The annual Time 100 gala once again gathered a star-studded crowd at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday to celebrate this year’s list. 

Victoria and David Beckham opted to skip the red carpet, instead slinking in through cocktails and into the ballroom at the last minute. The other honorees and their plus ones, however, spent the earlier portion of the night posing for photos and mingling about. 

The night’s host Nikki Glaser said that while she might seem like a seasoned pro at hosting major events now, behind the scenes she’s still as focused on her joke writing as ever.

“Making sure you have the best jokes ever and that each joke is better than the last and that you are just putting in effort,” she said of her approach. “I think that so many of these things you can kind of phone in and it would be good enough, but I’m not at a place in my career yet where I’m coasting.…Every performance I just try to give my best, especially at this where there’s so many important people in the room, both in Hollywood but outside of it. I’m going to finish here and go backstage and run through it a few more times before I go out.”

Attendees included Luke Combs and Coco Jones, who performed during the program, as well as Benicio del Toro, Kate Hudson, Jennie, Hailey Bieber, Claire Danes, Sterling K. Brown, Zoe Saldaña, Dakota Johnson, Ben Stiller, Ethan Hawke, Noah Wyle, Wagner Moura, Rhea Seehorn, Hilary Duff, Anderson .Paak, Keke Palmer, Alan Cumming, Chloe Kim, Jonathan Groff, Noah Lyles and many more.

“This dress has been on my mood board for the tour for such a long time,” Duff said of her Anna October blush dress with matching cape. “And we decided tonight was the night. It’s a very ’90s slipdress, super easy.”

The rest of her tour mood board includes “some vintage sport looks and a lot of softer colors,” as well as more cape moments.

“We’re figuring it out as we speak. There’s a major group chat going on in my phone right now about the whole operation,” she said. “There might be some harness kind of leather thing but mixed with a softness.”

Duff will head out this summer on the “Lucky Me” tour, which is her first major tour in more than 18 years.

“I’m most excited for the live challenge, just to be feeling that energy again,” she said. “The smaller shows that I’ve done have felt like such a celebration, and that feels really special to me. So to do it on such a large scale and know that people are so excited, more excited than I thought, is very moving. I don’t know how to process it. I go home and cook dinner at night with my four kids and I’m just like ‘What is happening in two months?’”

Olympian Hilary Knight was fresh off a flight from Seattle, where she and the Seattle Torrent had a game the night before. Knight and the team had last been in New York a few weeks prior, for a sold-out game against the New York Sirens at Madison Square Garden. 

“It was epic. I mean, obviously we didn’t come out with the win at the end, but just to feel the crowd, it was just so sensational,” she said. “And also a little bit of ‘aha. We did it.’ I feel like the Garden adds that validity, and  when you sell out of the Garden, that’s a pretty big deal. I think back to people that sort of laughed us off and didn’t take us seriously and here we are doing amazing things.”