Intense security around Hollywood as Oscars red carpet opens<\/span>published at 21:15 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n21:15 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Regan Morris<\/strong>
Reporting from Hollywood<\/span><\/p>\n![\"People](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2026\/3\/15\/c254466a-7ba4-4aed-a9b5-8bc0acdac5ab.jpg.webp\")
<\/span><\/div>\nI always walk Hollywood Boulevard on Oscars day. Sometimes there are protests. There are always tourists and fans craning their necks trying to catch a glimpse of stars arriving to the red carpet. <\/p>\n
The street, which typically is filled with tourists taking pictures of the Walk of Fame, is closed down so stars can arrive in limos. <\/p>\n
Tourists are still out waving at those limos and locals are packed into the Hollywood Farmer\u2019s Market, just a few blocks away. <\/p>\n
But this year, security is definitely more intense than usual. <\/p>\n
Hollywood Boulevard is closed for blocks – as is usual. But this year the police presence is greater as the US-Israel war with Iran continues, with Los Angeles police cars and officers up and down the boulevard and surrounding side streets.<\/p>\n
The Oscars looks so glamorous on TV that many people watching at home don’t realise that the red carpet is actually on a street surrounded by tourist trinket shops selling t-shirts and plastic Oscar trophies. <\/p>\n
The stars walk along the carpeted boulevard to the steps of the Dolby Theatre, which rises up through the centre of a shopping mall. <\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t look like that on TV. It\u2019s all part of the magic of Hollywood. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intense security around Hollywood as Oscars red carpet openspublished at 21:15 GMT 21:15 GMT Regan MorrisReporting from Hollywood I always walk Hollywood Boulevard on Oscars day. Sometimes there are protests. There are always tourists and fans craning their necks trying to catch a glimpse of stars arriving to the red carpet. The street, which typically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Oscars-2026-celebrities-arrive-on-the-red-carpet.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329948,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329946\/revisions\/2329948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Regan Morris<\/strong> I always walk Hollywood Boulevard on Oscars day. Sometimes there are protests. There are always tourists and fans craning their necks trying to catch a glimpse of stars arriving to the red carpet. <\/p>\n The street, which typically is filled with tourists taking pictures of the Walk of Fame, is closed down so stars can arrive in limos. <\/p>\n Tourists are still out waving at those limos and locals are packed into the Hollywood Farmer\u2019s Market, just a few blocks away. <\/p>\n But this year, security is definitely more intense than usual. <\/p>\n Hollywood Boulevard is closed for blocks – as is usual. But this year the police presence is greater as the US-Israel war with Iran continues, with Los Angeles police cars and officers up and down the boulevard and surrounding side streets.<\/p>\n The Oscars looks so glamorous on TV that many people watching at home don’t realise that the red carpet is actually on a street surrounded by tourist trinket shops selling t-shirts and plastic Oscar trophies. <\/p>\n The stars walk along the carpeted boulevard to the steps of the Dolby Theatre, which rises up through the centre of a shopping mall. <\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t look like that on TV. It\u2019s all part of the magic of Hollywood. <\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Intense security around Hollywood as Oscars red carpet openspublished at 21:15 GMT 21:15 GMT Regan MorrisReporting from Hollywood I always walk Hollywood Boulevard on Oscars day. Sometimes there are protests. There are always tourists and fans craning their necks trying to catch a glimpse of stars arriving to the red carpet. The street, which typically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Oscars-2026-celebrities-arrive-on-the-red-carpet.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329948,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329946\/revisions\/2329948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Reporting from Hollywood<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n