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Britney Spears had a blast from her N’Sync past last night, with a surprise appearance by pal Lance Bass.
“My good friend Lance surprised me on stage last night for Breathe On Me. It was soooo funny! Good to see you Lance!” Britney writes on her official page, posting a pic. SEE A BIG PIC AFTER THE JUMP!
Kim Kardashian mixes business with pleasure as host of the Three-O Vodka Bubble launch at Greenhouse in NYC on July 7, where she was joined by sister Khloe and Lance Bass.
Kim had a much more low-key outing recently with older sis Kourtney Kardashian.
CHECK OUT ALL 13 PICS OF KIM, KHLOE AND LANCE IN THE GALLERY!
A new ad from The Nation of Marriage making the rounds on YouTube, called "Gathering Storm," features somber, scared-looking people warning others that a storm that is somehow linked to gay marriage is on its way, threatening everyone else.
"The clouds are dark, and the winds are strong," says one person standing in front of a stormy landscape, joined by another adding, "And I am afraid."
"I am a Massachusetts parent helplessly watching public schools teach my son that gay marriage is okay," adds another person.
"My freedom will be taken away," says another, as the ad apparently tries to link the idea that giving rights to one group of people will obviously make others unable to live their lives as they usually do or ban straight marriage outright.
Now celebs like Sophia Bush, Sarah Chalke, Lance Bass, Jason Lewis, Alicia Silverstone and George Takei are fighting back with humor, in their FunnyOrDie.com parody on the ad, called "The Gaythering Storm."
Watch for yourself below:
Danielle Fishel is no stranger to gossip. After all, the former Boy Meets World star romanced *NSYNC’s Lance Bass, who came out of the closet in 2006. They dated from 1999-2000, and remain cordial.
Now the single beauty, 27, returns to TV as a host for celeb news show The Dish, which airs on Style Network. She opened up to me about her life with Lance, current outlook on love and heading back to college.
What is your relationship like with Lance these days?
Lance and I are very good friends. I absolutely adore him, and I support him in everything he does. I actually went to go see him dance at Dancing With The Stars a couple times. We talk via text, and we see each other when we can, and keep each other updated on what’s going on. Our lives take us all over the place, so I don’t get to see him nearly as often as I’d like, but we stay in touch regularly.
What was your reaction when you found out he was gay?
Well, I found out many years before he went public with it. I found out when he had a Halloween party at his house, and I was out one night with him at his house, and we just openly talked about it. I was like ‘we’ve never really discussed this, but I’ve heard all these rumors.’ It was kind of just accepted amongst our friends that he was gay, but we had never addressed it face-to-face. So I just asked him, ‘are you gay?’ and he was like ‘yeah.’ I was like ‘all right, cool. I’m happy for you. I’m happy that you were able to come to this realization.’
I was really happy after he was able to go public with it because I don’t think anybody should have to live their life in a way where they feel like they’re keeping a secret.
Of course not! Now when you were dating him, did you ever suspect?
I didn’t, but I was a little naïve because I was 17. I didn’t really have a lot of experience in relationships, but my mom had actually suspected and had said something to me after we broke up. She asked me if I thought it was a possibility, and at first my reaction was like ‘Nooo!’ And then, the more I thought about it, I was like ‘hm, maybe.’
After we broke up, I started thinking about it and I started hearing things from people we were friends with. I was like ‘OK, I wish he had felt more comfortable at that time to be honest with me then’ but I respect his decision and the way he handled everything. He was nothing but a great boyfriend and an incredible gentleman.
You found out after you guys broke up?
Yes, I found out after we broke up.
And how far did you guys get? Was he the kissing-only kind of boyfriend?
Yeah, we never slept together. We never had sex or anything. I was a virgin all through my relationship with Lance, and then some. It was more like a kissing, high school-style relationship. The funny part about it is that we traveled a lot together, so we were staying in hotel rooms together, and then when I moved out of my parents’ house, he would come stay with me at my parents’ house in Manhattan Beach. So we spent a lot of time together where that stuff could’ve happened, but it never really did.
Again, I was naïve and 17 and a really good girl, and didn’t want to ask questions. I just assumed he was a real gentleman.
What advice would you give others who might be in the same situation – when they find out their significant other is gay?
