If you'd have told us way back at the Season One finale of ABDC that its winning crew would one day soon be sharing a national stage with New Kids on the Block, we'd have laughed (really hard). In the beginning of '08, JabbaWockeeZ didn't boast anything close to a mainstream following ... and NKOTB were but a distant memory to grown women who once wore gummy bracelets and Aqua Net hairspray.
Well, times they have a changed, and not only are both groups now hailed as entertainment superstars, they've teamed up for a tour of the U.S., which kicked off this morning on the Today show! Check out pics of their performance together and watch the video below for MTV News' interview and rehearsal footage.
Recently, Aubrey O'Day posed next-to-nude in Complex magazine to declare her life-affirming love of porn and dispel rumors about getting frisky with her boss (i.e. the ever-demanding Diddy).
And now comes word that the 24 year-old Danity Kane diva has been sneaking around with the soon-to-be-divorced Donnie Wahlberg, (a.k.a. Marky Mark's 39 year-old brother, a.k.a. the guy from New Kids On the Block you would've LOVED to go out with...back in 1988. If Joey and Jordan had both said no).
According to the Boston Herald, the two first got together back in June, and were spotted "looking cozy" last week at the premiere of Wahlberg's new flick, Righteous Kill (pictured above). Which raises two serious questions: 1) Would Aubrey really date another boy-bander? and 2) Somebody put Donnie Wahlberg in another movie??
(Amazing side-note! By our count, Righteous Kill, marks the TWELFTH time Donnie's played a detective. Hope Aubrey likes a man in uniform!)
With MTV's Top Pop Group kicking off in less than two weeks, we figured it was time to round up a list of our all-time favorite pop princes and princesses. So here, in no particular order, is a list of the six musical acts who once had us shelling out our hard-earned allowances for a newfangled technological marvel commonly known as the "CD."
New Kids on the Block - These guys were the first -- and, some say, the best -- boy band racket in town. They had it all: the moves, the girls and, of course, the over-the-top merchandising (NKOTB lunch boxes, action figures and onesie pajamas? Seriously??) Yeah, we're gonna ignore their unsolicited comeback and focus on the happier times instead. As in, the days when Donnie Wahlberg was actually considered "the famous one."
Backstreet Boys - Remember when Paris Hilton had her heart broken by Nick Carter? Neither do we! But it, like, totally happened. That said, we'll best remember the Backstreet Boys for embodying all the classic b-band characteristics: the matching outfits, the cheesy choreography, and the requisite "edgy" one (who wore weird hats and had crazy highlights and appeared to the pseudo-rebellious mainstream teenybopper).
The Spice Girls - Before she was the lovely/robotic Victoria Beckham, you knew her as Posh Spice, the girl best known for never smiling, wearing ridiculous clothes and mugging for the camera. (Apparently, some things never change). And despite embracing "girl power," you never did figure out what the hell "Wannabe" was really about. Although you did (eventually) stop coveting Scary Spice's abs...around the same time you found out she got knocked up by professional babymaker Eddie Murphy.
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