Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981), occasionally known by his initials JT, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.
Raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Timberlake began to adopt a more mature image as an artist with the release of his debut solo album, the R&B-focused Justified (2002), which yielded the successful singles "Cry Me a River" and "Rock Your Body", and earned his first two Grammy Awards.
Keri Russell: Girls were shut out of ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’ once they looked ‘sexually active’
nypost.comin “The Mickey Mouse Club” as a teenager, revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast that the club had a cut-off. “Was there a cut-off age where like, after you turned 17, you can no longer be on it?” Ferguson asked Russell, who joined the show when she was 15 in 1991 and left when she was 17. “Yeah, it’s usually girls who look like they were sexually active, which probably I was one of the first,” Russell said. “They’re like, ‘She’s out.
Oh, she is out.'” Meanwhile, “The boys stayed till they were 19,” she said. Russell added, “I was like, ‘By the way, I had sex with that person, so I know that they’ve had sex.’ For real.”She didn’t reveal who her early tryst was with, but Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, JC Chasez, Britney Spears, Dale Godboldo, Josh Ackerman, and Nikki Deloach are all fellow Mousketeers. “You know, girls and sexuality,” Russell said. “And by the way, me, I [had] like a 12-year-old boy body.
There’s nothing really sexy about me, but I think that was what [made Disney] nervous. Pregnant Mouseketeers aren’t on the roster.”Russell said she believed that she was able to get “out alive” from being a child star, because she was mostly surrounded by peers her age. “I think the creepiest part of kid acting is usually it’s one or two kids with all adults, and so that really accelerates the adultification of everything,” she said. “And for the Mickey Mouse Club, there were 19 of us.
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