Obama's scaled-back 60th birthday bash: Celeb arrivals begin to show who's in, who's out

A number of A-list celebrities made the cut after former President Obama scaled back his nearly 500-person birthday-party guest list amid concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus, according to reports. 

While power couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé remained on the list, awkwardly, many other guests – including Larry David, Conan O'Brien, David Axelrod and some former White House staffers – were asked not to attend.  "He wants people to think this is going to be small and intimate, but I don't think we have the same definition of intimate." Amid pressure over the virus and potentially bad optics, the Obamas had said they were scaling the party down to just "family and close friends" but a local told the Mail the ex-president’s definition may be different from others.' Obama turned 60 on Wednesday.