Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough called into Orlando radio station WXXL 106.7 FM earlier this week and was confronted with reports that bandmate A.J. McLean and an ex-girlfriend were going to be appearing in Hustler. Howie responded by laughing about it and saying, “Honestly, I don’t know, I swear to God that’s the first time I heard about that, and I think I’ll have to give AJ a call, to see first of all which girlfriend it was (laughs) and second of all why would he dumb-butt to let a picture get out there.”

The Backstreet Boys’ Howie Dorough was in Boston on Sunday spending time at the Boston Children’s Hospital to talk to patients about Lupus.

Howie was also promoting a new alliance between the Caroline Dorough-Cochran Lupus Memorial Foundation he founded after his sister died from the disease, and Veritas Medicine, a Web site that provides information on clinical trials and treatment for lupus and more than 50 other diseases.

Howie told the Associated Press, “It just brings a good feeling to my heart to come back out here and visit these sometimes-sick patients and bring a little happiness to their lives.”