Check out Frosted Tips by Lance Bass

Every Monday, Lance Bass and co-host Michael Turchin interview boy-band adjacent alumni and discuss life in the boy band world as well as pick their brains for some “frosted tips.” Follow @frostedtipswithlance to catch the latest guest updates and submit your fan questions!

First episode with JC Chasez is up now!

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JC speaks with ET Canada on 20 years of *NSYNC’s Hiatus, Merch Plans

JC spoke with ET Canada before the Elton John Party on Sunday evening. He mentions a new merch drop coming soon. As always, stay tuned to *NSYNC Online. As soon as we hear any new information about merch, we will share with all of you!

Joey Fatone says parenting is ‘a little different’ after divorce

When Joey Fatone’s first daughter, Briahna, was born in 2001, the singer was still touring with boy band NSYNC.

“I was younger and was trying to feed my kid,” Fatone tells Yahoo Life. “The first steps and things like that, I didn’t get to witness.”

The second time around, when his daughter Kloey was born in 2010, Fatone says he was able to be more present.

“I wasn’t working as much as far as travel,” says the 45-year-old. “I really got more hands-on with it.”

Fatone says his parenting style changed again in 2019, when he got divorced from actress Kelly Baldwin after 15 years of marriage.

“It’s a little different once you get divorced,” he shares. “Now you’re on your own, per se. My advice for single parents, especially, is patience. That and, ‘Don’t do it!'”

“I’m kidding,” he says, “but people really don’t understand the negatives. People don’t understand that you have to take your kid here and there and you can’t just go out and party. They don’t understand that parents have a responsibility and they can’t just throw it away, especially when they’re on their own with their kids.”

When it comes to parenting two girls, Fatone says he and Baldwin started building an open line of communication with their daughters early on.

“I never had a live-in nanny,” says Fatone. “Normally a person of my stature would have a live-in nanny. We had babysitters, but we never had live-in nannies because guess what happens? When somebody gets hurt, who do they go to? Not Mommy. Not Daddy. The nanny.”

Fatone believes that strategy worked: His daughters, now 20 and 11, still come to him to talk about everything from homesickness while traveling to more intimate concerns.

“I could write a freakin’ book,” he jokes. “I was there the first time my little one had her ‘womanly shower,’ we will say, and that was a surprise to me and the comedy that evolved was having two iPads with my wife and my other daughter FaceTiming with my little one because it was me by myself.

“I didn’t know how to put the pad on the panties and fold it under with the sticky part,” he explains. “Picture that one: She calls me in the bathroom and I walk in and there’s blood — I didn’t know what to do.

“Mostly women are the ones who talk to their daughters about this,” he adds. “I have two daughters and when I have them, Mommy’s not around, so how do I deal with that?”

The singer and TV host, who spoke with Yahoo Life as part of his work promoting his Fatone Calzone sandwich with Schlotzsky’s, says whatever the topic, he’s learned to be as truthful with his girls as possible.

“My older one asked me once about the birds and the bees, so I kind of gave her the explanation,” he recalls. “Of course my ex was like, ‘Did you tell her she could die? She could get diseases? She could get AIDS?’ I was like, ‘No, first let’s tell her about the better things about it and then we can tell her why you’ve got to be careful.'”

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Former NSYNC member Joey Fatone says parenting his two daughters is a different experience since his 2019 divorce from actress Kelly Baldwin. (Photo: Getty; designed by Quinn Lemmers)
Former NSYNC member Joey Fatone says parenting his two daughters is a different experience since his 2019 divorce from actress Kelly Baldwin. (Photo: Getty; designed by Quinn Lemmers)

Welcome to So Mini Ways, Yahoo Life’s parenting series on the joys and challenges of child rearing.

When Joey Fatone’s first daughter, Briahna, was born in 2001, the singer was still touring with boy band NSYNC.

“I was younger and was trying to feed my kid,” Fatone tells Yahoo Life. “The first steps and things like that, I didn’t get to witness.”

The second time around, when his daughter Kloey was born in 2010, Fatone says he was able to be more present.

“I wasn’t working as much as far as travel,” says the 45-year-old. “I really got more hands-on with it.”

Fatone says his parenting style changed again in 2019, when he got divorced from actress Kelly Baldwin after 15 years of marriage.

“It’s a little different once you get divorced,” he shares. “Now you’re on your own, per se. My advice for single parents, especially, is patience. That and, ‘Don’t do it!'”

“I’m kidding,” he says, “but people really don’t understand the negatives. People don’t understand that you have to take your kid here and there and you can’t just go out and party. They don’t understand that parents have a responsibility and they can’t just throw it away, especially when they’re on their own with their kids.”https://www.instagram.com/p/CWj_UflFX1B/embed/captioned?cr=1&v=12

When it comes to parenting two girls, Fatone says he and Baldwin started building an open line of communication with their daughters early on.

