Sabrina Carpenter 'Arresting' Salma Hayek Had Surprising Consequences

By Sarah Tate

May 15, 2025

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Salma Hayek had a fun time being "arrested" by Sabrina Carpenter, but the aftermath caused a bit of panic.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model stopped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday (May 14) where she recalled the time she was placed under arrest at the "Espresso" singer's Short n' Sweet tour stop in London on March 9, a segment of the show where Carpenter "arrests" a concert-goer for being "too hot" and gifts them a pair of fuzzy pink handcuffs.

At the time, Carpenter exclaimed, "Wow, you are so gorgeous... It's crazy 'cause I just met you, but I'm already in love with you, and I feel like we're kind of destined." Speaking to host Jimmy Fallon, Hayek joked that for her "first arrest [it] was not too bad." However, it had some unintended consequences, per Billboard.

"This is the thing, I kind of loved it," she said. "Except that afterwards my daughter put it on and we couldn't get them off! [She] had to go to school and we couldn't get them off."

The Frida star said she began panicking when the cuffs got stuck and "started smacking" them in order to break them open. Fortunately, they were able to get the cuffs off, much to the relief of Hayek.

"I just did not want to explain to the school... I handcuffed her on top of it," she said.

Hayek is one of several famous faces to have been placed under "arrest" at one of Carpenter's shows. During another London concert, she arrested Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton, joking that she was "really spicing up my life." She has also arrested Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley, Marcello Hernandez as his Saturday Night Live character Domingo and Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown.

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