A Guide to the Stars' Table Mates at the White House Correspondents Dinner




05/02/2014 at 09:00 AM EDT




A Guide to the Stars' Table Mates at the White House Correspondents Dinner


From left: Lupita Nyong'o, Joe Manganiello and Jessica Simpson


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Politics may make strange bedfellows, but Washington D.C.'s most star-studded night always makes for some interesting table talk.

At the 100th annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, emceed this year by Joel McHale, expect to see the usual oddball mix of celebrities seated with politicians seated with media folk, who host tables in a massive ballroom under the Washington Hilton.


To the uninitiated, watching the A-listers make their way to their seats seems a bit like Harry Potter's Hogwarts "sorting hat" is at work sending each boldface name to the right place. Where's Anna Kendrick headed? She'll be at the Huffington Post's table, where she can chat up Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell, and Questlove of the Roots, among others.


The USA Today table will have an eclectic mix of celebs, including Jessica Simpson and fiancé Eric Johnson, Rosario Dawson, Freida Pinto, Jeff Goldblum and Orange Is the New Black actresses Taylor Schilling and Uzo Aduba.


No surprise that The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies will be at CBS's table. There she'll find Her director Spike Jonze, singer Gloria Estefan, and New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton in the mix.


How about Lupita Nyong'o? She'll make her way to Time and Fortune magazines' tables, where she might sit next to Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón or Uber car service CEO Travis Kalanick.


We might be biased, but we believe the tables to be at are those that include PEOPLE's guests: actors Joe Manganiello and Scott Foley, Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.


Thanks to The Washington Post here's a partial list of where to spot some of your favorite stars – and the pols they may encounter – around the bread basket:


Time and Fortune:

Lupita Nyong’o

Steve McQueen, director

Alfonso Cuarón, director

Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber

Armie Hammer


The Huffington Post:

Arianna Huffington

Richard Sherman, Seattle Seahawks

Kristen Bell

Dax Shepard

Sylvia Burwell, secretary Health and Human Services

Questlove

Anna Kendrick


Thomson Reuters:

Ron Dermer, the United States Ambassador to Israel

Darren Criss

Madeline Stowe

Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings


NBC Universal:

Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Kevin Hart

Will.i.am

Sage Kotsenburg, Olympic athlete

Matt Lauer

Savannah Guthrie

Al Roker

Natalie Morales

Carson Daly


CBS:

Julianna Margulies

Brad Paisley

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Gloria Estefan

Emilio Estefan

Spike Jonze

William Bratton, New York Police Department Commissioner

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)


ABC:

Tony Goldwyn

Hayden Panettiere

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Eric Stonestreet

Sofia Vergara

Jeh Johnson, secretary of Homeland Security






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