Two days ago, LaineyGossip posted an awful blind item. As in, the subject matter was awful, not the blind itself. The blind was all about the “wedding gift” some friends made for a recently married couple. The “gift” was a “funny” video in which homeless people talked on camera about how they were super-sad to miss the celebrity couple’s big, fancy wedding. Because the “joke” is that homeless people are SO funny, what with their homelessness and not knowing where their next meal will come from, and the joke is that of course the celebrity couple would invite some homeless people to their wedding. If you couldn’t tell, I have no idea what the “joke” was supposed to be. Anyway, Lainey only said that it was NOT Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, and I think most people, even the blind-item-challenged, were like “Huh, I bet it’s Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel”. Yeah.
Gawker reported yesterday that Justin’s friend Justin Huchel, a real estate agent (“joke?”), was the one to make the video or organize the video somehow:
After the guests at Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s wedding were whisked to southern Italy via private jet last week, they were greeted by a video produced by Timberlake’s longtime pal, L.A. real estate agent Justin Huchel. The video had a gag: Huchel hit the streets of Los Angeles and asked a bunch of homeless people, street musicians, and transexuals to wish the multimillionaire newlyweds well. Funny, funny stuff.
The 8:30 video featured street interviews with ten people, many of them obviously homeless, premised on the idea that they were friends of Timberlake and Biel’s who, for whatever reason, couldn’t quite swing the trip to the Borgo Egnazia resort in Puglia for the nuptials, which were reported to cost $6.5 million. “Greetings from Your Hollywood Friends Who Just Couldn’t Make It,” reads the opening title card, “Featuring Sid, Chuck, Robert, and More!” Sid, Chuck, Robert, and others appear to be penniless and living on the street. Some of them are obviously intoxicated, mentally ill, or both, and at least one of them is entirely incapable of speaking.
“Justin and Jessica, I haven’t seen you for a long time,” one toothless man tells the camera. “I hope the wedding goes fine for you. My gift is in the mail.”
A male off-camera voice, apparently Huchel’s, asks the man when he last saw Timberlake and Biel, adding, “Did you and Jessica mess around?”
At one point, after commentary from an apparently transexual man, Timberlake’s “SexyBack” is played in the background.
Another glassy-eyed apparently homeless man woozily tells the camera, in a lengthy and rambling monologue, “Jeez I miss you so much. I wish I could be there.” (“There” being the $1,000-plus a night Italian resort hanging out with guests like Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg. “Here” being behind what looks like a McDonald’s.) Others mumble unintelligibly in response to questions about when they last hung out with Timberlake and Biel. When one shirtless man says he saw them at the L.A. Coliseum, the male voice asks, “were you performing with them?”
Gawker contacted Huchel, and his attorney sent Gawker a letter threatening to sue, which you can read in its entirety over at Gawker. The lawyer says, “Mr. Huchel made [the] video to be used and exhibited privately at Justin Timberlake’s wedding as a private joke without Mr. Timberlake’s knowledge.” I could parse that statement all day long. What is the “private joke”? Does Justin just spend his days, joking about homeless people? WTF? To me, this is the celebrity-gossip equivalent of Mitt Romney’s 47% video. What happens in private never stays private.
People Mag cover courtesy of People.com. Additional photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I have hated Justin since the time he was with Brittney and I always suspected he played a good heaping role in her massive breakdown— cos he’s an a$s. And this proves it some more– a total jerk.
JT didn’t make the video, his friends did. Although, I suppose the people he chooses to befriend does say a lot about him.
Well if he can find it funny, or his friends do, it cant be a good sign and I still dont like him anyway LOL
A friend, especially one who is in BFF territory with you, doesn’t make you a ‘joke’ video that doesn’t reflect your humour. Why go to all that trouble otherwise??!!!!!
They know what you find funny and any attempts to amuse you will reflect that!!!
As Kaiser pointed out, this douche made the video as a “private joke.” That implies that they have both laughed about something to do with homeless people before (how is that ever funny?). And the video is sickening. I couldn’t watch it. It’s beyond douchey…it’s sociopathic.
