And Finally

Ryan Gosling could have been a Backstreet Boy, says AJ Maclean

By | Published on Tuesday 15 January 2013

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He might now be best known for stamping a guy’s head into the floor in a lift (you’ve all seen ‘Drive’ by now, right?), but Ryan Gosling started his entertainment career on all-singing all-dancing Disney TV show ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’. While on it, he lived in the same Orlando, Florida apartment building as AJ Maclean of The Backstreet Boys.

Gosling reminisced to Celebuzz: “When I was doing ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’, we were living in the same place as that guy AJ from The Backstreet Boys. And so he was always talking about The Backstreet Boys … But they were just forming that band, so he was saying how big they were going to be – and he had a poster of them in his house. We were like, ‘Just shoot the ball, dude. It’s never going to happen. Didn’t they already do that with New Kids? You’re a little late’. Cut to… I was wrong”.

Asked if he regretted not going down the popstar route himself, like fellow ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ alumni Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, he replied: “You can’t live in the past. You’ve got to live in the now. That ship has sailed”.

Or has it…? Confronted about all this by TMZ, Maclean said: “If we ever want a sixth Backstreet Boys member, I’m gonna call you. He can sing. You can sing, dude. Ryan can sing. He can sing his ass off. He’s not only a great actor and a handsome man”.



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