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4 days ago
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Iconic '90s Singer Looks Unrecognizable From Boy Band Days
Iconic '90s Singer Looks Unrecognizable From Boy Band Days originally appeared on Parade. This iconic singer was part of one of the biggest groups of the '90s — and helped define the boy band era. Now 52, 98 Degrees member Justin Jeffre looks nearly unrecognizable from his fresh-faced pop star days, but he's aging with grace. In a recent Instagram video, Jeffre proudly showed off his white beard, fully embracing the salt-and-pepper look. Jeffre and his bandmates, Nick and Drew Lachey, along with Jeff Timmons, have recently reunited, recording new versions of some of their biggest hits. In the video, posted in June, the group sings 'Tremble,' a newer track off their latest album Full Circle, which they've been actively promoting for the past few months. Back in April, Jeffre gave a subtle nod to their past by posting a video from inside a bathtub — the reference didn't go unnoticed by longtime fans. Why the tub? It's a throwback to the band's 1999 music video for their cover of Mark Wills' 'I Do (Cherish You),' in which Jeffre proposed to a woman relaxing in a bubble bath. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 98° (@98degrees) Fans instantly picked up on the reference. One user wrote, 'Justin in a bathtub 🛁🤣 definitely accurate!' while another added, 'BATHTUB!' with the hashtag #IYKYK. While fans are thrilled to see the group back together, it's been a while since they dropped something new (i.e. 2021). 98 Degrees first rose to fame in the mid-to-late '90s after teaming up with Mariah Carey on 'Thank God I Found You,' which earned them a Grammy nomination and a No. 1 spot on the charts. Their 1997 self-titled debut album put them on the map, but it was 1998's track 'Because of You' that became their breakout hit. 'The Hardest Thing' followed soon after, climbing to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning gold certification. Despite their success, the group disbanded in 2002 and went on a 10-year hiatus before reuniting in 2012. Now, they're back — and proving that some pop stars only get better with time. Iconic '90s Singer Looks Unrecognizable From Boy Band Days first appeared on Parade on Jun 19, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.
Scottish Sun
5 days ago
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- Scottish Sun
90s boyband star looks unrecognizable with grey beard as group reunites for new album and tour – can you guess who?
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NINETIES boyband fans will be left doing a double take when they realize who this singer is. The pop star, 52, is now unrecognizable almost three decades on since he first found fame. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 6 90s boyband fans might struggle to recognise this singer Credit: Instagram 6 He has reunited with his bandmates to record a brand new album Credit: Instagram In a new video, which has been filmed to promote the band's album, he has been captured sitting in an empty bath tub. His facial hair is now more prominent and almost white and he is wearing a blue sweater and a tweed flat cap in the footage. But do you know who it is? The man in question is Justin Jeffre from 98 Degrees. Justin and his 98 Degrees co-stars - brothers Nick and Drew Lachey and Jeff Timmons - have recently reunited and recorded some of their best hits. This includes a cover of the Mark Wills track I Do (Cherish You), which the band released in July 1999. The song reached number 13 in the Billboard Hot 100 and was included on the soundtrack for the British movie Notting Hill, which starred Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. In 98 Degrees' music video for the song, Justin was seen proposing to a woman as she enjoyed a bubble bath. Fans have gone wild for the nostalgic reference after he and Drew mimed along to I Do (Cherish You) to celebrate the band's comeback. A caption alongside the Instagram clip read, "If you're asking if we love you, we do! "And if you're asking where to listen to 'I Do', the answer is anywhere and everywhere! "Drop a comment with your favorite place to sing your heart out!" Replying, one excited 98 Degrees fan said, "Justin in the bathtub!!!!! Perfect!" Another added, "Justin in a bathtub 🛁🤣 definitely accurate!" A third mused, "Bathtub of course!" And someone else wrote, 'BATHTUB!' #IYKYK [If You Know You Know]." OLD FRIENDS Justin and his bandmates all hail from Ohio but were put together as a band by Jeff in Los Angeles in the late 90s. They were later snapped up by a record label and had achieved 8 top 40 singles by 2000. In 1999, they provided guest vocals on Mariah Carey's song Thank God I Found You and achieved a Number 1 and a Grammy Award nomination. The group split in 2002. Still riding high on the back of 98 Degrees' fame, 51-year-old Nick married pop star Jessica Simpson that same year and they starred together in the MTV reality show Newlyweds. Drew, 48, and his wife Leah, who he is still married to, were also regulars on Newlyweds. Nick and Jessica split in 2006 and he has since remarried. He and wife Vanessa Lachey present the Netflix show Love Is Blind together. 98 Degrees reformed in 2012 and have worked on and off together over the years. The band are now firmly back together and have recorded a new album, Full Circle. At the end of May, they travelled to Manila to perform a reunion show. They will be touring across Canada next month before playing several dates in New Jersey, New York and California in August. 6 The singer is Justin Jeffre from 98 Degrees Credit: Getty 6 He famously proposed to a woman in a bathtub in the video for I Do (Cherish You) Credit: 98 Degrees/ VEVO 6 The band is made up of Jeff, Nick, Drew and Justin Credit: Getty
The Irish Sun
5 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
90s boyband star looks unrecognizable with grey beard as group reunites for new album and tour – can you guess who?