I would just be very supportive. That’s a tough situation for anybody to be in, to come out of the closet, ever, but especially when you’re young.
A lot of people thought I was going to take it really personally – like ‘are you mad? Do you feel like you were lied to?’ and I was like ‘no, I don’t.’ I understand where he was at. He wasn’t really sure what was going on in his life, and he was trying to come to terms with ‘was this something he thought he could change or not change?’
One of the nicest things Lance ever said to me was, ‘I knew if I wasn’t going to be happy being in a relationship with you, then I wasn’t going to be able to be happy being in a relationship with any woman.’
I just would tell someone in my situation now just to not take it personally. It has nothing to do with you. They’re just trying to find their own way. The best thing you can do for someone is to be supportive and for that situation, to not just think about yourself.
I know you said you were young and you guys had broken up, but did you feel confident in your ability to find a straight guy after that? How did it impact you?
I do, I did. I didn’t feel like ‘oh my God, they’re all gay.’ I have actually been very fortunate that I’ve met a lot of really wonderful straight men in my life — and a lot of really wonderful gay men in my life.
But I will say I don’t assume anybody is straight anymore. I’m always like ‘hm, I wonder if he’s gay.’ I do think about that now, but I also don’t assume that every guy is gay. [laughs]
What is your love life like now?
I’m single. This is the first time I’ve been single in a while, and I’m enjoying it actually. I’m finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.
And I feel like maybe I’m a little bit of a late bloomer to be doing this, but I’m really focusing on me and my career and what I want to do and going back to school. I’m going to a J.C. [junior college] by my house in Orange County, and once I get my associates, I’m going to transfer most likely to U.C. Irvine. l’m getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy. I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
I’m not really even thinking about trying to find another relationship right now. If it happens, it happens and it would be great because I do ultimately want to get married and have a family some day. But right now I’m really enjoying Danielle time.
What’s the best part of being on your own?
The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you’re in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice. I’ve lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great. I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else’s schedule.
Catch Danielle on The Dish, which airs on Style Network.
Danielle Fishel has dater’s block. She’d love to marry one day but can’t forget her romance with former ’Nsync-er Lance Bass, who came out in 2006.
“I don’t assume anybody is straight anymore,” the Boy Meets World Star, 27, who hosts Style Network’s The Dish, tells OK!. “I’m always like, ‘Hmm, wonder if he’s gay?’ ”
She and Lance were never intimate in their 1999–2000 relationship, she says. “I was naive, 17 and a good girl!” After they split, she confronted Lance, who told her, “ ‘I knew if I wasn’t happy with you, I wasn’t going to be happy in a relationship with any woman.’ ”
Danielle adds, “I wish he’d felt he could have been honest with me then!” Despite that, she and Lance are still friendly — and she hopes to follow him on Dancing With the Stars: “There could be no better way to get into incredible shape!” she says.
As Brooke Burke and Derek Hough were celebrating their win on DWTS Tuesday night, the buzz behind the scenes was about a report that second-place finisher, football legend Warren Sapp, had allegedly roughed Derek up!
According to TMZ.com, Warren had shown up several hours late to a rehearsal for the show’s group dance, and later complained he couldn’t follow the routine. When the professionals told Warren it was his fault because he showed up late, TMZ reported that the retired linebacker allegedly threw Derek against a wall!
While Warren wouldn’t address the alleged fight, tersely telling reporters after the finale to “ask Derek” about it, Derek did say, “This has been blown way out of proportion. Warren and I exchanged a few words at rehearsal that lasted seconds. The idea that Warren would do physical harm to me or anyone is outrageous. We’re all become good friends during the season.”
But pro Corky Ballas, who was teamed up with Cloris Leachman this season and has been close to Derek for years as his dance teacher and friend, told OK!, “I think that Warren thinks this is a football field. I mean this in a good way. All his life, they get mad at themselves and angry so they can get out there and play well so he’s only doing what his instincts are, under pressure with adrenalin.”
Added Corky, “I told Derek, ‘let it go right off your [back].’ It’s part of psyching people out. Some psych-out tactics work. It doesn’t work on Derek.”
