Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe wear elaborate E.T. costumes for their Halloween parties

Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe person opted for out-of-this-world Halloween costumes this twelvemonth — some choosing nan stubby alien E

NEW YORK -- Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe opted for out-of-this-world Halloween costumes this twelvemonth — some choosing to dress arsenic nan stubby alien E.T. for their parties connected other coasts.

While nan akin costumes will apt spark “who wore it best” debates that are celebrated successful personage magazines, nan stars chose different interpretations of nan animal from Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic, “E.T. nan Extra-Terrestrial.”

Klum's hubby Tom Kaulitz dressed arsenic E.T., while nan exemplary and tv characteristic came arsenic Mrs. E.T. pinch animatronic eyes, a agelong cervix and a blonde wig. Monáe opted for a stubbier type of nan diminutive alien, waddling connected nan reddish carpet astatine her Halloween bash Thursday night. The Grammy winner's E.T. besides sported a yellowish scale finger, mimicking nan movie character's ray up finger.

Klum and Monáe return Halloween seriously, pinch each donning elaborate costumes. This year, their Halloween nighttime parties played retired connected other coasts, pinch Klum gathering personage friends successful New York and Monáe hosting her statement successful Universal City, California.

Klum’s look was successful nan creature’s neck, allowing her to spot and speak. She told The Associated Press her costume had been successful nan useful for a year.

“I person been a instrumentality of E.T. since I was 9 years old,” Klum said. As she spoke, nan rima of her costume caput moved acknowledgment to nan mechanical features wrong nan suit.

“I conscionable emotion becoming this thing. E.T. is very mini and truthful I thought it would beryllium nosy to benignant of play pinch nan proportions too,” Klum said.

Klum and Kaulitz touched their heads tenderly aft unveiling their costumes amid fume and a ray show astatine Klum’s party.

Monáe revealed her E.T. costume connected Wednesday connected “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” She besides did an elaborate photograph sprout posted connected Instagram wherever she appeared riding a motorcycle pinch E.T. successful a handbasket connected front, an homage to 1 of nan astir iconic moments of Spielberg's film.

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Associated Press writer Leslie Ambriz contributed to this report.