Agree, Lak.
Remember, this is the same guy who claimed he knew nothing about Nipplegate.
I was waiting for CB to cover this.
Before anyone says Timberacts had nothing to do with the making of this video (which he probably didn’t)…let me say this: the man who did it is one of his closest friends, he probably knows what Timberacts usually laughs at. He thought this would please/amuse his douchebag friend.
Also, the only acceptable reaction (from Timberacts and the woman who can’t get nice roles because she’s just too beautiful) would be standing up, saying that wasn’t funny and asking them to stop the video RIGHT THERE. If they, at their 6 million dollar wedding, just sat there and laughed…
Not once in my life I laughed at a homeless person. I could go on and on about this, but the post would be too long, I’m busy right now and so absolutely disgusted by this I can’t see straight.
By the way, Huchel deleted his Twitter account.
completely agree. as Eve & Christine said, you want to know the make of a man, look at the company he keeps.
Exactly! I read about it yesterday but I was hoping it was just a vicious, untrue blind item (from Lainey). It turned out to be true.
I’m going to leave this thread. You know, before someone shows up here to defend any of the involved in this (and my head explodes as a consequence).
This.
I’m glad someone leaked it and that it’s out there. People need to be accountable for their ugliness. What a horrible group of people. At a wedding, no less.
My mother always told me growing up, “You will be judged by the people you choose as friends. Choose wisely.” If this is the type of friend JT hangs with and this friend thinks JT would be amused by this video, it says a lot about him and it’s not good.
That’s horrible. And you’re right, Eve. You’re only as good as the company you keep. What complete assholes.
THIS! Eve, you are right, these are not strangers, this is a bestie Married to your assistant/cousin, im fairly sure he’d know what gives you funnies and what you’d be cool with showing at your wedding/in that crowd and such
You’re so right! I’ve organized some wedding jokes, and you never do something the couple wouldn’t like.
Let’s all hear it for Eve and her well-put succinct response.
Only a true a$shole would associate with another a$shole who would make sure a video.
NONE of my friends who know me would even consider making this sort of joke with me.
So well said Eve. I never liked Timberswamp and I couldn’t pinpoint why, I just always read or saw pictures and thought “tool”. Apparently my gut impression was not off.
@Eve You are so right. Birds of a feather flock together.
Eve, you always get it right. I took “private joke” to mean that Justin would find this hilariously amusing & that is the only part they wanted to keep “private.”
@Eve – You said it all. And please no one defend this dirtbag by saying the people were probably paid. That is not relevant to the issue.
You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas~ you CAN tell a lot about the character of a person by the company that they keep.
Perfectly said Eve.
Probably the best response to this I’ve seen yet. You nailed it.
It doesn’t matter if Timberlake didn’t make the video. If he didn’t get right up and say “No this is wrong” and turn it off then he becomes complicit and his true feelings are revealed. Huchel obviously knows the kind of “humor” Justin likes considering the length of time they’ve been friends.
The fact that this has been out there for a couple of days and neither Justin nor Jessica’s PR team has made any type of statement about this is equally damning. They’re probably hoping it goes away on its own.
Exactly! It’s been days and nothing from either PR teams. Speaks volumes.
This is so gross. Do you think this has something to do with Ryan Gosling? Remember the street cred thing? I could see JT being jealous of RG and not letting it go. Idk I’m trying to make some sense of this gross ass thing.
PLEASE BOYCOTT ANYTHING THESE TWO IDIOTS DO FROM NOW ON….lets give them a dose of karma from the good people on this planet. They are vile, disgusting snobs who need to be taught a lesson. One of the film makers was Jessica’s cousin and she knew full well what was about to be shown. ALSO THEY LAUGHED FOR THE FULL 8 MINUTES, NOT ASKING FOR THIS TO BE STOPPED AT ANYTIME!!!
Um does anyone else notice he JT is totally doing a Tom cruise couch jumping pose! All that’s missing is the couch & Oprah.
Pathetic.