NINETIES boyband fans will be left doing a double take when they realize who this singer is. The pop star, 52, is now unrecognizable almost three decades on since he first found fame. 6 90s boyband fans might struggle to recognise this singer Credit: Instagram 6 He has reunited with his bandmates to record a brand new album Credit: Instagram In a new video, which has been filmed to promote the band's album, he has been captured sitting in an empty bath tub. His facial hair is now more prominent and almost white and he is wearing a blue sweater and a tweed flat cap in the footage. But do you know who it is? The man in question is Justin Jeffre from 98 Degrees. Justin and his 98 Degrees co-stars - brothers Nick and Drew Lachey and Jeff Timmons - have recently reunited and recorded some of their best hits. This includes a cover of the Mark Wills track I Do (Cherish You), which the band released in July 1999. The song reached number 13 in the Billboard Hot 100 and was included on the soundtrack for the British movie Notting Hill, which starred Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. In 98 Degrees' music video for the song, Justin was seen proposing to a woman as she enjoyed a bubble bath. Most read in Celebrity Fans have gone wild for the nostalgic reference after he and Drew mimed along to I Do (Cherish You) to celebrate the band's comeback. A caption alongside the Instagram clip read, "If you're asking if we love you, we do! "And if you're asking where to listen to 'I Do', the answer is anywhere and everywhere! "Drop a comment with your favorite place to sing your heart out!" Replying, one excited 98 Degrees fan said, "Justin in the bathtub!!!!! Perfect!" Another added, "Justin in a bathtub 🛁🤣 definitely accurate!" A third mused, "Bathtub of course!" And someone else wrote, 'BATHTUB!' #IYKYK [If You Know You Know]." OLD FRIENDS Justin and his bandmates all hail from Ohio but were put together as a band by Jeff in Los Angeles in the late 90s. They were later snapped up by a record label and had achieved 8 top 40 singles by 2000. In 1999, they provided guest vocals on Mariah Carey's song Thank God I Found You and achieved a Number 1 and a Grammy Award nomination. The group split in 2002. Still riding high on the back of 98 Degrees' fame, 51-year-old Nick married pop star Drew, 48, and his wife Leah, who he is still married to, were also regulars on Newlyweds. Nick and Jessica split in 2006 and he has since remarried. He and wife Vanessa Lachey present the Netflix show Love Is Blind together. 98 Degrees reformed in 2012 and have worked on and off together over the years. Read more on the Irish Sun The band are now firmly back together and have recorded a new album, Full Circle. At the end of May, they travelled to Manila to perform a reunion show. They will be touring across Canada next month before playing several dates in New Jersey , New York and California in August. 6 The singer is Justin Jeffre from 98 Degrees Credit: Getty 6 He famously proposed to a woman in a bathtub in the video for I Do (Cherish You) Credit: 98 Degrees/ VEVO 6 The band is made up of Jeff, Nick, Drew and Justin Credit: Getty 6 They have reunited and recorded a new album called Full Circle Credit: Getty
The Sun
5 days ago
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- The Sun
90s boyband star looks unrecognizable with grey beard as group reunites for new album and tour – can you guess who?
