dressed as 2026. Kendall dressed as a 42-year-old art film, and pulled it off completely.
Caroline Wozniacki and David Lee as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
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It was inevitable that somebody would do it, and the sports world got there first. Former tennis world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki and her husband, former NBA player David Lee, channeled pop superstar Taylor Swift and her NFL husband Travis Kelce — Lee in the full Chiefs No. 87 jersey and football pants, Wozniacki with the microphone, the sparkly boots and the game-day glam. A tennis champion and an NBA champion dressing as a pop star and a football star: that is a crossover episode in a single photo.
Paris Hilton and Family as Beauty and the Beast
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Because one headline costume is apparently not enough, Hilton also led her family into a full Beauty and the Beast production: Paris as Belle in an enormous golden ballgown, husband Carter Reum as the Beast, son Phoenix as Lumière and daughter London as Chip. The reveal sparked some online noise about mom taking the princess role, but Hilton shut it down with the only fact that matters — London chose Chip herself because he is her favorite character. Case closed, and the family photo is a postcard.
Meg Stalter as an Astronaut
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Hacks star Meg Stalter went to space — sort of. Stalter hit Grindr's Pleasure Ball 2026 in a full astronaut suit, helmet in hand, and documented her "mission to Mars" with the most unhinged caption of the weekend: she is not the first pop star to go to space, she wrote, but she is the first to jump out of the ship mid-flight. (She's fine!) Comedy costumes rarely commit this hard to the bit, and the deadpan delivery makes the whole thing land.
Lily Allen as the Ticketmaster Seat Map
Photo: Lily Allen/Instagram via HELLO!
Now that is scary. Lily Allen wore the most original costume of 2026: the Ticketmaster seating plan. Her dotted white outfit replicates the arena seat map every fan knows and dreads — rows of available dots, a stage collar, the works. It is funny, it is topical, and after the year concertgoers have had with dynamic pricing and vanishing seats, it might genuinely be the most frightening thing on this list. No jump scares required.
Lisa Rinna as Kylie Jenner
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The celebrity-impersonation theme continued on Live with Kelly and Mark, where Lisa Rinna arrived as Kylie Jenner — recreating Jenner's viral orange Chrome Hearts gown from the Marty Supreme premiere, the one Jenner famously matched with Timothée Chalamet. Rinna, a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum dressing as the youngest Kardashian-Jenner on live television, understood the assignment completely.
Dylan Dreyer as Jeannie
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Morning TV went all in this year. On Today, the cast celebrated 100 years of NBC with costumes from the network's history, and meteorologist Dylan Dreyer stole the segment as Barbara Eden's Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie — pink harem pants, braided ponytail and all. Her co-hosts filled out the tribute: Jenna Bush Hager as Phoebe Buffay (with her cat as "Smelly Cat"), Craig Melvin as Snoop Dogg, Al Roker as Gumby and Willie Geist as Johnny Carson.
More Verified Looks We Loved
Not every great costume came with a photo we could run here, but these are all confirmed. Sabrina Carpenter took to TikTok as Penny Pingleton from Hairspray, singing "You Can't Stop the Beat" with friends as Seaweed and Tracy. Cyndi Lauper performed at Bette Midler's Hulaween gala in a full Ursula costume, switching her own hit into "Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun." Heidi's daughter Leni Klum showed up to Heidiween as a glamorous Miss Piggy, purple feather boa, pearls and pink snout. Victoria Justice — a Halloween obsessive who hosted her own "Love Zombie: The Resurrection" party in Los Angeles on Oct. 13 — teamed up with her sister Madison Grace to recreate the Grady twins from The Shining, matching blue dresses and all, and also cycled through zombie and Beetlejuice looks. Over on Live with Kelly and Mark, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos broke their own record with a staggering 60 costumes in a single Halloween episode, opening as Marvel's Yelena Belova and Spider-Man (a nod to Spider-Man: Brand New Day) before cycling through Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, The Odyssey, Heated Rivalry, Toy Story and dozens more. Lele Pons and Guaynaa coordinated a family Flintstones set with their baby, and WWE couple Mike "The Miz" Mizanin and Maryse went full Dumb and Dumber. Hilton, meanwhile, quietly logged a THIRD look — a family Addams Family costume posted Oct. 29.
And over on the hip-hop side, Megan Thee Stallion's 700-hour Cirque du Soleil Hottieween build and the rest of the culture's best looks are in the Homage 2 HipHop roundup.
Planning your own Halloween night in? Pair the costume watch with our viewing picks: Halloween Weekend Watch List: Scream, Dexter & More.
Final call: Heidi's severed hand, Zendaya's Halle, Paris as Britney, or Kim as North — who won Halloween 2026? Tell us in the comments.
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