*NSYNC Friend Cheating Caused Justin Timberlake & Britney Spears Split

Contributed Anonymously:

David Nicoll, a friend/writing partner/roommate of JC Chasez, was on Star Dates on E! last night. He was on a date with Jill Whalen from Love Boat. She asked him what really happened between Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears and he said something along the lines of one of them cheated on the other with a mutual friend of theirs, and they don’t like each other very much right now.

Justin Timberlake Breaks His Foot Again

December 29, 2002 – The Sun reports Justin has again broken the same foot he broke six weeks ago while practicing dance moves for the Fox New Year’s Eve celebration in Las Vegas tomorrow night after. Timberlake will be there instead as a spectator, checking out The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, and Sheryl Crow.

Carson Daly Says Boy Bands Are Dead, But Not Forever

December 27, 2002 – Bill Hemmer of CNN caught up with Carson Daly to talk about the year in music, and asked the TRL host if he thought boy bands were dead. “I think so. I think the conventional notion of what a boy band is, is done,” he said. “I think, you know, young men singing and stuff like that, you know, Nick Carter and Justin Timberlake both have solo albums out. I think they’re going to do OK. Certainly Justin’s is. You’ll never get away from that. I mean, as long as there is Menudo, there’s going to be a boy band somewhere.” Read more.

Timberlake Wears ‘X’ Necklace

December 27, 2002 – Justin Timberlake is pictured in the December Details magazine with an ‘X’ necklace from the show at the Aladdin.

The 2002 Entertainment Hall Of Shame

December 27, 2002 – Contributed by elgato1019_1: Several popular artists made the Boston Herald’s 2002 Entertainment Hall of Shame. “For the last few months of 2001, artists and entertainers were on their best behavior. They held hands and raised their voices in harmony in tribute to the victims and heroes of 9/11. This year, they went back to acting normally. Which is to say, weirdness, greed, perversity and egomania ran rampant.” Michael Jackson made the list for “dangling one of his children off a hotel room balcony.” Christina Aguilera made it for her “booty-bumpin’ video for the song ‘Dirrty’. *NSYNC’s Lance Bass “tried to have the Russians blast him into space, but couldn’t write the $20 million check. Apparently, he invested all his ‘Bye Bye Bye’ profits in Enron stock.” Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears made the list for their “messy breakup” and other creepy antics.