{"id":349642,"date":"2026-06-06T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349642\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:08:56","slug":"adam-sandler-wont-attend-white-house-ufc-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349642\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler won\u2019t attend White House UFC event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Sandler<\/a>, who has spent recent days popping up around the Bay Area while in town for film work, will not attend an upcoming UFC event at the White House.<\/p>\n

The actor was among seven celebrities UFC CEO Dana White said he invited to the June 14 event on the White House South Lawn, according to Time. The list also included Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Leto, Jason Statham, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson and Mario Lopez.<\/p>\n

But a representative for Sandler told Vanity Fair<\/a> this week that the star, best known for comedies including \u201cBilly Madison\u201d and \u201cThe Wedding Singer,\u201d along with dramatic roles in films such as \u201cUncut Gems\u201d and \u201cJay Kelly,\u201d\u00a0 would not attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The magazine also reported that representatives for Leto and Lopez said they would not attend, and that a source close to Johnson said he would not be there either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The UFC event, scheduled for President Donald Trump\u2019s 80th birthday, is also being promoted as part of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary celebration<\/a>. Time reported that the White House, TKO and UFC are dividing up invitations, with White personally inviting the celebrity guests.<\/p>\n

Sandler, 59, has been in the Bay Area during production work for \u201cTime Out,\u201d an upcoming Netflix psychological drama directed by Scott Cooper. The streamer said the film stars Sandler as Vincent, a recently fired man struggling to hide the truth from his family. The cast also includes Willem Dafoe, Gaby Hoffmann, F. Murray Abraham, Steve Zahn and Adam Horovitz.<\/p>\n

A person familiar with local filming activity said the production was not filming in San Francisco, though production vehicles were parked near Huntington Park.<\/p>\n

Sandler\u2019s local presence became a mini Bay Area event over the weekend.<\/p>\n

He and his wife, Jackie Sandler, were spotted courtside Sunday at Chase Center during the Golden State Valkyries\u2019 game against the Las Vegas Aces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sandler made several visits to Original Joe\u2019s restaurants during his Bay Area stay. He also appeared in a post from Everyday SFC, a skate shop at 10 Geary St. near Union Square.<\/p>\n

Other Instagram posts appeared to show Sandler elsewhere in the Bay Area, including at the Cove at Oyster Point in South San Francisco, an indoor basketball court and Vacation<\/a>, a vintage store in North Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler, who has spent recent days popping up around the Bay Area while in town for film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,184,838,13,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-349642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-bay-area","tag-movies-and-tv","tag-politics","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}