I love me some Octavia Spencer, and I LOVE that she’s bringing random friends as dates to these events — first Josh Sussman, with whom she was on Wizards of Waverly Place, and now Cougar Town’s Josh Hopkins, who she’s known apparently for years. (Octavia has a wide and varied friends list.)
I hope she’s secretly dating BOTH of them.
I liked this okay on the red carpet, but now that I’m looking at the pictures…Octavia, I want to love you, but this is just so bland. AND it sort of looks like you spilled wine on your actual skirt and tied a towel — you know, a conveniently perfectly coordinated towel — around your waist as a sarong. Please don’t Sarong It Up at the Oscars — SA-RIGHT IT. HAHAHAHAHAH. Sorry. I can’t even believe I’m leaving that in this entry, but we’re all friends here and if you can’t deploy that kind of terrible pun on your friends….you need new friends. Octavia might be able to recommend some!
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I LOVE her. I actually really like this dress, even though it’s a Sarong style. And I love that she brought Grayson from Cougartown as her date.
Oh, I actually really like this. It’s understated, yes, but the SAGs aren’t the Oscars; understated is fine here. Also, wow is she beautiful. That smile and those eyes…this is an example of how a good understated dress forces the eye to focus up to the face, and she looks great.
I am liking this, too. And her styling (hair, make-up, jewelry) is phenomenal.
Fug? No, fab!
This is definitely not a fug. She knows how to dress her figure, and she looks wonderful as a result.
Agree, FAB!
Well, Josh Hopkins looks handsome! And, I like Octavia’s dress, but I wish it was in a saturated color, maybe a burgundy red or aubergine purple! She has beautiful skin and the soft grey washes her out! I’m not a fan of the hairdo, but the makeup, jewelry & clutch are great! I can’t FUG her because she’s awesome (I’ve loved her since I saw her on “Halfway House” and she made me laugh out loud in every episode)! Plus, she did mostly right and it would’ve been perfect with a few tweaks, so I’m 1/2 FABBING HER!
I like this too, she knows herself, knows what looks good and works it.
I really liked this. It doesn’t look as fab in this particular shot as it did on TV, but I really liked it, and I thought the color, although bland, looked really nice on her.
Also, it is NOT POSSIBLE to look fug with Josh Hopkins as arm candy.
I suspect the sarong look was diminished in person. She looks lovely, although I agree it could’ve used a vibrant color. I applaud her!
This probably needs to be a better color, but even so, I like it.
Yeah, I actually think this works well for the SAGs. It suits her beautifully. Like others have said, it would be interesting to see this in a different color – but this one actually works for her.
I actually love this dress. I think she looks lovely.
A possible best dressed for me. Wow. Jessica, are you tired? Need to take a little nap?
Shrug. Just didn’t love this one. We’ve given her a lot of love this season but this one I thought was kind of meh.
“Sa-right”, hahahahaha, awesome.
I also like the dress! She seems keen on the “Josh” escorts – I vote Josh Holloway for the Oscars!
Utterly beautiful! I love the color and the quiet sheen of the skirt fabric.
I think this is FAB! Super flattering and her styling was perfecto!
I have to chime in on the votes for FAB! (even though you didn’t put it to a vote, I’m voting anyway.) I thought she looked amazing, from hair to makeup to dress to arm candy. I agree that I’d like it better in a more vibrant color, but this isn’t bothering me. And it fits her beautifully. As an ample-bosomed woman, I can tell you that it takes perfect fit (of dress and undergarments) to wear this style of bodice and not have the girls look droopy and dowdy. Her figure looks amazing, and I think the sarong is sa-right for her body and looks soft and flowy. If you did a face-off between her dress and Lea Michele’s of a similar color, Octavia’s wins by a mile both in fit and in flattery to the figure of the wearer.
p.s. If I can’t have her date, I’ll settle for her clutch.
I think this is scroll down fug, cause the top and her hair/make-up and good just the skirt is fugly.
Also I’m pretty sure he plays for the other team in terms of dating
I gotta say I love it! It works for her, color and all. The only thing I might have changed is perhaps a pop of clutch color. But that’s it! I think this is fine for the SAGs. Her GG dress was great, and I’m sure her Academy one will be too.
Oh, I don’t watch Cougartown, but I loved her date in the Lifetime Christmas movie with Kristen Chenoweth. >>>
no I like this! fits her like a dream!
My first comment ever but I had to say that she looks incredible. You are soooooo wrong on this one. Beautiful with the hair, etc. you are seeing fouls (sarong) when there aren’t any. She looks amazing. My favorite.
Positives – great hair and accessories and makeup….the skirt totally reminded me of playing dress up as a kid and wrapping a towel/sarong around my waist and thinking I looked fab! Less detailing on the skirt and this dress is a keeper!
From style, to color for her skin tone, make up, (plus the escort), no problems here! In fact, one of my faves!
She looks nice even if the colour of the dress is blah.
She is 41, Viola Davis is 46. I read this yesterday. I am no expert on word done, genetics etc but the ladies look amazing – like poster girls for the 40s. And I want Ms Spencer’s skin…..
I have to agree with most of the comments on here. I think it’s fab. I like it. She knows how to dress for her figure. I don’t think the skirt is that bad. It’s fine. So what if it’s a sarong? It adds a little bit of extra flair.
And she needs to bring Josh Hopkins back as her date to the Oscars because they were cute all night.
She looks fantastic! She picked the right dress for her figure and her hair and makeup are class all the way.
I really loved this one too! From hair, to make-up, from blouse to sarong, she wowed me in this.
I think she looks great, but I totally agree that it looks like she has sheet or a towel (or sarong) around her waist. Maybe it had been lower down on her hips? Or maybe that would have been worse.
I agree that this is a total scrolldown fug. Lovely from the bustline up, but the satin sarong-style skirt (it looks like a cheap bedsheet!) totally ruins it. Imagine the sparkly fabric continuing down into a column or A-line with a narrow belt to nip it in at the waist – THAT would be gorgeous.
No–this is gorgeous on her. The color is amazing on her. We all gasped in delight when we saw her on stage. The fit is much more flattering on her–I like the sleeve length.
I love this on her, I thought she looked beautiful – radiant actually (in another pic elsewhere – the lighting on this one is not so great); and I loveeeeeeeee the colour – for itself and on her.
Totally sa-RIGHT.
this is NOT fug. i love it – fantastic!
Fab in every way. It fits. Enough said.
I think she wears really good undergarments. She looked great at the Globes, but this dress broadens her torso, and the bottom does look like a towel wrap.
Totally fab, well I’m not mad about the dove grey, but on the whole, it’s WAY more on the side of Fab than Fug.
i actually really like this, and think she’s looking finer and finer each time she comes out-like her stylist choice is better or the same person has honed what they do for her and baby, it is WORKING.
here’s hoping she has lots of ‘friends’! yay!
As a large-figured lady, it looks very nice on her. The sarong-style skirt is actually really flattering.
oh yes, if she’s going through all of the Josh’s in Hollywood, make it Josh Holloway for the Oscars..on the other hand, it’s Paper Buddy! but why is he wearing a baggy suit? this should never have happened if Jules had anything to do with it…
I wish she’d wear her hair down–I think the updo ages her. I saw photos of her at another event recently where her hair was down and she looked so much younger!
Josh Holloway is too married and too TV. How about Josh Lucas?
I think Octavia Spencer looks great from head to toe, but especially that little “How awesome is my life right now?” smile she’s always got going on.