Grammy Awards 2025: Why Kanye West and Bianca Censori left minutes after walking the red carpet

Kanye West with his wife, Bianca Censori, at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Photo / Getty Images

Kanye West left the Grammy Awards only minutes after walking the red carpet with his partner, Bianca Censori.

The rapper made an appearance at the glitzy event in Los Angeles on Sunday night (local time) to pose for pictures alongside Censori – who turned heads in a see-through dress – and subsequent reports suggested the pair had been removed from the ceremony by security guards.

However, TMZ.com reports West chose to leave the Crypto.com Arena venue after walking the red carpet. The website states: “He walked the red carpet, got in his car of his own volition and then left ... police and Grammys security never got involved.”

The report says there were no complaints about Censori’s revealing outfit.

West was nominated in the best rap song category for his track Carnival with Ty Dolla $Ign, but he didn’t stick around to find out if he won the prize.

The award went to Kendrick Lamar for Not Like Us.

After the event, West took to Instagram to praise Censori over her red-carpet outfit. He shared pictures of her see-through gown and wrote: “Custom Couture Grammy dress for the most beautiful woman ever My love my best friend My wife.”

He also shared a snap of Lamar, who was the night’s biggest winner as he took home five trophies. West captioned the snap: “Gemini season” and added an emoji of a goat – seemingly as a nod to the acronym for “greatest of all time”.

West’s brief appearance at the Grammys came 10 years after the hip-hop star last attended the music industry’s biggest night.

He previously expressed his disillusionment with the prizegiving in a social media meltdown in 2020, when he posted a video showing one of his Grammy awards in a toilet bowl alongside the words: “All musicians will be free.”