NINETIES boyband fans will be left doing a double take when they realize who this singer is. The pop star, 52, is now unrecognizable almost three decades on since he first found fame. 6 6 In a new video, which has been filmed to promote the band's album, he has been captured sitting in an empty bath tub. His facial hair is now more prominent and almost white and he is wearing a blue sweater and a tweed flat cap in the footage. But do you know who it is? The man in question is Justin Jeffre from 98 Degrees. Justin and his 98 Degrees co-stars - brothers Nick and Drew Lachey and Jeff Timmons - have recently reunited and recorded some of their best hits. This includes a cover of the Mark Wills track I Do (Cherish You), which the band released in July 1999. The song reached number 13 in the Billboard Hot 100 and was included on the soundtrack for the British movie Notting Hill, which starred Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. In 98 Degrees' music video for the song, Justin was seen proposing to a woman as she enjoyed a bubble bath. Fans have gone wild for the nostalgic reference after he and Drew mimed along to I Do (Cherish You) to celebrate the band's comeback. A caption alongside the Instagram clip read, "If you're asking if we love you, we do! "And if you're asking where to listen to 'I Do', the answer is anywhere and everywhere! "Drop a comment with your favorite place to sing your heart out!" Replying, one excited 98 Degrees fan said, "Justin in the bathtub!!!!! Perfect!" Another added, "Justin in a bathtub 🛁🤣 definitely accurate!" A third mused, "Bathtub of course!" And someone else wrote, 'BATHTUB!' #IYKYK [If You Know You Know]." OLD FRIENDS Justin and his bandmates all hail from Ohio but were put together as a band by Jeff in Los Angeles in the late 90s. They were later snapped up by a record label and had achieved 8 top 40 singles by 2000. In 1999, they provided guest vocals on Mariah Carey's song Thank God I Found You and achieved a Number 1 and a Grammy Award nomination. The group split in 2002. Still riding high on the back of 98 Degrees' fame, 51-year-old Nick married pop star Jessica Simpson that same year and they starred together in the MTV reality show Newlyweds. Drew, 48, and his wife Leah, who he is still married to, were also regulars on Newlyweds. Nick and Jessica split in 2006 and he has since remarried. He and wife Vanessa Lachey present the Netflix show Love Is Blind together. 98 Degrees reformed in 2012 and have worked on and off together over the years. The band are now firmly back together and have recorded a new album, Full Circle. At the end of May, they travelled to Manila to perform a reunion show. They will be touring across Canada next month before playing several dates in New Jersey, New York and California in August. 6 6 6
Yahoo
10-06-2025
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'Waiting for Britney Spears': 5 shocking (allegedly true) stories from a former tabloid writer
In his new book, "Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly" — a mix of fact and fiction — music writer and L.A. native Jeff Weiss brings us back to the last gasp of the celebrity gossip-mongering machine of the early aughts. It was the prelapsarian age of the dumb phone, when we weren't all taking photos of everything all the time and paparazzi were commanding six figures for shots of Angelina Jolie's baby bump. Fresh out of college and dreaming of Pulitzer glory, Weiss instead takes a job with Star magazine — called Nova in the book — to pay his rent and winds up being present during ugly episodes of the celebrity stalking era: Britney Spears' meteoric rise and career lows in the early 2000s, a few years before her personal and business affairs were placed under a court-ordered conservatorship controlled by her father, Jamie. Weiss bears witness to this particularly gruesome episode with clenched teeth, filing dispatches for rent money alongside photographer Mel Bouzad (referred to as Oliver Bournemouth in the book), who acts as his Virgil, smoothing the writer's way through Hollywood's red velvet ropes. Weiss in short order is engulfed by Spears' world until it becomes his organizing principle. The writer becomes an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down Spears, one breaking news item at a time. "We wanted more and more, until she had no energy left to resist and no place left to hide," writes Weiss. Here are some of the most shocking stories from the book. Read more: Britney Spears' highs and lows — a timeline from 'The Mickey Mouse Club' to her tell-all memoir As a cub reporter in 2004, Weiss gets a hot tip about Spears' wedding to Kevin Federline at the Studio City home of a Spears confidant. Accompanied by Bouzad, Weiss scouts a neighboring house and pays off its owner in order to witness the nuptials next door. 