Kennedy Center Honours: Julia Roberts turns George Clooney into a fashion statement - BBC

Julia Roberts showed her enactment for George Clooney astatine the prestigious Kennedy Center Honours by wearing a customized formal adorned with his face.

The agelong achromatic gown featured framed photos of the prima passim his vocation - from aboriginal headshots to his relation arsenic Doug Ross connected ER and a celebrated polka-dot photoshoot for W magazine.

Clooney was among respective beingness accomplishment honourees astatine the event.

Rock set U2 and vocalist Gladys Knight were besides recognised.

The star-studded lawsuit was attended by different celebrities and governmental figures, including Matt Damon, Patti LaBelle, Sean Penn, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Sheryl Crow, Garth Brooks, Sacha Baron Cohen and Sesame Street's Big Bird.

Paul Pelosi, the hubby of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, besides made his archetypal nationalist quality since being brutally attacked successful his location successful precocious October.

Mr Pelosi, wearing a achromatic chapeau to screen caput injuries helium sustained erstwhile an intruder attacked him with a hammer, received a lasting ovation, and a fist-bump from President Joe Biden.

Earlier, successful a reception astatine the White House, the president praised the "exceptional radical of artists" for their accomplishments and contributions to the arts.

"Thank you for showing america the powerfulness of the arts and 'We the People'," Biden said.

Citing the lyric of U2's opus One, Biden continued: "At a infinitesimal erstwhile there's excessively overmuch hate, excessively overmuch anger, excessively overmuch part present successful America and, rather frankly, astir the world, we person to retrieve today, arsenic their opus goes, 'We're one, but we're not the same. We get to transportation each other'."

The set were aboriginal celebrated onstage astatine the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, who played their hits Elevation and One; portion Ukrainian vocalist Jamala performed Walk On.

The opus was primitively written for Burmese person Aung San Suu Kyi, but was precocious rewritten arsenic an anthem of solidarity for the radical of Ukraine.

U2's vocalist Bono and guitarist The Edge played the opus successful Kyiv earlier this twelvemonth astatine the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

But the band's bubble was punctured by Sacha Baron Cohen who, successful quality arsenic Borat, reminded them of the infamous concern with Apple that saw their medium Songs Of Innocence automatically added to people's iTunes libraries.

Speaking a fewer words successful Kazakh, Borat past translated: "It means: 'Please region your wretched medium from my iPhone 6.'"

Clooney was besides teased connected signifier by his Ocean's 11 co-star Matt Damon, who recalled the histrion erstwhile "stole Bill Clinton's stationery and wrote fake notes to actors saying however overmuch the president loved their movies".

The actor, who got his large interruption successful ER and went connected to go a movie prima successful movies similar Out Of Sight, Three Kings, O Brother Where Art Thou? and Up In The Air, was besides honoured by his father, Nick, who said: "George's champion and astir important enactment is inactive up of him."

He besides regaled the assemblage with stories of George's childhood, including the clip the seven-year-old - heartbroken implicit the assassination of Martin Luther King - gave his begetter each his artifact guns.

Actor and hip-hop prima LL Cool J paid tribute to Gladys Knight's almighty voice, saying: "I erstwhile heard Gladys sing the ABCs and I thought I was successful church".

Country euphony superstar Garth Brooks, past sang her classical psyche ballad Midnight Train to Georgia.

Christian popular singer-songwriter Amy Grant and Cuban-born composer Tania León were besides celebrated astatine the ceremony.