Janelle Monae and Pixie Lott’s Glow

Getty Images Janelle Monae dressed as ET and Jennifer Hudson as Whitney Houston's Queen of the Night costume.Getty Images

Janelle Monae (left) wears an ET dress on Jennifer Hudson’s chat show on Thursday

It’s Halloween again and two things are inevitable – before hordes of young trick-or-treaters knock on your door, and social media feeds are flooded with celebrities in costumes.

So to save you some pointless scrolling, here are some of the best celebrity Halloween costumes we’ve seen this year.

Getty Images Janelle Monae as ET The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 filmGetty Images

Janelle Monae was pretty unrecognizable as the lovable stranger.

Janelle Monae appeared as ET the extraterrestrial in the 1982 film, wearing some incredible prosthetics in the Jennifer Hudson Show’s Halloween special.

She is known for going the extra mile with her outfits. told The Hollywood Reporter: “Halloween is a happy place for me, it has been since I was a kid.

“It opens a larger conversation about how do we become agents of happiness? How do we become agents of happiness?

“Bringing Halloween experiences and creative experiences is a work of the heart, not labor. I do it because my heart demands it.”

Getty Images Pixie Lott wearing an Aperol Spritz cocktail glass.Getty Images

Pixie Lott wears an Aperol Spritz dress.

It’s not often you get a thirst for Halloween costumes, but Pixie Lott mastered her look this year by donning a fashionable Aperol Spritz cocktail dress.

The 33-year-old also completed her look with an orange piece as a hat.

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Amelia Diemoldenburg really reached into the Disney/Pixar archives for this look, as she appeared as the character Rose in the 2001 film Monsters Inc.

You’d be forgiven for not remembering this slug-like monster, who had a cameo in the animated film as a grumpy office worker.

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Lizzo definitely wins the award for most timely Halloween costume.

She wore a fake weight loss drug costume, dreamed up in a recent episode of South Park that joked about its body positivity message.

The outfit also doubled as a response to online speculation that her recent weight loss was fueled by the drug Ozempic.

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Nostalgia is always a big part of Halloween, and Paris Hilton nods to the trend with her 2024 look.

Taking it back 30 years, she dressed as Uma Thurman’s character Mia Wallace from the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

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Selena Gomez and her boyfriend Benny Blanco fell down the rabbit hole this year because of their outfits.

The actor wore an Alice in Wonderland costume while his musician partner paid homage to the Mad Hatter.

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