My secret tryst with a Spice Girl, by Timberlake (anything to say, Emma?)
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Now Justin Timberlake has finally admitted to another high-profile romance – a tryst with an unnamed Spice Girl.
The singer and actor made the revelation in an interview on US television.
It is believed the fling was with ‘Baby Spice’ Emma Bunton as there have been rumours of a romance between the two for nearly 20 years.
Timberlake, 37, has always remained tight-lipped about Miss Bunton, but during the Ellen DeGeneres show on Tuesday he revealed he had ‘hooked up’ with one of the Spice Girls.
He and his former NSync bandmates Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and JC Chasez took part in a game of ‘Never Have I Ever’. In it, they had to give a response to the statement ‘Never have I ever hooked up with a Spice Girl’. Timberlake hesitantly turned his paddle to read ‘I have’. The tryst is understood to have happened just before the singer, who had previously dated Britney Spears, began a three-year relationship with film star Cameron Diaz.
Miss Bunton was asked by chat show host Jonathan Ross in 2004 whether she had dated Timberlake. Ross asked: ‘You had a one nighter with him, is that right?’ She admitted they had ‘hung out and partied a bit’, but refused to give further details. A year earlier, asked on This Morning whether she was secretly dating Timberlake, she giggled and replied: ‘I can’t say.’
Timberlake, who has also dated actress Scarlett Johansson and singers Alicia Keys and Rihanna, is now married to actress Jessica Biel, 36. They have a son Silas, three.
Miss Bunton, 42, has been in an on-off relationship with British singer Jade Jones since 1998. They were engaged in 2011 and have two sons together, Beau, ten, and Tate, six.