See All the Celebrities Showing Up to the 2026 World Cup Games
From Katy Perry to Paris Hilton to Tyla to Victoria and David Beckham
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has officially arrived, and with it came the kind of celebrity turnout that makes you forget there's a soccer match happening at all. According to Harper's Bazaar, the tournament's opening weekend — spread across Los Angeles, Toronto, and Mexico City — read less like a sporting event and more like a very ambitious music festival with stadium seating.
Mexico City opened the whole thing on June 11 with Shakira headlining (obviously), Burna Boy performing, and Salma Hayek presenting — a lineup that understood the assignment before anyone else had even arrived. Then Los Angeles took the baton on June 12 for the United States vs. Paraguay opener, where Katy Perry, Tyla, Future, Rema, LISA, and Anitta performed during the opening ceremony. In the stands: Tom Cruise flanked by David and Victoria Beckham, Sofia Vergara with Owen Wilson, Paris Hilton, Becky G, Rob Lowe, and Billy Bob Thornton sitting next to USMNT striker Folarin Balogun, which is somehow both random and completely inevitable.
The Fashion Moment No One Is Talking About (Yet)
What's quietly remarkable here is that the World Cup — historically a khaki-and-face-paint situation — is shaping up to be a genuine fashion moment. Victoria Beckham at a soccer game is already a tabloid-ready image, but pair her with Tom Cruise and half of Hollywood in a venue that's essentially a global broadcast, and you have a front row that rivals any fashion week seating chart. The performers weren't just musical acts; they were styling statements. Tyla alone has built an entire aesthetic brand around cultural crossover, and her presence at two separate tournament games signals that this is a deliberate, curated world stage.
Toronto brought its own energy: Alanis Morissette and Alessia Cara performed at the Canada vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina opener, while Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bublé represented the very specific genre of Famous Canadian Men Who Show Up For Canada. The throughline across all three cities is that this World Cup is functioning as something fashion and culture have rarely seen from sports — a truly global runway, one where the crowd is as considered as the stage.
When the bleachers include both Victoria Beckham and Paris Hilton and the stage holds Shakira, Tyla, and LISA in the same weekend, the World Cup has officially become the crossover event the fashion world didn't know it needed.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