“I never had a live-in nanny,” says Fatone. “Normally a person of my stature would have a live-in nanny. We had babysitters, but we never had live-in nannies because guess what happens? When somebody gets hurt, who do they go to? Not Mommy. Not Daddy. The nanny.”

Fatone believes that strategy worked: His daughters, now 20 and 11, still come to him to talk about everything from homesickness while traveling to more intimate concerns.

“I could write a freakin’ book,” he jokes. “I was there the first time my little one had her ‘womanly shower,’ we will say, and that was a surprise to me and the comedy that evolved was having two iPads with my wife and my other daughter FaceTiming with my little one because it was me by myself.

“I didn’t know how to put the pad on the panties and fold it under with the sticky part,” he explains. “Picture that one: She calls me in the bathroom and I walk in and there’s blood — I didn’t know what to do.

“Mostly women are the ones who talk to their daughters about this,” he adds. “I have two daughters and when I have them, Mommy’s not around, so how do I deal with that?”

The singer and TV host, who spoke with Yahoo Life as part of his work promoting his Fatone Calzone sandwich with Schlotzsky’s, says whatever the topic, he’s learned to be as truthful with his girls as possible.

“My older one asked me once about the birds and the bees, so I kind of gave her the explanation,” he recalls. “Of course my ex was like, ‘Did you tell her she could die? She could get diseases? She could get AIDS?’ I was like, ‘No, first let’s tell her about the better things about it and then we can tell her why you’ve got to be careful.'”https://www.instagram.com/p/COqXJ61nk3X/embed/captioned?cr=1&v=12

Still, Fatone says parenting girls is not for the faint of heart.

“It sucks because they’ve got your heart,” he says. “It’s bad news. That whole ‘daddy’s girl’ thing rings true.”

Fatone has a long love of cooking, having made an appearance on Food Network’s Chopped All-Stars and hosted My Family Recipe Rocks on the Live Well Network. Food is an important part of his parenting style, too.

“Italian cooking and our love of food went on from generation to generation,” Fatone says, crediting his dad for teaching him how to make family recipes like meatballs, marinara sauce and arancini — fried rice balls.

“I love to cook. because it’s exciting,” he says. “I try to come out of my comfort zone and make different things, especially when I’m with my kids. It forces you to go, ‘OK what do I have in my kitchen now? What can I make?’ And it helps them figure out what they like.”

So what advice does Fatone, who says he’ll change his name on social media to Joey Calzone for the month of February to celebrate his role of Italian ambassador to Schlotzsky’s, have for other dads?

“I’d tell any dad out there to really enjoy it,” he says. “Embrace the fun things, the silly things, the heartfelt things. Embrace it all because that’s how you navigate through life. And then as you get older, when these things come around a second time, you’ll know how to handle them.”

Read the entire article on Yahoo.

Chris Kirkpatrick plans to ‘cry myself to sleep in the Diary Room’ on Celebrity Big Brother

The cast members of Celebrity Big Brother season 3 are presumably excited for their new adventure (which begins Feb. 3 on CBS), even if only for the paycheck that comes with it. But there are certain things about being locked away with strangers that they can’t exactly be looking forward to. Even the Big Brother fans in the cast know that it won’t be all unicorns and rainbows… unless, of course, there is a challenge where they have to dress up in unicorn unitards while collecting hidden rainbows for OTEV.

Boy-band legend Chris Kirkpatrick is an avid Big Brother watcher, and he senses loneliness through the front door. “I think I’m least looking forward to not seeing my family or having that connection with the outside world that I usually have,” the former NSYNC crooner tells EW. “It’s going to be difficult being cut off from everything and not even being able to hug my son every morning or kiss my wife every morning or things like that.”

However, Kirkpatrick has come up with the perfect solution, while also showing off his BB knowledge: “Hopefully I’ll deal with and just cry myself to sleep in the Diary Room.”

Read more on EW.com.

Chris on “Marcus and Eric Learn Stuff from Smarter People” Podcast

Check out Chris’ interview with the “Marcus and Eric Learn Stuff from Smarter People” podcast. It is available on Apple Music podcasts.

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Chris Kirkpatrick on ‘A Very Boy Band Holiday’ & the Legacy of *NSYNC’s ‘Home for Christmas’

BC is heating things up with the sounds of the season courtesy of A Very Boy Band Holiday. The special sees members from *NSYNC, Boyz II Men, New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, New Edition, and O-Town assembling to bring their vocal stylings to recognizable tunes sure to make your spirits bright.

