Prince Harry turned up solo at Friday night’s One805LIVE! concert/event, held at Kevin Costner’s Carpinteria estate. Harry and Meghan joined the event last year, and both were on stage to honor various Santa Barbara-area first responders. The event is a huge local fundraiser for firefighters, local police departments and sheriff’s departments. There’s music and tons of local celebrities come out. Meghan missed this year’s concert, and it seems like Harry told people that she was sick. I believe it! Covid is going around, as is a seasonal cold. They have two kids who go to school, and schools are germ incubators. Lots of people are sick this time of year, I’m just saying. As for the event, Harry was once again invited on stage, and he presented an award to an air support pilot.
Prince Harry spent his Friday night in Carpinteria, Calif., helping raise funds for Santa Barbara County First Responders. The prince took the stage at the star-filled One805LIVE! concert, hosted by Kevin Costner. The concert helps raise funds for the local fire, police, and sheriff departments, with proceeds going towards equipment and mental health resources.
The Duke of Sussex took the stage in front of hundreds of concertgoers with the night’s honoree, Santa Barbara County air support pilot Loren Courtney.
“As you’ve probably heard already, 22 years [of] military service over 10,000 hours and rarely sees his family because he’s always here flying helicopters,” Prince Harry said of Courtney. After he quipped that Courtney was 65 years old but looked 40, he asked him, “Why do you still do what you do?”
“I do this because I love doing it and I love doing it for the county of Santa Barbara. It’s a rewarding experience whenever we go out, either putting out fires or rescuing somebody in the back country or medical evacuations from vehicle accidents or doing the law patrol, keeping citizens safe,” Courtney replied.
When Prince Harry asked if there was “an experience or a story that stands out” from his years of service, Courtney recalled an experience when he was doing search and rescue in Colorado and helped rescue a group of skiers who had gone off a 30-foot embankment. One of them, he said, suffered a severe head injury and took five attempts to get out.
“I learned in the military, you never leave anybody behind. We got him out. He spent almost a year in intensive care and then rehab, and now he’s walking, he got married. He actually went to the top of the Grand Tetons and, and proposed to his girlfriend after the accident,” the pilot added.
“You didn’t have to rescue him again, did you,” Prince Harry joked. “You are one of the many heroes here tonight. There are people here tonight who are alive because of you and who are back to their families because of you… from everybody here, thank you so much.”
Nice. Harry and Meghan handed out some of the awards last year, and I’m sure they’ll both be invited next year too. I kind of think Kevin Costner has a great deal of affection for the local royals. There were so many other celebrities there too: Cameron Diaz, Zoe Saldana, Pink, Rob Lowe, Richard Marx and more.
I’m also looking closely at Harry’s clothes here – very soft-looking dark-wash jeans, a subtle-striped button-down, a slim-cut sport coat and a necklace. Did Meghan dress him before he left the house or did he put this together himself? It’s really good – casual, but dressed up enough for a fundraiser/concert.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910312025, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910312026, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910312027, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910315288, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910315299, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910315301, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910315302, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
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- Prince Harry at One805!Live, a benefit concert for 1st responders of Santa Barbara County, California, held at Kevin Costner’s property in Montecito, USA, on 20 September 2024.,Image: 910315333, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jerry Perez / Avalon
Yeah, Hollywood is definitely turning on them. Lol!
It’s great to see how the local A-listers have welcomed H&M and put them to good use.
Joking aside, I’m sure the Sussexes are happy to volunteer for causes like this — showing up and doing good for the community, and the people serving it who do so much to make other people’s lives better.
Meanwhile, Harry’s brother was probably watching the footage and rage-screaming…
I don’t think the mail knows how to read because if they did they would have seen this. I suspect that Peg is furious. Harry is out with AListers doing good things and being asked to present awards to first responders.