Looks like these two kids are getting a great start to a long and happy life together!
This is sick. There’s absolutely no way to spin this. What is more angering is that the people involved (Justin and Co.) are probably whining among themselves about how this video was leaked and privacy blah blah blah and not thinking of how WRONG this is. Sick, twisted human beings, to go out of their way to use homeless people as their entertainment to laugh at.
Not probably, Mia. That’s EXACTLY what they’re doing.
Yeah, they probably think that the people complaining are being PC and aren’t cool/edgy enough to get the joke. I wouldn’t be shocked if they don’t try to spin this into being some kind of commentary on society message that we simpletons just didn’t get or some bs like that.
The only acceptable reaction from these losers at this point is to take all the money they made pimping those wedding photos, match that money (at minimum) and donate it to homeless charities. It won’t make things right but at least it will acknowledge the issue and provide some needed funds. And this “real estate agent” if he has any balls should pitch in too.
@Mia 4S: That would be a great idea, but Justin would have to be truly humble in order to do something like that. Considering his past interviews plus the fact that his friend is trying to make it seem as if Justin shouldn’t take part of the blame (which I’m sure Justin and his people are encouraging) I don’t think anything like that is going to happen.
I think if they were truly horrified they would have issued that statement and made that donation immediately. What they are doing, so it appears, is gauging public reaction and probable fallout before parting with a dime of the money Justin so ardently negotiated for (which was well below that which he attempted to procure).
It’s also evident by the suspiciously-placed Britney photo that the folks at People magazine feel naught but disdain for Justin and his control-freak ways, especially in his choosing of this particular image for the cover.
Coming as it does on the heels of his being dropped by that charity for “disappearing when the cameras stopped” and not getting more involved despite their pleas, it will be interesting to see the impact on his career. I think Biel may get a pass (as per her underwhelming career options) as she is clearly the submissive here, as Justin’s chosen photo makes exceedingly clear.
Justin is so undeserving of what he has and where he is in life. To think about it makes me so angry.
I always thought Jessica was harmless. A bad actress and fashion girl, but always doing some kind of in the trenches charity work. I hope she doesn’t share his sense of humor.
Thank you Mia! There is just never an excuse for behavior so foul. I have a pretty broad sense of humor and this is just so far from funny on any level. If it had been my wedding day, I would have stopped the tape and cried.
The “spin” I’m hearing is that Huchel did this as a commentary on society between the have-and-have-nots and was “teasing” Justin for spending so much on his wedding when there are homeless people out there.
Yeah, I’m not buying it either, but that is some of the crap I’m seeing on other message boards from people defending this.
I keep deleting my comment to your spin theory, I mean the theory you are hearing out there because I am so enraged. There is no way to spin this. As others have said I always knew he was a tool even before I ever read any gossip on him. I bet the folks over at E will be salivating to appease him. My girl Guiliana will offer to shine his shoes or something. I agree I think People magazine wanted to piss on him too and that is so awesome that they put Britney’s photo up there and this was before they evne knew about the video. Get him with a one two punch. Punk.
O.M.G. I cannot believe they are trying to spin it that way. Sick.
Re: Mia
One of Justin’s friends, Rob Knox, is already doing so. Check his twitter.
You are the company you keep.
You just NAILED it! Very true.
You are the company you keep, your friends know what you find funny. No one I know would think this is funny or appropriate for a wedding. Maybe, maybe at a drunk fraternity party full of dumb rich kids who don’t know better.
this couldn’t be more disgusting
These are despicable people. And that’s all I’ve got.
Money can’t buy class.
WORD.
Remember back in 2007 – when future/sex came out? …everyone liked JT because no one knew he was such A DOUCHE…
He must miss those days….
I knew he was…. lol My scum-sniffer was on red alert for a while already
Just look at the video he made with that Brittney lookalike– what a public humiliation and an atrocious thing to do to a woman. Slime, slime… all the way.
Not that I’m for Brit or anythign but it just so happens, his colors were showing to me when ‘they’ were still in the news.
Ha.
