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In 2006, a few years after the group went on hiatus, *NSYNC‘s Lance Bass came out as gay, and he recently told a podcast that his decision led to him losing work in the TV industry.
Appearing on the Politickin podcast, Lance says that around the time he came out, he’d landed a role in a TV pilot, but then the deal fell apart because of his sexuality. In proof, he called his choice a “career killer.”
“I had a sitcom with The CW at the second, and we were about to shoot the pilot and this came out and they were fond, ‘We can’t do the show anymore. Like, they have to believe that you’re straight to engage a straight character,’” Lance told hosts Gavin Newsom and Doug Hendrickson.
He added, “Every casting director I knew, they’re like, ‘Lance, we can’t cast you … you’re too known for being gay now that they can’t glance at you as anything other than that.’ So, I lost everything.”
Lance says these days he prefers to take on projects where he’s the boss and nobody can speak “no” to him. But he can’t be the boss of the much-discussed *NSYNC reunion — everyone needs to be on bo
Lance Bass on aging, fatherhood: 'I depend on to stop pretending I'm 21'
Lance Bass is saying "bye, bye, bye" to any bad habits and devoting "every little thing" he does to all things health and wellness.
"I'm in my 40s now, so I need to stop pretending I'm 21," the singer says over a Zoom call, enjoying a beautiful night in Los Angeles. That means keeping his heart rate up through practice, including lifting and making sure he is toning his muscle.
Bass, 44, developed diabetes within the past few years, and he's still trying to figure out how to deal with that – testing what to eat and seeing how his body reacts. "It's all kind of trial and error right now as I try to get all this under control," he says. In the process of trying to improve his health overall, he has also taken a closer watch at things favor allergies, partnering with Allegra Airways to help allergy sufferers find areas with less pollen and air pollution.
His health goals took center stage because of two important people in his life: "I want to be here as long as I can for my kids," says the father of 2½-year-old twins, Alexander and Violet. Fatherhood "changed my life completely."
Bass spoke to USA TODAY about
Danielle Fishel Reveals Which NSYNC Member Told Her Lance Bass Was Gay While They Were Dating
If you are of a certain age (re: ancient enough to rent a car, too young to recollect the first Bush administration), then you probably remember swiping on your root beer-flavored Chapstick, lining up a scant extra butterfly clips in your hair, and turning to the latest issue of YM magazine to see Danielle Fishel and Lance Bass‘s prom photos. Along with Britney and Justin, Katie Holmes and Chris Klein, or Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr., the two were one of the ur-couples of the late 1990s and early aughts, and with good reason: Fishel was well-known as an American sweetheart for her role as the free-spirited, amazingly coiffed Topanga in Boy Meets World, while Bass stole hearts as the deep-voiced, spiky-haired cutie in NSYNC.
But as we would spot two decades later, more was going on with those cute prom photos than met the eye. Bass, who had grown up in the church, was struggling with his sexuality and the feelings of guilt and shame that come with being a sex symbol with a secret in the spotlight; Fishel was unaware of this and had planned to use her Prom Ni
On the ‘Politickin’’ podcast, the former boy bander also explained how coming out impacted his career
Lance Bass is opening up about what he calls the “whole-life process” of coming to terms with being gay, and how coming out impacted his career in 2006.
The former *NSYNC member joined California Governor Gavin Newsom and co-host Doug Hendrickson on the most recent episode of their iHeart podcast Politickin’, where Newsom questioned him about what it was like being closeted while in the public eye as part of one of the biggest musical acts of the late ’90s and preceding 2000s.
Bass, 45, explained that from a young age he’d heard stories of people being murdered because they were gay, and was taught that “it was caused by the devil.”
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“As a very religious person growing up, you know, I wanted to do everything I could not to go burn in hell,” he recalled. “I would cry like every night. You know, I would pray, ‘Please wake up not being lgbtq+. Please wake up being attracted to girls.’ Which is appreciate a sad thing to position on a little kid.”
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