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The Queen Is Coming: How Got Her Glow Up for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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The Queen Is Coming: How Got Her Glow Up for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

By Maiysha Kai via https://theglowup.theroot.com

 

What does the queen of the White House press corps wear to her annual ball? Since it was The Glow Up’s first White House Correspondents’ dinner this year, we had to know: How does 21-year veteran journalist, CNN contributor and White House press corps firebrand April Ryan get her glow up?

 

Not to humble brag, but here at The Glow Up, we talk to a lot of celebs and luminaries. But I had a full-on fan-girl moment when knocking on Ryan’s hotel room door at the Washington Hilton last Saturday afternoon. After all, this is the woman who takes on Sarah “Smoky Eye” Huckabee Sanders on a daily basis, and bravely asks the questions we’re all wanting answers to (like, “With all of this turmoil … has the president at any time ever …

 

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