Celebrities in the bathroom

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While the photo agencies swarmed the red carpet and photographers roamed around staging posed shots, there was another snap-happy cameraperson at last night's Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala—Colin Firth's wife. Yup, Livia Firth was taking photos all night, but not where you'd suspect. Refinery29 has the scoop: "Girls know the best place for a good goss session is in the ladies room. So, we can only imagine that the toilet at the 2011 Costume Institute Gala was the bathroom to be in last night. Luckily, Livia Firth, wife of Oscar-winner Colin Firth, was on hand to document just how fabulous a restroom can be, whipping out her phone to snap some pics that she naturally shared with the world via Twitter." [Refinery29]