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Justin Timberlake fed up with gossip magazines

(AP)
Updated: 2007-04-03 08:22





Justin Timberlake accepts the favorite male singer award at the 20th
Annual Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles, on Saturday, March 31, 2007.
(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

NEW YORK - Justin Timberlake blames celebrity magazines for turning his
personal life into juicy gossip fodder. "I despise what they do," the
26-year-old singer tells Details magazine in an interview in its April
issue. "They create soap operas out of people's lives. ... It's a spin
game, and I choose not to take part in it."

That includes not dishing any dirt about former girlfriends Britney
Spears and Cameron Diaz.

"I would never say anything bad about anyone. I love a lot of those
people," says Timberlake, whose latest album is "FutureSex/LoveSounds."

Diaz and Timberlake, who had dated since 2003, confirmed their split in
January. Timberlake's relationship with Spears ended in 2002. They were a
high-profile couple for three years.

Timberlake, a former member of boy band 'N Sync, released his debut solo
album, "Justified," in 2002. The album won a Grammy Award.

"I tried so hard to be an R&B artist and it was the pop album of the
year. ... That's the last thing I wanted," Timberlake says. "But I was
like, `So everyone considers me a pop artist? ... I'm going to do
whatever I want to do.'"

Timberlake took home a trophy as favorite male singer Saturday night in
the raucous, slime-drenched 20th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
on Viacom International Inc.'s Nickelodeon channel.

The show began with Timberlake descending from the ceiling on a large
orange Nickelodeon blimp and breaking into a Broadway show tune in which
he taunted the audience, saying he was too famous to be slimed.

"You'll never get a drop of slime on old J.T.," he sang.

By the end of the song, of course, he had been drenched in the green goo.












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