@ Sasha. Lol indeed. Twitter was abuzz with pics of Harry at the fundraiser which made a total mockery of the article in the Daily Fail that Hollywood was turning on the Sussexes. So, I am in the camp that it was not worth Archewell or WME responding as the proof was in the pudding as it were. 😂
What I don’t get about the British media is their propensity for these stories about Hollywood, America or whatever “turning on” the Sussexes when the BM never admitted that the Sussexes were welcomed or protected by America. You can’t “turn against” someone unless you first held them in warm regard.
Harry seems to really love those linen button downs almost as much as he loved those polo shirts but the linen looks good on him. I remember someone posting on Twitter a picture of Philip in a linen shirt and talking about Harry takes after him style and looks wise and i can see it.
@Chelsea,
I think it’s the influence of being married. He has spoken about his terrible clothing choices when he was younger, so I’d say it’s like most men who suddenly have style after being married.
Saw this story in the Wail, I was really cross when they put the word sick in inverted commas as if Meghan was lying about being unwell. Meghan is ‘sick’ Nothing they could really complain about it was just the inference.
I’m just surprised the Fail isn’t accusing Meghan of copying Kate since she was ill first. They are so ridiculous.
Anyway, feel better soon Duchess! As with all parents, I hope she is the only one sick and not M and the kids so she can get some rest. Nothing more exhausting than being a sick mom with a sick family.
I saw that too. And the bots rant about Costner not wanting her there. And she was not really sick and the usual drivel. And how dare she get sick when kates sick
@Tessa the trolls are just annoyed because nobody is talking about the THR story except them and the British tabloids. Best not to engage, just ignore. The story came out over a week ago and we have seen Meghan out and about looking radiant twice since then.
I don’t think Harry told anyone Meghan was sick, a tabloid said she was sick, because she was not there and it became a fact.
I saw that too in multiple stories and it pissed me off. One because it’s just part of their long-standing smear against her that nothing that she says is ever true, it’s always she allegedly spoke to, allegedly worked, allegedly donated and it’s never like that for anyone else. But also I do think that the inverted commas is them being irritated that their big story about how everyone hates them see even The Hollywood reporter says so was immediately negated by them showing up at an event with a bunch of other stars. So of course now it has to be, well she’s hiding out. I don’t say this often but it’s truly evil how much these people want their marriage to fail and for this woman to be unsuccessful just because she didn’t feel the need to debase herself to stay within a system the way that so many of them would.
How can she be hiding out if she was seen out in public with Harry twice since THR story came out? Even their trolling makes no sense.
I’m surprise that there are no mention in the tabloids that Harry being there solo is a sure sign that they are on the brink of a divorce!
I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
Didn’t the British press that the A-list celebrities didn’t want to be around Harry and Meghan? Anyway, Harry started dressing better after he got with Meghan. I think he started to care about fashion because he wanted to look good next her and that Meghan helped him in the beginning. It wouldn’t surprise me if she bought clothes for him too.
After reading about Kevin Costner’s experience with the royal machine, I see why he is fully supporting H&M publicly. He saw how the BRF lies even about little things and has the press on their side.
What bad experience did Kevin have with the BRF?
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I noticed in some pictures that Harry wore a different style of shoes that showed a considerable amount of flesh because he didn’t wear socks!
This isn’t the first time he has worn a pair of loafers without socks, because they aren’t made to wear socks with. It would look as horrible as Birkenstocks with socks. Besides people who live in warm climates don’t own socks like they do in cold climates.. I live in a warm climate and I have 4 pairs of socks and they are only used when I travel north. (I workout in 🩰 so no socks needed for that)
LOL! This is for sure the truth. I only own socks for hiking and ankle socks for exercising.
I’m from the south and can’t bear to wear socks with shoes March through November. It just feels weird.
Socks do not go with certain kinds of shoes. They just don’t. Full stop.
There are those no show socks but those are so hit or miss. Probably not for H&M though. But for us less wealthy people – it’s a hard find! Plus now gen z is coming for our socks *lolsoblol*
This is a great event for the community. Harry is good at talking with people on stage, putting them at ease, cracking a good-natured joke. He really shines. Bummer Meghan is sick. I took my niece to Dollywood last week and felt myself getting progressively sicker on the 3h drive back home. Was sick sick sick for 4-5 days later. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Ugh.
