Justin Timberlake News: Not Everyone Is Happy About Artist Headlining 2018 Super Bowl Halftime Show
It looks like not everyone is happy about the news of Justin Timberlake headlining the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
It has been confirmed that Justin Timberlake will officially be performing on the Super Bowl Halftime Show next year. The news has been confirmed by the singer himself as well as Pepsi. Prior to the big announcement, rumors began circulating about a month before that the former N'SYNC member was in talks of appearing on football's biggest night.
With this confirmation, it seems not everyone is pleased that the 36-year-old pop star will be returning to the Super Bowl stage, and this mostly stemmed from a controversy he was involved in back in 2004.
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It should be remembered that this isn't the first time that Timberlake will be performing at the Super Bowl. In fact, the "Mirrors" singer had already performed at the grand event twice. He first performed on the Super Bowl in 2001 as a member of N'SYNC and was joined by the likes of Aerosmith and Timberlake's former flame, Britney Spears.
In 2004, he returned to the Super Bowl stage alongside pop diva Janet Jackson in a controversy-filled performance. The controversy centered around a wardrobe malfunction on Jackson which led to her breast being exposed. This occured when Timberlake accidentally ripped a piece of Jackson's clothing which left her sensitive part exposed. The whole fiasco is now infamously known as "nipplegate" or "boobgate," and it is believed that both Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson had been banned by the NFL.
With Timberlake's participation in next year's Super Bowl Halftime Show, this left a lot of people fuming about how unfair it was for Janet Jackson to still be banned while everyone had forgotten that Timberlake too did play a great role in the "nipplegate" scandal.
However, a spokesperson for the NFL told E! News that no such ban exists, so this entails the possibility of Janet Jackson joining Justin Timberlake on the Super Bowl Halftime Show next year for a shot at redemption.
