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When Desert Smash hits, Hollywood certain is aware of the right way to rally.
As is custom, the 2026 philanthropic movie star tennis and pickleball occasion was held the primary week of March at La Quinta Resort & Club. Serving as an unofficial kickoff to the BNP Paribas Open, Desert Smash unites actors, musicians, entertainers and athletes for a trigger — this 12 months, the USTA Foundation, which brings tennis, schooling and mentorship to younger folks from under-resourced communities.
Every week after Lily Collins announced her role as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming film venture primarily based on Sam Wasson’s ebook Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M, the Emily in Paris lead packed her baggage for the desert in assist of each the GO Campaign, for which she’s an official ambassador, and her husband, movie director and screenwriter Charlie McDowell, who performed on this 12 months’s third Annual Desert Smash Celebrity Pickleball Challenge.
Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell at twenty second annual Desert Smash.
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Collins’ in-laws, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, had been additionally in attendance at the pickleball and tennis matches alongside members and company Naomi Osaka, Yvonne Orji, Nick Kyrgios, Pete Wentz, Matteo Berrettini, Lorenzo Musetti, Alexander Zverev, Gavin Rossdale and Lance Bass, to call just a few.
Yvonne Orji and Naomi Osaka taking part in in twenty second annual Desert Smash.
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Amidst heated matches and exhilarating stay auctions, movie star cooks Masaharu Morimoto and Robbie Felice whipped up enviable eats for stars, athletes and company in partnership with HexClad Cookware, one in all this 12 months’s lengthy checklist of sponsors. Joining HexClad at the 2026 Desert Smash Sponsor Village had been David Beckham’s science-backed wellness model IM8, sustainable nice jewellery model John Hardy, fashionable tennis label Boast, Lucid Motors and Dobel Tequila (who teamed with No. 1 girls’s tennis participant Aryna Sabalenka to create her signature cocktail, the Marg-Aryna), amongst others.
For extra nice eating favorites, many company, star athletes included, headed to close by resort Grand Hyatt Indian Wells for Taste of Tennis, the place dozens of native cooks dished up Michelin-worthy bites. And as at all times, Desert Smash concluded in celebratory vogue with Smash Bash, the two-day occasion’s unique afterparty hosted at close by Zenyara, a 70 acre personal property with its very personal man-made white-sand seaside, that counts Rihanna, Post Malone, Blackpink and Idris Elba as previous company.
2026 Smash Bash afterparty at Zenyara Estate.
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Lily Collins on tennis court docket at twenty second annual Desert Smash.
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Tickets for Desert Smash 2027 will grow to be obtainable at desertsmash.com early subsequent 12 months.
