Justin Timberlake

Timbaland apologises after saying Justin Timberlake should ‘muzzle’ Britney Spears over memoir

Music producer caused outrage with language used to describe Spears, who wrote at length about ex-boyfriend Timberlake in The Woman in Me

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

08, Nov, 2023 @10:23 AM

‘Fo’ shiz, homie!’: Michelle Williams’ impression of Justin Timberlake is Britney’s greatest revenge

For the audiobook of Spears’s The Woman in Me, Williams delivers Timberlake’s cringeworthy lines even more scathingly and excruciatingly than they are written

Stuart Heritage

27, Oct, 2023 @11:38 AM

‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?

To produce a bestseller, stars must hold back on confessional social media posts and save explosive details for the page

Edward Helmore in New York

22, Oct, 2023 @11:00 AM

Britney Spears criticises ‘dumb and silly’ press coverage of her memoir

Singer says on social media that she didn’t mean ‘to offend anyone’ with her new tell-all book The Woman in Me

Benjamin Lee

20, Oct, 2023 @6:41 PM

Trolls Band Together review – a kooky, candyfloss-coloured boyband reunion

Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return to voice Poppy and Branch in the third, possibly loopiest, instalment of the monster franchise

Cath Clarke

18, Oct, 2023 @12:00 PM

Reptile review – Benicio Del Toro looms large in gruesomely ambitious noir

Del Toro co-scripts and stars as a tough detective with a somewhat grimy past charged with investigating a horrific killing

Peter Bradshaw

27, Sep, 2023 @8:00 AM

Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical review – goofy comedy gets ’NSync

This fantastically silly show by writer-actors Valen Shore and Alison Zatta reflects on the adrenalised rise to fame for young pop stars

Arifa Akbar

08, Aug, 2023 @2:30 PM

Calvin Harris: Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2 review – wan background grooves for an A-list pool party

Harris enlists Dua Lipa, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Halsey and others for a second round of slinky disco-pop, but his luxurious production doesn’t disguise the dullness of the songs

Alim Kheraj

04, Aug, 2022 @11:01 PM

‘My karaoke song? Pure & Simple by Hear’Say, because I wrote it!’: Betty Boo’s honest playlist

The pop star practised rapping to Run-DMC and gets a thrill when she hears Teenage Kicks – but which Depeche Mode song makes her shudder?

Rich Pelley

01, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM

Justin Timberlake sells song catalogue in deal ‘worth just over $100m’

Singer follows other artists, selling to Blackstone-backed fund Hipgnosis Songs Capital

Julia Kollewe

26, May, 2022 @2:29 PM

Pharrell Williams’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

It’s 20 years since his band NERD released their debut album – but the rapper-producer-singer-songwriter has been responsible for an avalanche of hits. As he and co-pilot Chad Hugo get inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, we count down Williams’s 30 greatest bangers

Alexis Petridis

10, Mar, 2022 @2:00 PM