Whenever I think about Justin Timberlake, I think about his infamous “This is going to ruin the tour” line during his DWI arrest. Can you believe that only went down last June? It feels like it was five years ago. Injuries aside, Justin’s tour is still happening, and he’ll be performing in Spain and Italy over the next few days. This past weekend, however, Justin did a show in the US. He performed at a music festival in Napa Valley. Since he was close(ish)-to-home (they’re based in Montana now), his wife, Jessica Biel, brought their two sons, Silas, 10, and Phineas, four, to watch their daddy perform. Jessica showed up in a 2003 Justified tour shirt with Justin’s face on it. Justin, in turn, surprised Jessica by wearing a t-shirt with a picture of her on it.
Justin Timberlake put down the “Suit & Tie” for something a little more Jessica Biel-centric at his latest gig — and she returned the favor! The 10-time Grammy winner, 44, surprised fans on Saturday, May 24, when he took the stage at the BottleRock Napa Valley festival in a checkered jacket and white button-up, before removing both to reveal a distressed white shirt featuring his wife’s face printed on the front.
Timberlake’s T-shirt featured an early ’00s photo of the actress wearing a white tank top and jeans. He paired the cut-up shirt with white pants, a chain necklace and some shades.
But he wasn’t the only one wearing his heart on his short sleeves!
Biel, 43, was apparently in the crowd cheering on her husband during his set, as seen in snaps he later shared on Instagram. She showed her support by wearing her own piece of throwback JT merch for the occasion.
In an image shared by Timberlake, the couple smiled together backstage — with the singer in his custom Biel T-shirt and his wife in a 2003 Justified World Tour T-shirt.
“We out here fan girling 😍😍,” Timberlake captioned the snap.
On her own Instagram Stories, Biel shared a cheeky response to Timberlake’s shirt: “He really outdid the doer,” she wrote.
Timberlake’s latest carousel post also included a video of the pair admiring their outfits, as he walked out of his dressing room to ask Biel, “Let me see your T-shirt, babe.”
“Oh, is that what you’re doing?” Timberlake asked, as the camera panned to Biel wearing her black Justified shirt with matching black jeans.
“That’s what I’m doing,” she responded, before Timberlake revealed his own shirt to her with a “bam.”
The pop star then confirmed that he and his team “made” the Biel shirt just for the show, as he asked one of their two children “who’s this” while showing off the top. Biel and Timberlake share sons Silas, 10, and Phineas, 4½.
Okay…thoughts on the t-shirts? When I first saw the pics, I thought it was cringe and that the video felt staged. But after thinking about it for a little while, I find it kind of adorable? I mean, it’s definitely worth all of the eye rolls, but the videos give it better context, especially when Justin asks the boys (who are off-screen), who’s on his shirt. I wish we’d heard their off-screen reactions too. It does seem like maybe Justin and Jessica are in a decent place, which is good for their kids. For their sake, I hope it stays that way because they do generally seem to just sort of tolerate one another. I showed the Instagram pics and videos to Mr. Rosie and his response was, ”Hey, even the most annoying people can do something cute once in a while.” Kinda like the whole broken clock is right twice a day theory. At the very least, they both know each other’s love language.
Ugh – this is an ick for me. And also kind of telling that they both chose T-shirts that feature themselves in the 2000’s (before their marriage). I’m not sure what their kids are supposed to say about any of it – are they supposed to be impressed that their mom was so hot?
To me, this is Jessica Biel managing her husband’s ego ahead of another big push towards “serious” acting. She’s going to be doing promo for a new TV series and god forbid doing interviews that are not all about him, and also probably he could use the free publicity for his tour ( “the world tour”).
Stepping back, it IS possible that I would find this a much cuter stunt if it were, say, Nicole Kidman surprising Keith Urban. So maybe the messengers are the problem.
Why is she still with this loser?
He’s sliding dangerously close to Bono territory these days.
Bono without the humanitarian side maybe.
‘We out here fan girling’
‘He really outdid the doer’
The captions remind me of him ‘back in the day’, slouching down the street, hanging on Britt, with his ‘blaccent’. Nothing fake about this cat.
I take it with a grain of salt. She has a show that’s about to come out and is currently in the promotion phase. I pretty much believe they live separate lives.
These two are the definition of irrelevant.
And the t-shirts with images from decades ago just solidifies that assessment.
My first thought when I read the headline was “tell me you are getting divorced without telling me you are getting divorced.” It has shades of vow renewal desperation.
I think it’s cute but then I tend to believe that most people have good intentions.
Every time I see a famous couple (or a couple on social media) who seems happy and then suddenly announces a divorce, I wonder if it was all fake. But I think it’s more that some times are good and some are bad, until the couple realizes that there are more bad times than good ones and THAT is the catalyst for a divorce
I have a friend who first told me she was thinking of leaving her husband in June 2020. 5 full years later, they’re still together. It’s partly because she’s not always unhappy. She genuinely loves and cares about her husband and he is her best friend. They have fun together and as a family, but he’s not giving what she needs as a romantic partner AND he has been chronically underemployed for 15 years (no shame there, except that being the primary breadwinner on a teacher salary is not what she thought she was signing up for and it causes her significant amount of stress). She gets ready to leave, and then he says he wants to make changes and does for a while,so she is happier, then he backslides and she goes through a new cycle of maybe he will really make those changes for good. I think about them every time I see a seemingly happy couple suddenly split up. She’s still there not because she’s faking it, but because there’s been enough good times in those 5 years to outweigh the bad times and she’s not ready to make the decision that she wants more.
Love language is not real! It’s a scam.
It was created by a pastor, it doesn’t have any backing in science, and the pastor created it mainly because he wanted his wife to have sex with him.
IDK, I think this is pretty cute. He is definitely a massive douche though.
I can’t with her-she gave/gives anti vax ppl legitimacy and helped make the monster it is today. They deserve each other
LOL, open “power couple” marriage. He is required to be discreet and she is bisexual.