Justin Timberlake Reunites With *NSYNC, Those Handsome Devils

The boys of *NSYNC got together on August 8th to toast bandmate JC Chasez’s 40th birthday, and one thing was abundantly clear: these men have made a deal with the devil, because all five former boy banders look handsome as heck.

Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone toasted Chasez in person, and prompted every girl over the age of 25 to dust off that ILUVJUSTIN playlist (downloaded illegally on Napster, natch).

What’s even cuter about this whole reunion was the fact that Timberlake was the only one to Instagram a photo.  

“JC’s 40th… And, if you don’t know now you know…,” the Tennessee native wrote.

Kirkpatrick and Fatone used Ye Old Twitter, and Bass was probably having too good a time to post anything.

The last time all five men were together was when Justin Timberlake accepted the MTV Video Vanguard Award.  They joined their bandmate briefly during his performance, something Chasex told Ryan Seacrest felt just like old times.

“Essentially everybody has remained the same,” he explained.

“And again, we all see each other at different times, working on different things, but this is the first time that we had a rehearsal together in over 10 years.

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“So everybody’s going, ‘Can we go through this slowly one more time?’ That part was pretty funny.

“Everything is memory, muscle memory, and everything started to click,” Chazed added.  “And before you know it we were good to go.”

Don’t expect a reunion like 98 Degrees or Backstreet Boys, though.  Once everyone split in the early 2000s, there was no going back.

Timberlake told Oprah Winfrey in 2014 that for him, being a solo artist was all he ever wanted.

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“I would wake up every morning feeling this more and more of an urge to step out on my own,” Timberlake revealed on Oprah’s Master Class.

Timberlake knew full well that leaving the group at the height of its popularity was a huge risk,

“‘Why wouldn’t you ride this out?"” Timberlake would imagine others saying. “‘You’re the biggest group in the world. Why would you walk away from this?”

Johnny Depp: Ready to Defend Himself at Trial!

Things between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are getting worse by the day. 

The former flames are in the midst of a bitter divorce battle after Heard claimed that Depp struck her with a cell phone, leaving bruising all over her face. 

Heard was quick to get a restraining order against Depp, but it appears that Depp has a whole host of witnesses to support his claim that Amber fabricated the whole thing. 

This really is one of those feuds that has so much new information by the day, that it’s hard to keep track of it all. 

The 2 responding officers on the night Amber alleges that Johnny attacked her will be part of Depp’s witness list. 

They will both testify that they saw nothing out of the ordinary when they responded to the call. 

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They didn’t see an injury, or anything broken at the home. 

There’s even the five concierges within the building that have said in depositions that there was no injury on Heard’s face between May 21 and May 27. 

If that wasn’t enough, there’s even 2 security guards who were in the unit on May 21 that will say that Depp did not strike Heard. 

It sure seems like Depp has a lot of witnesses fighting his corner. 

In fact, there’s nearly two dozen!

Amber will be called in as a hostile witness. 

Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Amber. 

Her past will be dredged up at the trial. 

Remember that time Amber was arrested for domestic violence? That will be a talking point in the trial. 

If you recall, Tasya Van Ree came to the defense of Amber’s when details of her arrest were made public. 

Heard was meant to testify at a deposition on August 6, but Amber has since claimed that Johnny Depp’s lawyers blocked her from testifying. 

“Although she was ready, willing and able to go forward with her deposition, it was not taken by Johnny’s attorneys,” reads a statement issued to TMZ.

“She waited for 10 hours and at no time did Amber ever refuse to start the deposition. There was nothing preventing Johnny’s counsel from commencing the deposition.”

Will the drama ever come to an end for these two?

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Saturday Night Live Shocker: Who"s Out?!?

There’s been a shake-up at Saturday Night Live.

And we are none too pleased about it.

In stunning news broken by TV Line, neither Taran Killam nor Jay Pharoah will return for Season 42 of this iconic sketch comedy show.

The former was one of the show’s most utilized players over the past couple years, while Pharoah’s impersonations never cease to blow us away.

(Challenge: close your eyes. Play videos of Denzel Washington and Jay Pharoah on your computer and just try to tell them apart.)

An NBC spokesperson has confirmed the departures of two cast members who had each been with the program for six seasons.

Killam simply didn’t have the seventh year of his contract picked up… and he isn’t certain why.

“I had sort of had it in my head I would make this upcoming year my last year, but then heard they weren’t going to pick up my contract,” he told Uproxx.

“I was never given a reason why, really.”

Killam added that he’s directing the movie Why We’re Killing Gunther.

He said that some of the post-production process on the film would have coincided with SNL‘s production schedule.

So maybe that played some role? Even though it’s the sort of thing that easily could have been discussed between both sides?

“I honestly don’t know what happened on the other side, but I do know we had expressed I have work on this film and in bonding this picture, that has to get cleared with SNL,” he said.

Killam will probably be best remembered for his impressions of Matthew McConaughey, Marco Rubio and Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy.

Pharoah, meanwhile, famously channeled such stars as Jay-Z, Will Smith, President Obama and GOP presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson.

Many thought he should have received more air time, although impersonations seemed to be the only trick in his (talented) bag.

Executive Producer Lorne Michaels is yet to comment on this casting news.

He’s expected to introduce many new main players over the next few weeks, with Season 42 set to bow in September.

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Curt Schilling Threatens Run for President

Curt Schilling was a borderline Hall of Fame pitcher during his career with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox.

Now, the controversial ex-hurler thinks he’d be a top notch President of the United States.

Having become more known for his xenophobia, sexism and all-around bigotry ever since retiring from Major League Baseball, Schilling issued quite a threat o Facebook this past Sunday:

He has his sights set on the Oval Office.

In a post that is tragically gaining momentum online, Schilling wrote that his plan is to win state office first and then be in the White House in eight years  - “or 4 if by some amazing illegal event this country elects another clinton.”

(It’s unclear what “illegal” event is being referred to here. A democratic, nationwide vote that is not controlled by the federal government?)

Might Schilling be joking around? We guess.

But he isn’t exactly known for having a sense of humor… and we all thought Donald Trump was joking around back in the day, didn’t we?

In April, Schilling was fired from ESPN after posing a meme about transgender individuals in response to flak North Carolina has received over its “bathroom law.”

This is the law that requires people to only use the bathroom that corresponds to their birth gender.

“A man is a man no matter what they call themselves,” Schilling wrote at the time, along with the following picture.

“I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.”

Schilling did not take his firing quietly, however.

He proceeded to go on multiple rants in which he accused various ESPN employees of racism and said the network discriminates against Republicans.

About a year ago, meanwhile, Schilling was suspended by ESPN for comparing radical members of Islam to Nazis.

And if you think his views have calmed down in any way of late, consider a couple recent memes he shared on Facebook.

First, Schilling said he “loves” this one:

Then, he blamed the “war on cops” on President Obama via this image:

We’d love to make a few quips here about Curt Schilling as a Presidential candidate.

But the existence of Donald Trump has made that impossible.

There’s nothing funny about bigots thinking they should be the most powerful person on the planet. There’s even less funny about the millions of people that agree with them.

Schilling should go back to pretending he had blood on his sock during Game Six of the 2004 American League Championship Series.

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