This appearance shoots down the Sussexes have no friends on Hollywood bs the BM pooped out.
Tabloids want people to believe that they don’t have any friends.
When they first move to California, the tabloids rang stories about the Sussexes would be at the opening of an envelope. When that didn’t happen they change the story to, no one is inviting them.
Trolls when Meghan isn’t pictured with Harry : They’re divorcing, she’s embarrassed, Hollywood hates her!
Trolls when Meghan is pictured with Harry: so clingy! She’s controlling him! Wah wah wah!
@Em. You have totally nailed it.
Harry has found a place that he and his family are safe and well protected, their friends are not selling them out.
Shouldn’t Harry be wearing a mask if MM is sick? 🤒
Harry never said Meghan was “sick”, that’s just what sources said and why would he wear a mask? Is it always a flu when someone is sick? Why can’t someone have good old gastroenteritis? Did you ask William to wear a mask to protect himself since he was going back home to someone who had “cancer”?
1- I’m sure she tested. It’s standard now.
2- it was an outdoor event.
3- save it for Camilla and William – partners with cancer at home and not a mask to be seen.
While I’m sure this was with the best intentions, I would NEVER donate to a police department. If they need more gear and mental health rss, they need to have their union put that into their contracts. Police budgets in this country are insane at the cost of so many other necessary services.
Fire depts (is that one voluntary?) and EMT/paramedics I’d donate too. Especially for the mental health rss. It would be nice if they could have a mh professional available for emergencies.
Agreed. The police in this nation are armed better than our very “spoiled” military.
But as the local ones are the ones working 24/7 with Harry and the celebs to keep them safe – I can see Harry appreciating that specific department.
But the real heroes are the ones he awarded things to. The fire fighters and search and rescue.
If you commented positively on a post for this event yesterday, the KP trolls immediately responded and attacked with negative responses about both Harry & Meghan. Of course it was coming from accounts with 6 friends. Come on Egg & Mumbles! You can’t hire a better troll farm? Geez, they’re just throwing money in the garbage. However, their response make it easy to block trolls.
And it makes no difference anymore. Writing those comments are not going to change anyone’s opinion of Harry going to a charity event so what’s the point. They are just sad they are the only ones talking about the THR article and no one else cares.
COVID is surging here in Los Angeles and has been for weeks. Get your boosters people!
Why are all the British media using quotes for the word “sick”, suggesting that the Duchess was not ill. Then the inference she is always ill. Are they seriously trying to project another persons MO to her then call it bad, awkward and rude?
WOW.
Harry is having a great time showing himself to be the Prince of a man he is.
Looking forward to hearing about this week’s speeches, talks, connections!!
Go Harry 👏💫 👏
I really wish the press would just let H&M live their lives.
I am so tired of the mud slinging at them.
H&M are no longer working royals, they are private citizens doing charity/benefit work.
Good for them.
Feel free to drag William, he should be doing daily “royal work” events.
Zoom meetings or 2x a day events within his local area.
If Anne can do it at her age, William should be pulling his weight too.
Kevin Costner should call Mrs. Dave Grohl, give her his divorce Atty name/number. LOL
Btw, saw Horizon part. 1….way too long. Not planning to see 2-4. Not going to be huge hit.
I am curious to know if Kevin, Harry and Meghan are actual friends and hang out since they live in the same area.
Pardon me while I put on my “baby deranger” bonnet and bib.
Waaaaaaaah! waaaaaaaa!
Why does Harry look sooo happy, content, healthy, loved up!! Doesn’t he know that he’s supposed to be miserable, lonely, missing the dumpster fire that is the UK and his toxic family, tired of all the living in the beautiful Montecito mansion with his beautiful loving wife and adorable children!!!
And what’s with the hanging with all the so-called A- listers, why are they not being shunned like the British trash media keep ranting about! (throws bottle across room) waaaaaaaaaaaa……… (sticks pacifier in mouth)