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10 Awesome Celebs Who Went To Prom With Their Fans

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Ten pop and screen stars turned a random Tuesday night into the best prom story a teenager will ever tell.

Prom season brings out a strange tradition in the celebrity world: stars who skipped their own senior dance because of tour schedules or film shoots keep showing up at other people’s. Some accept fan invitations sent through Twitter or homemade videos. Others just show up unannounced with a camera crew in tow. The video “10 Awesome Celebs Who Went To Prom With Their Fans” runs through the most memorable of these nights, from MTV’s old “Once Upon a Prom” specials to Kylie Jenner stepping off a private jet in Sacramento.

• Taylor Swift picked senior Whit Wright out of a lineup of 50 boys on MTV’s “Once Upon a Prom” in 2008, taking him to his Hillcrest High School dance in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and out for fried chicken afterward.
• Demi Lovato kept a kindergarten pact with childhood friend Nolan Raymer in 2010, arriving at his Colleyville Heritage High School prom in a Rolls-Royce rented with help from then-boyfriend Joe Jonas.
• Kylie Jenner flew via private jet to Sacramento’s Rio Americano High School in April 2017 to be junior Albert Ochoa’s date after his original prom invitation was turned down.

The MTV Era That Started It All

Before viral tweets and homemade YouTube pleas became the standard route to a celebrity prom date, MTV built an entire franchise around the concept with “Once Upon a Prom.” Rihanna appeared on the show in 2007, surprising a high schooler named Richard, posing for the official backdrop photos, and wearing a corsage that matched his boutonniere like any real date would. A year later, Taylor Swift did the same for Whit Wright, choosing him from 50 candidates and later joking about the fried chicken dinner that capped off the night.

Childhood Promises and Cancer-Ward Wishes

Not every celebrity prom date started with a contest. Demi Lovato had known Nolan Raymer since kindergarten, and when prom season arrived in 2010, she made good on a promise made years earlier by showing up at his Colleyville Heritage High School dance in Texas. Vanessa Hudgens took a different route in 2014, crashing a prom put together by The Art of Elysium and Kaiser Permanente specifically for Cesar Guerrero, a 17-year-old student being treated for cancer.

Whit Wright was chosen out of 50 boys for one night with Taylor Swift — and still walked away talking about the fried chicken.

Crashing Dances That Weren’t Even Theirs

Some of the best stories on the list involve celebrities who weren’t invited by anyone in particular. Justin Bieber crashed Chatsworth High School’s 2015 prom simply because it was near his recording studio, and Katy Perry did the same at a Melbourne high school formal in 2010, dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” with students who had no idea she was walking through the door. It’s the kind of goodwill that stands out precisely because it costs the star nothing but an hour of their night — a contrast worth remembering next to the list of people Katy Perry has treated far less kindly over the years.

Star Misses The Final Performance

Miley Cyrus couldn’t get to fan Matt Peterson’s prom in 2014, so she flipped the script: she invited him onto her Bangerz tour, had him hand her his corsage onstage, and serenaded him in front of a full arena instead of a gymnasium. It’s a version of the same gesture that shows up across plenty of other celebrity-fan stories that don’t end nearly as sweetly.

Kylie Jenner’s Private-Jet Prom

The most recent entry on the list happened just weeks before this roundup, in April 2017, when Kylie Jenner flew by private jet to Sacramento’s Rio Americano High School to be junior Albert Ochoa’s date after his original prom invite was turned down. Students at the school had no idea she was coming until she walked in.

Albert Ochoa’s prom photos are the ones everyone will still be talking about next spring, and if the pattern holds, some other rejected invite is already sitting in a celebrity’s inbox waiting for its own private-jet ending.