“We have done a few projects over the years with different members from different groups, but never at this level,” says executive producer Joe Mulvihill. “To see them all have mutual respect for each other and really understand what each other has been through is a unique combo that is fun to see on camera “

Chris Kirkpatrick can attest to the fun factor. We caught up with the *NSYNC member as he previews this nostalgic and festive evening of song.

How were you approached about this special?

Chris Kirkpatrick: I know this was Erik-Michael Estrada from O-Town’s idea. We have a lot of mutual friends in common, but it went through respective management.

It feels like a gathering of this boy band fraternity. Did it feel more like a family reunion on set?

I think, for the most part, it was a reunion. With the Boyz II Men guys, New Edition, and even the New Kids, these were these bands we never worked with that much. 98 Degrees, O-Town, all those bands we’ve done so much with that we’ve all become good friends over the years. I’ve also done a lot with Boyz II Men [more] in the past years than in previous ones.

How would describe the atmosphere?

It was so much fun. We were all in each other’s trailers telling stories, talking about all the times our paths have crossed and what we’ve done. Having Boyz II Men, New Kids, and New Edition was cool to have there because we had the opportunity to say how they’ve influenced us with what we did. We talked about how when we started we used to [sing] a lot of their songs … We could have gone on for hours. It was cool to hear everyone’s perspective on the business.

What were some of the songs you were excited to perform?

We were lucky to be able to do one of [*NSYNC’s] songs “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,” which was a lot of fun. It was cool having all the guys taking a verse on our song.

*NSYNC’s holiday album Home for Christmas was such a big success. And the song “Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday” remains iconic.

When we [first] decided to do a Christmas album, we had all these industry standards on it. We had our take on those songs … the arrangements were unbelievable. Then when it came time to do “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,” JC [Chasez] and Justin [Timberlake] had a hand in writing it. At first, it was like “what a great song” and it was our own song. [We thought] people were going to go back to the standards, but then it came out and people took to it, and really it became its own industry-standard of Christmas songs right now. It is very flattering.

The boy bands of the ’80s and ’90s have such staying power. What are your thoughts on the new generation of boy bands?

One Direction is probably one of my favorites. I freakin’ love them. BTS is amazing in what they are doing. You can see with bands like that the choreography is tighter, the music is more elaborate. They have to take it to the next level, and all these bands have been doing it. It is fun to watch. We got classified as a boy band, but we always considered ourselves a vocal group. Looking up to Boyz II Men and all the vocal groups we looked up to, I think that is what keeps that staying power in music with the harmonies and the arrangements we did with each song.

We’re about 20 years since *NSYNC’s last album, yet you’ve still maintained that bond.

We’ve done a great job keeping in touch with each other regardless of what we’re all doing. We support each other in everyone’s endeavors. We grew up together. We were brothers.. that kind of family, you don’t just disband. We make a point any of us are in the same town, we get a hold of each other. Even when we were out there filming, I got to see Lance [Bass’] new babies. I had dinner with JC. Justin was here in Nashville. Then I did the show with Joey [Fatone]. We try to make time for each other, especially for birthdays and special occasions. Any time the other guys say, “Hey, let’s take a trip and hang out,” [we do it.].

The other groups featured here have done reunion tours or have been regularly touring. Where do you stand on any *NSYNC reunion plans?

I will never say never, but we’re all still doing our own things and carving out our own niches in life. The band thing hasn’t really been a thing we can all come to terms with and say, “I’m ready to do this.” We haven’t come to an agreement on doing anything together. We’ve tried, but there are too many variables involved. It doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards right now.

At this point anyway. Maybe when you’re all 60.

You can never say never. They’ll be 60, I’ll be like 90. But who knows.

What else do you have going on?

Personally, I’ve got a son who just turned 4, and takes up a lot of my time. Luckily, now I’m at a point in my career where I can leave for weekends and go do gigs whether it is ATCK (All The Cool Kids) with AJ [McLean] of the Backstreet Boys or doing [Vegas show] “After Party” with Joey or hosting, I’m lucky I can fly out and do my job and spend the week home and take my kids to school. It’s perfect.

Will this special be an annual tradition?

That’s what we are hoping for. We are hoping it’s well-received, it was a lot of fun to do. It has cheesy moments [but] it also has got the cool moments you go, “Wow, these songs are great. These vocalists are great.” I think it’s a great holiday idea because you’re getting collaborations with bands you used to look at as rivals. Now they’re coming together for Christmas. Just for us to be back out there performing and performing with these other bands, it’s what Christmas needs. It was a lot of fun.

A Very Boy Band Holiday, Monday, December 6, 8/7c, ABC

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