'An hour before the ceremony, the bridegroom swaggers in in his white undershirt,' Weiss writes. 'The groomsmen look like lost members of 98 Degrees, wearing squiggly goatees and gummy-worm braids.' After the reception, where Federline 'removes [Britney's] garter belt with his teeth,' the wedding party packs into black SUVs wearing monogrammed Juicy Couture sweatsuits: 'Britney's announces Mrs. Federline. His just reads, Hers.' Weiss' Britney beat is temporarily placed on hold so he can dig up information on Ben Affleck's budding relationship with actor Jennifer Garner. In search of the duo, Weiss drives to Affleck's Brentwood house. He's in luck: Affleck materializes and hops into his car, prompting Weiss to tail him. 'My wobbling, elephantine car is no match for his agile V12 Mercedes, but I somehow keep up,' he writes. But Affleck is onto Weiss and swerves across lanes of traffic along the 101 en route to the San Fernando Valley. Weiss is nearly side-swiped by a Range Rover, 'and suddenly, it's over. [Affleck's] car heads into the parking lot of Bob's Big Boy.' When the visibly shaken driver emerges from the Mercedes, it turns out to be Affleck's brother, Casey. On assignment for People magazine in 2005, Weiss attempts to sneak onto Brad Pitt's beachfront compound in Santa Barbara, hoping to grab some tasty morsels about the megastar's new relationship with Jolie. He has been tasked, alongside a two-paparazzi team, with monitoring Jolie's son's fourth birthday party. 'I'm on the verge of breaking open one of the decade's biggest stories,' he writes. 'For the last six months, you haven't been able to buy a Snickers at the supermarket without missing the all-caps headlines' about the love triangle between Pitt, Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. No sooner does Weiss climb a bluff and whip out his binoculars than he is surrounded by 'four goons' with Glocks tucked into their shorts. He is harassed and finally released, but not before Pitt appears. 'He shakes his head slowly, confidently, letting me know that I've lost.' The next day, Weiss himself becomes a tabloid story: In the U.K., the Daily Mail headline reads, "People Paparazzo Popped Trying to Snake Pitt." Weiss has his first 15 seconds of infamy. Read more: Britney Spears' 13-year conservatorship is done. Here's how we got here In 2007, Weiss and Bouzad chase Spears — recently divorced from Federline — to a nondescript hair salon in Tarzana. 'Shielded by her security, Britney scurries in like a frightened deer,' Weiss writes. From an open window, Weiss hears Spears tell the hairdresser, 'I want you to buzz my hair off.' When she refuses, Spears grabs the trimmer and clicks it on: 'The extensions are hacked into lifeless scraps … the stray hairs curl on the floor like writhing snakes.' Hours later, Spears' hair is auctioned on eBay. 'The bidding reaches $1 million before the online auction house removes the listing. The authenticity of the hair cannot be verified.' In her own memoir, 'The Woman in Me,' Spears explained the reason for the bold act. 'Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,' Spears wrote. That same year, Spears attempts a musical comeback with a new album and series of one-off performances. Weiss nabs an exclusive interview with the pop star at a rented mansion in the Hollywood Hills. It doesn't go as planned. A disoriented and agitated Spears shows up late, rejects the pre-selected wardrobe choices for the photo shoot and locks herself in the bathroom. Finally, Weiss' moment arrives. Over lunch, 'Britney shrugs and summons me like she has something to confess.' Weiss is about to get his first face-to-face with Spears, but it's a false alarm: She thinks Weiss is a production assistant. 'She hands me her empty plate filled with bones and fat to throw away.' Get the latest book news, events and more in your inbox every Saturday. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
