Harry Jowsey channeled Justin Timberlake — frosted suggestions and all — throughout Dancing With the Stars’ Music Video Night time.
Jowsey, 26, and his associate, Rylee Arnold, carried out a jazz routine to ’NSync’s 2000 hit “It’s Gonna Be Me” throughout the Tuesday, November 7, episode.
Jowsey recreated Timberlake’s doll-like look from the music’s music video, through which the boy band members pretended to be motion figures of themselves. He sported a curly blonde wig, an acid-wash denim jacket with matching denims and airbrushed make-up that made him appear like a doll.
“This was a lot enjoyable ❤️❤️❤️,” Jowsey commented through Instagram images of the routine shared through Dancing With the Stars’ official account.
Though Jowsey was styled like Timberlake, 42, it was one other member of ’NSync who gave him a pep speak earlier than the present: Lance Bass.
“It is advisable get out of your head and simply carry out,” Bass, 44, instructed Jowsey throughout rehearsal. The go to boosted Jowsey’s confidence. “If I might simply take Lance’s recommendation, … I do know the most effective dance of the night time: it’s gonna be me,” the Too Scorching to Deal with alum instructed cameras.
Regardless of getting a go to from Bass himself, Jowsey didn’t wow the judges and earned the bottom rating of the night time: a 24. The gang booed Carrie Ann Inaba as she instructed Jowsey that his backup dancers had upstaged him. “As soon as the boys have been now not in entrance of you, it was not nearly as good,” Inaba, 55, mentioned.
Jowsey redeemed himself throughout the group dance-off later within the night time. He saved his blonde wig on whereas performing “Gangnam Type” by PSY alongside Arnold, 18, Lele Pons, Brandon Armstrong, Xochitl Gomez, Val Chmerkovskiy, Charity Lawson and Artem Chigvintsev.
Choose Derek Hough was floored by Jowsey’s stage presence throughout the group quantity and obtained as much as give him a hug. Noting that he’d “discovered” Jowsey’s energy, Derek, 38 mentioned, “You’re not a soloist, you’re a workforce participant.” Jowsey’s workforce obtained an ideal rating of 40 from the judges whereas the opposing workforce obtained a 37.
Regardless of being on the backside of the leaderboard, Jowsey and Arnold have been saved by viewers’ votes whereas Pons, 27, and Armstrong, 29, have been eradicated.
Arnold’s nod to the “SexyBack” singer comes as different blasts from Timberlake’s previous have not too long ago made headlines. Britney Spears’ new memoir, The Lady in Me, which hit cabinets final month, featured a number of bombshells about her relationship with Timberlake, whom she dated from 1999 to 2002.
Within the tell-all, Spears, 41, accused Timberlake of dishonest on her “a few instances,” claimed he ended their three-year relationship through textual content message and alleged that Timberlake tried to consolation her after she had an abortion by enjoying guitar for her.
Timberlake, who has not publicly addressed his ex’s memoir, turned off his Instagram feedback final month. Shortly thereafter, he was seen vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico together with his household, together with spouse Jessica Biel. A supply solely instructed Us Weekly on the time that the journey “had nothing to do with Britney’s memoir” and had been deliberate months prior.
“[Justin] is supportive of Britney’s resolution to place her fact on the market,” the insider added.
Bass, in the meantime, has stood by his bandmate’s facet amid the drama. “I imply, everybody has their very own opinion. I simply really feel just like the world is so filled with hate proper now that we have to observe a bit forgiveness,” he instructed TMZ in October. “Britney did, so let’s take a word from her.”
Regardless of the candid confessions about her dynamic with Timberlake in The Lady in Me, Spears instructed followers through Instagram final month that “my e book’s function was to not offend anybody by any means.” She added that the occasions recounted within the memoir are “up to now” and mentioned writing it “has given me closure on all issues for a greater future.”
Dancing With the Stars airs Tuesdays on ABC and Disney+ at 8 p.m. ET.