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20 July 2006
You know you're so going to watch this.→[More:]Although I wish they would have picked people from more well-known boy bands. What are the Backstreet Boys doing lately? How about the former members of Menudo who aren't Ricky Martin?
OK, the idea of someone looking at 40 shaking his hips for a bunch of pre-teens (or trying to) just makes me feel kinda ill. That's just Not Right.
It was creepy enough when boy band members were my age. Now they're a decade older than me?
All claimed to be excited at the prospect of staging a comeback, although Wood was more realistic about their chances. "If it doesn't work out I can just go home," he said, having admitted that he had "no idea" who his new bandmates were.
I would've never guessed that we had something in common.