Comedian Jeffrey Ross, who was the first contestant eliminated this season, but who came back to perform on the show again this week, told OK!, “I happened to be at that rehearsal and they got into a little thing, but I think it has more to do with the intensity of the moment; guys having to coordinate their moods and their travel schedules and their work schedules, and things bubble up and honestly, they’re all teammates at this point. There’s no losers here.”
Derek’s close friend and fellow DWTS dancer Mark Ballas also said the incident was blown out of proportion, but admitted to OK! that the hit ABC show can be a pressure cooker!
“There are stressful times and when you’re working together, sometimes people get heated at each other,” Mark explained. “When you’re together 24 hours a day and you’re working, sometimes you just talk to each other out of frustration. Things like that happen. But both of them are cool.”
By Carole Glines
SPOILER ALERT: Read no further if you Tivo’d last night’s Dancing With the Stars results show!!
All season long on Dancing With the Stars, Brooke Burke and partner Derek Hough looked like the twosome to beat. And Tuesday night, their dream came true as the consistent couple won the disco ball trophy! Football great Warren Sapp finished a surprise second after his explosive freestyle performance Monday night with partner Kym Johnson — and former boy-bander Lance Bass came in third with pro Lacey Schwimmer.
The always-lovely Brooke, perhaps best known for her numerous modeling credits and hosting TV shows like Wild On!… and Rock Star said, “It’s been such an incredible experience and to end it this way is huge. I’m at such a loss for words!”
Her pro partner Derek, who took his first trophy after several seasons on the hit ABC show, said, “the blood, the sweat the tears… the pulled hamstrings, the feet, everything was so worth it.”
Delighted winner Brooke, who injured her foot earlier in what was an injury plagued season of the show, said, “My feet are okay, but I have a couple of new little pulled muscles.”
Still, all she could do was smile. The mother of four said her trophy will be rotating amongst her daughters’ rooms in her house. Brooke’s fiancé, actor, David Charvet, dad to two of her kids, was teary-eyed as she won, and OK! spotted Dr. Garth Fisher, her ex-husband and the father of her two older children, also watching as Brooke and Derek earned a perfect 30 for their Viennese waltz. The pair bested Lance and Lacey’s score of 28 for their jitterbug and Warren and Kym’s 27 for the hustle.
Brooke told OK! about her future, “I have no idea what’s coming up next and I never do. I love hosting, it’s something I think comes natural and I enjoy although I’d like to keep pushing the envelope a little bit. Ideally, I’d love to do a sitcom. I love working with a live audience.
“But I’m enjoying dancing so much. It’s premature but there’s been some interest in me doing a dance production and I think it would be really exciting. For me, it would all depend on what works for my family as well. I’m open to trying new things.”
But first, Brooke plans to chill out over the holidays: “I’m mentally and physically fried. I’m going to be on the East Coast with a lot of relatives. David and the kids are going to meet me there. I’m going to do nothing but eat and have great quality family time. It sounds so corny but I was looking back this week and thinking about all the things that you take for granted as a mother—you have your kids every day and all those everyday responsibilities. I miss doing all those little things so much. I’m ready to get back home and back into the groove with them and get back to being mom again.”
Meanwhile, Derek and his best friend, DWTS pro Mark Ballas, who have a band together, got a record deal and expect to release their music in March. Derek hopes actress Shannon Elizabeth — who became his girlfriend after they were teamed up on DWTS last season — will join him on the new DWTS nationwide tour, which begins in San Diego on Dec. 17.
Although Lance finished third when many thought he’d get at least second, the musician said he and Lacey have no regrets. “What a ride! We couldn’t be happier. Brooke so deserved to win.” After all, Lance got a new body out of the show: “I’ve lost 15 pounds," he told OK!. "I’m just going to blow up after next week. I eat like crap and I won’t be dancing as much.”
Lance also feels he earned “a lot more confidence. There are a lot of things I didn’t believe in myself before and now I’m just so happy.” Lance revealed he has become close friends with Brooke: “we’ve been each other’s support system through this whole season. She’s definitely helped me when the judges were attacking me, she’s like, ‘don’t worry about i.’”
Next, Lance plans to do some college speaking engagements for a week talking about the music industry and his experiences on DWTS. Then he’ll be performing with Lacey on the DWTS tour.