Good Eye!!
Well, I didn’t like Justin than. He already threw all the main people who provided him the tools for success under the bus by than (Britney, Janet and NSYNC).
I would want an annulment the next day. But I would have never wanted a guy like Justin in the first place.
This is despicable on every level. Really? Using homeless people as your f*cking entertainment? I’ve always thought there was something douchebaggy about JT. It’s confirmed now. I hope their marriage is miserable.
The statement was clearly made to make things easier on Justin but he still looks like a tool. When your best friend makes a video like this, it’s clear that he thinks you would find it funny.
Although late on commenting but that wedding photo is horrible. It’s like two separate photos put together. Not to mention it looks like Justin has crazy eyes.
Vile, despicable, contemptible, beyond low. And everything that Eve said above.
You all expressed how I feel too.
There are no words to how disgusting this is.
Hope they are still laughing, now all I will remember of their “big day” is that they are complete a-holes.
I have no problems seeing Justin & co laughing raucously @ this video. This is in tune with what I expect from him. Stories of his douchebaggery abound from him refusing to order drinks & food directly from waiters & having a friend act as an intermediary so as to avoid talking to people who (gasp!)have to work for a living. I hate this dude
*BOOM*
Eh, the comment is gone now…
Dear Justin, Jessica and friends,
It would be wise to remember that all the people featured in this video have more class, dignity and integrity that any one of you will ever have in your lives.
It would also be wise to remember that, there, but for the grace of God go we.
Signed,
Someone who wants to punch your lights out right now (I suspect I am but one of many)
Still can’t get over how PINK this is in other angles.
http://styleguidecapetown.blogspot.com/2012/10/jessica-biels-wedding-dress-by.html
Money can’t buy you class. Obviously, it can’t buy you humanity, either.
JT, you disgust me.
Hey I will say it. Over reaction. You are not the company you keep and everyone who cares so much about the homeless when did you last donate money or volunteer to help them…
I donated money yesterday and I, my family, and the company I work for donate time and money regularly.
Now let me say this, the only part of this that might be an overreaction is expecting anything more from this entitled little snot.
how are you not the company you keep?
Because not donating or volunteering equals making fun of them, right?
Regular SR volunteer here from LA. It’s not an overreaction, it’s fvcking gross. And if you knew how exploited and abused homeless people are by folks like you, you would understand why it’s not funny. Maybe I’m also thinking about the number of times homeless people have been assaulted and killed for entertainment too. This type of wedding entertainment is how people learn to stop seeing the homeless and mentally ill as PEOPLE. This is how acceptable violence starts…as a joke
@Izzy4ya: Well said.
Ali is party correct and mostly wrong.
I have a friend that loves the gritty indie film Hobo With A Shotgun. It’s simply people filming homeless people to fight to their deaths for money and worse too.
Point is he likes it, everyone else hates it, but we’re still friends. All of our friends do things we would hate.
To show this at a wedding though? Where people probably laughed. The balls on these people! Poor taste and poor character.
I competely agree! I bet this person is no longer friends with Justin because I think he would definitely disassociate himself from this person.
Yesterday. And your point?
There’s a difference between not donating, and exploiting them as a joke. I have donated a bit of money over the years. Nothing extravagant because I don’t have it. But I have NEVER made a joke at a homeless person’s expense. And if you can’t tell that there is a difference between two things, I feel sorry for you.
I was wondering when the ‘your friends aren’t a reflection of you’ brigade would show up.
I’m sorry, but yes, your friends are a reflection of you. Acquaintances… not so much. But then again, acquaintances don’t have the access to screen a special video message to the bride and groom.
Video-douche Justin is friends with Make Everything about Me except when things get too hot-douche Justin Timberlake.
Donating money to the homeless or not is irrelevant to this story. It’s about dignity and respect for fellow human beings. If this video hadn’t been made, no one would be on here, out of the blue, saying JT should be donating to the homeless. And for the record, I’m sure many commenters support the homeless on here. I wouldn’t even be surprised if Justin has too. But all the money in the world doesn’t equate to being humane and kind.
