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Dannielynn Birkhead is channeling her interior Janet Jackson.
The daughter of Larry Birkhead and the late Anna Nicole Smith attended the thirty third annual Barnstable Brown Kentucky Derby Eve Gala on Friday night, the place she wore the precise outfit that Jackson, 55, wore to the identical occasion virtually twenty years in the past.
Larry, 49, revealed that the apparel Dannielynn, 15, was carrying as soon as belonged to the “Escapade” singer in an Instagram submit on the joint account that he shares together with his teenage daughter.
“Off to the Barnstable-Brown Gala with Dannielynn,” the photographer captioned a sequence of posts, earlier than revealing that her outfit was the identical one worn by Jackson in 2003.
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Noting that her ensemble “was bought as part of Janet’s @juliens_auctions benefitting charity,” Larry continued, “Sarcastically, Janet is predicted to attend tonight.”
“Subsequent up the @kentuckyderby then taking Dannielynn to her first @janetjackson live performance,” the proud dad concluded his submit.
On the occasion, Dannielynn and Jackson posed collectively for pictures alongside Larry. The daddy-daughter duo has lengthy attended the occasion, which is the place Larry first met Smith.
Chris Barnstable-Brown, one of many occasion’s organizers, tells PEOPLE that Dannielynn “regarded beautiful” whereas carrying her “homage” to Jackson. “She is getting so tall,” he provides of the teenager. “She’s virtually as tall as her dad now.”
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Jackson, in the meantime, Barnstable-Brown says, regarded like a “goddess within the flesh.” He provides: “Janet Jackson got here in and when simply completely could not be any sweeter.”
“She was so candy and right down to earth, and he or she was mingling with friends,” Barnstable-Brown says. “She was speaking to everyone.”
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Jackson, Dannielynn, and Larry have been simply among the friends to attend the star-studded gala, which raises cash for the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Heart on the College of Kentucky.
Over the previous 13 years, the occasion has raised and donated roughly $17 million to help the medical middle.
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Different friends on the occasion included Jason Aldean, Sam Hunt, Justin Hartley, Sofia Pernas, Richie Sambora, and Morgan Wallen, to call just a few.
The members of New Version — Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ralph Tresvant — have been additionally in attendance as effectively.
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Barnstable-Brown tells PEOPLE that lots of the singing celebrities in attendance jumped onstage for “impromptu” performances.
Amongst them included Aldean, 45, who carried out a “10-minute rendition” of his music “Little Pink Homes” — which Barnstable-Brown says, “Had the group all chanting.”
Hootie and the Blowfish’s Darius Rucker additionally carried out onstage, and Barnstable-Brown notes that his son Jack was in attendance on the occasion recording his set throughout what marked a father-son getaway for the duo.
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Sambora, 62, additionally carried out, and he later donated the guitar he was utilizing throughout his set to charity. The instrument, which was signed by a bunch of the opposite celebrities, began a bidding battle and offered for $70,000.
“Seeing all of them jamming and doing their dances and stuff like that was simply completely spontaneous, nevertheless it was a ton of enjoyable,” Barnstable-Brown tells PEOPLE.