Lance said he signed up because “I miss touring so much. I haven’t been on tour in like seven years and I’m happiest on a bus. That’s just the way I was raised and it’ll feel like home. You play lots of video games, watch scary movies, eat really bad food. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I love sleeping in a bunk, it rocks me to sleep.”
His partner Lacey will be with Lance on the tour, and also has said she’d love to come back to DWTS next season, which starts in March.
Warren, who works as an analyst for the Showtime series Inside the NFL, said, “I don’t get a day off ‘til Feb. 11, after the Pro Bowl.” The 13-year NFL veteran said he’s going to miss Kym and the show so much, “I told her next Wednesday, I’m going to text her, ‘Where are you at, baby? Send me a picture! I should be dancing right now!’ ”
Warren said he’d love to join his pro Kym for one stop on the DWTS tour if his busy schedule as a football commentator permits — because he thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
“It’s like going to five Super Bowls,” he said of the show. “Every time it got a little bigger, a little better. I’m like, where can I go from here? I’m going to try the tour at least one day.”
By Carole Glines
In what is likely the most riveting final performance night in the brief history of Dancing With the Stars, all three of the remaining couples pulled out all the stops on Monday night.
None of the couples — Warren Sapp and Kym Johnson, Brooke Burke and Derek Hough, Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer — made any major mistakes on Monday and they all provided non-stop entertainment in performing a freestyle routine and a group samba. So it should come as no surprise that everyone was smiling backstage when OK! caught up with them after the show.
Frontrunners Brooke and Derek solidified their hold on the top spot by earning a 28 for their samba and a perfect 30 for their freestyle, a joyful tribute to the classic musical Grease.
Judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli both said it was the best freestyle they had ever seen on DWTS, now in its seventh season. And their combined score of 58 out of 60 looks hard to beat in Tuesday night’s finale.
Backstage afterwards, Brooke told OK! Grease is the word! “It’s one of my favorite movies and my kids’ favorite movies.” As for who deserves the credit for getting into the final round, she put it squarely in partner Derek’s lap.
“Everything we’ve done great has really been from him teaching me and him getting me to where I need to be," she explained. "I feel we’ve done everything we needed to do this season no matter what happens tomorrow.”
Although she’s had a fabulous time on the show, mother-of-four Brooke said she’s looking forward to the end of the punishing rehearsal schedule: “I miss my kids so desperately.” After tomorrow night’s final results she plans to, “grab my babies!”
Lance and his partner Lacey got a score of 26 for their samba and very solid 27 for their hip-hop freestyle routine, for a total of 53. The former boy-bander likened the night to the final exams in school. “You show the judges what you’ve learned and hope that they like it," he explained. "They loved it tonight. I think everyone did such an amazing job.”
Although his hip-hop routine scored lower than Brooke’s more traditional freestyle, Lance said they couldn’t have picked another style of dance. “It’s what our fans have been asking for since day one," he said. "We finally got to do it and I hope everyone enjoyed it because we sure did. Even Len loved it!”
Still, when pressed by OK! about the judging on the freestyle, for which he received the lowest score of the finalists, Lance admitted, “I was hoping for higher scores. That’s just the theme of the whole season for them and us. I would not expect anything less — one point lower than everyone else.”
The surprising dance journey of gridiron great Warren continued, as he and Kym earned 25 points for their samba and 28 for their freestyle, pushing them into a tie with Lance and Lacey with a cumulative 53.
The retired linebacker’s move of catching Kym with his arms extended in front of him made the crowd gasp, and afterwards, he told OK! the amazing maneuver is called “the waterfall.” Kym admitted, “It’s scary for me because for a minute I’m completely airborne.” Competitive Warren said, “That’s my favorite move! I wish they had let us lift from the beginning because I would have broke down some of these little fellas early.”
As for earning a score of ten from Len, the future Hall-of-Famer exclaimed, “that’s what I came for. I can go home now.” He added that judge Carrie Ann Inaba also “was giving us a lot of love tonight.” Kym said. “She said Warren was the most improved and she said our dance was her favorite.”
After the show, Len told OK! it was DWTS’ most incredible night: “I can’t imagine there’s ever been a final like we saw tonight that would ever be better. I loved the samba they all joined in on and the freestyles were so different.”
Tune in Tuesday night to see who will take home the disco ball trophy!
By Carole Glines