“It’s about dignity and respect for fellow human beings.”
THIS!
@ Ali
that comment of your’s was very stupid. How does not contributing money to the homeless equate to making fun of them?
Ali is probably Lyn Harless (or should I say Heartless) and her spin team desperately trying to save her stupid douche of a son’s reputation. She has protected him all her life telling him how wonderful he is and that he is king and so on.
Actually Ali, showing respect for fellow humans and not degrading them by making fun of them is in no way equivalent to donating money/time to homeless charities. You are missing the entire point. Just because some one is less fortunate than you does not give you or anyone else the right to look down on them and use them as spectacles in your friends multimillion dollar wedding. Justin and said friend are equally gross.
Also, I consider my friends a reflection of me. We have similar taste in music, movies, and while we don’t always share the same views on every political and social issue they are basically good people as I would not hang out with anyone who I found to be morally reprehensible.
And if anyone remembers how he behaved on his ‘punk’d’ episode, like a giant man-child douche who starting crying and calling his mom you can see that he has pretty much always been a tool!
@Hoya_Chick: thank you for making my morning by reminding us all of how lame JT really is. Nothing more telling than a boy crying and calling his mama when things go bad. This seems to be a strong indication of his inability to be able to deal and take care of things like an adult. Jessica is going to be changing two sets of diapers if she ever procreates with him.
Also, How typical is this that they are getting all of this fallout after their wedding. What a prize jBiel, what a PRIZE!!
Just watched the Punk’d video. Had never seen it. What a dumb crying little baby. He was dumb enough to beleive the Feds were taking his dogs too. Him claiming his ugly pickup truck was $50,000. How lame. His last words were get off my property since the people who work for Punk’d aren’t worthy of him. What a loser. I am also watching E! News right now and those losers are too scared to mention the video. I can’t believe they are protecting this punk.
I think what this guy did was insensitive and asshole-ish. But, I certainly don’t control my friends’ actions. I can react to them, but don’t control them. What is most telling is how JT reacted to it. Do we know how he reacted?
The thing is though… if you’re hanging around with douchebags, and think they’re good people it IS kind of telling. I’m not saying this is your specific situation, I’m making a general statement. If my friends acted the way Justin’s did I’d certainly be in the market for new friends.
You don’t hang out with people because you can control them. You WILLINGLY hang out with people because on a basic level, you share views. I am not talking about once a week/month people you share an event with. We are talkig a person(s) you consider your best friends. Where you can predict their reactions to stuff because you would react the same way. Share the same sense of humour etc. This is why that saying ‘show me your friends and I will know who you are’ or ‘birds of a feather flock together’ come from. If your best friends make a douchy video FOR YOUR WEDDING, it’s because they know you will find it funny.
And as far as we know, no one at that wedding objected to the video (all 8minutes of it) until it became public. So they are all whining because they were caught NOT because they are sorry. And hiding behind legal moves.
If your friends are douchy, then so are you.
@LAK. EXACTLY.
@Ali – You are the company you keep.
Get off Timberlake’s jock for crying out loud. But then again, he needs all the “fans” he can get.
How do you know the people who are disgusted by this haven’t given money to the homeless? I am blessed to be financially stable and I have given money to several charitable organizations that help the homeless.
You’re probably a fan of “Bum Fights” too, right?
Nice try, but NO. You are the company you keep, the people you hang around with reflects on you. END OF STORY. As for donating to the homeless, that is in no way equivalent to these rich ass douchebags making fun of them at their $6.5 million wedding. Give me a break. There is absolutely NO excuse for this, it is degrading, humiliating, despicable, callous, cruel, I could go on and on. Shows JT’s true colors, which I saw as far back as his Cry Me A River music video. He’s a douche and his friends are too.
I donate regularly, thank you very much, and frankly your comment misses the point. Even if you don’t or can’t donate to help homeless folks, you don’t denigrate them. If JT was a good and honest person, we’d be hearing that the friend did this and he stood up and said to stop the video, this is just not funny.
