Tuesday, October 22

Music mogul Timbaland apologises for Britney Spears ‘muzzle’ remark

Music producer and rapper Timbaland has apologised for suggesting Justin Timberlake ought to “put a muzzle” on Britney Spears.

Timbaland, 51, was being interviewed at an occasion in entrance of a stay viewers on the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC on 29 October when he made the feedback.

An viewers member requested concerning the renewed curiosity in Timberlake’s 2002 tune Cry Me A River – co-written and produced by Timbaland – which is believed to have been impressed by the previous NSYNC star’s break-up with Spears.

In her new autobiography, Spears wrote that she had an abortion throughout her relationship with Timberlake, that she and Timberlake had cheated on one another, and that the music video for Cry Me A River – which incorporates a Britney look-a-like going off with one other man – made her out to be a “harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy”.

Timbaland and Justin Timberlake pose backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Palms Hotel and Casino on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
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Timbaland and Justin Timberlake on the MTV Video Music Awards in 2007 Pic: AP

In a video of the incident that circulated on social media, Timbaland replied to the query: “She going loopy, proper?

“I wanted to call and say, ‘JT, man, you gotta put a muzzle on that girl’.”

The viewers appeared to snort at Timbaland however the clip sparked outrage on-line.

He ultimately apologised in a TikTookay stay video on Tuesday night time.

“I apologise to the Britney fans and her,” he stated, studying a remark asking about his angle in direction of girls. “Yes, ‘you know about respecting women?’ Hell yeah.”

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2002, file photo, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears wave to the crowd prior to the start of the 2002 NBA All-Star game in Philadelphia. Timberlake told E! News on Sept. 13, 2016, that he's open to collaborating with Spears. Spears mentioned Timberlake last month in answering a question about who she would like to work with one day. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File)
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Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in 2002 Pic: AP

Undated handout photo issued by Simon & Schuster of the front cover of Britney Spear's memoirs The Woman In Me. The book will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in October this year. The US pop star said she had had "a lot of therapy" to help get the book done and hoped fans would like it. Issue date: Wednesday July 12, 2023.
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The entrance cowl of Britney Spear’s memoirs The Woman In Me

Spears revealed in her autobiography Woman In Me that she had an abortion throughout her three-year relationship with Timberlake.

“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she wrote. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

Spears, 41, was topic to a controversial 13-year authorized conservatorship till 2021.

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Timbaland is without doubt one of the most high-profile producers in R&B and hip hop, and has labored with Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, Jay-Z and Lil Kim.

He additionally scored chart hits as an artist with songs together with The Way I Are, Give It To Me, Apologise and Morning After Dark.

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