Undoubtedly, we’ll hear that next from the poor victim himself. He’ll go on Ellen and say it was all a misunderstanding and he’s made a large donation and some people will be fooled.
You choose the company you keep, and if you choose this kind of company, it says volumes about you.
How much any of the people who think the video is wrong donates to the homeless is so besides the point. Wrong is wrong.
I don’t think I’m any better than the homeless but I do think i am better than people who get make fun of others misfortunes.
He is so disgusting! I wonder if he was always like this or has fame changed him. Also I read reports he snubbed lance bass and Joey fatone from his wedding because they did dwts and he considered it low class. Hey Justin you wouldn’t be anywhere without Nsync how about a little humility.
LOL…talk about a PR NIGHTMARE for Justin & Jessica!
I want to feel sorry for Jessica, but I just can’t. She obviously knew the type of person JT is, & married him anyway. And now that she’s married him (probably her “dream come true”), look @ the fallout they’re dealing with. This kind of reminds me of that saying to “don’t pray for what you want…you might get it in spades.” WOW…how apropo!
And JT? All I can really do is laugh because now the whole world knows what I’ve suspected about bratty, snot-nosed JT….he is an “elitist” who thinks he’s so much better than the minions.
JT would have really been the perfect groom for GOOPY, not Jessica.
I’m kind of glad this came out, because we all know what type of people Justin & Jessica are because, as it’s been so aptly described by @Christine (blogger comment #5), you ARE the company you KEEP. A truer statement I’ve never heard.
It is a PR nightmare that none of us could have expected. Only I wish it didn’t involve those less fortunate than us. I know we all hoped for some debacle, and probably could have all been satisfied with just the cover photo alone (Brit Brit, crazy Justin”tommy cruise”jump, Jessica-alone in the corner where evidently JT puts his “baby”) but to have this to stew over. It actually isn’t surprising at all, but in a gossip sense, it’s kind of gold. I kind of want a bigger deal To be made of it, but Justin seems too well received to suffer fallout from it.
haha, yes. All people will remember about their lavish wedding is that it was punctuated with this terribly cruel act, and that the resulting photos became a meme. Way to go, Justin!
^^^^THIS!! x 1000^^^^^
Oh come on Goopy wouldn’t touch boy band singer Justin with a tent pole. She gotten rid of Brad Pitt in time because she doesn’t like dumb guys. It’s actually strange why JB thinks she has to stoop so low AND marry a douche like Justin. Nobody will care for this guy in 5 years, hell I don’t now why he is still around these days given the fact that he has very little talent, bad looks and a stinky attitude.
There’s no way this was humorous what absolute creeps.
What horrible, horrible people. There are just no words. I wsn’t a big fan before, but I will make a point of NEVER watching anything with which they are associated again. Don’t put another dime in these cold hearted pr*cks’ pockets!!
A wedding is an event when many couples actually choose to donate to charity, to give back to others in honor of the love and happiness they have found. This, on the other hand, is completely twisted.
How sad and miserable they must be, spending millions on a wedding and laughing at unfortunates from their home town. They are as unhappy deep down inside as any homeless person, and their marriage will not last.
I really don’t get it. It’s not only that they spent millions for their wedding, which I find disgusting, they are also making fun of homeless people. I don’t know how they can look in the mirror each day.
In addition to everything else, I feel bad for the decent human beings who attended this wedding, watched the video as it was shown all the way through, and were appalled by this spectacle. Even at an event like this, probably 25% of the people there were disgusted and offended by this video.
Can you imagine how the non-showbiz family members felt about this while they were watching it? Not everyone at that wedding was an awful person…
That is truly horrible.
I don’t even know what else to say about it.
They need to give that $300,000 they made to the homeless people in that stupid video.
Yes. And match that amount with their own money as well.
I truely believe justin would not be ok with this horrid video.He doesn’t come off as a person who would fine it funny.
I disagree strongly. I can totally see him laughing about this in his fake ass way thinking its an SNL skit ‘d***k in the box’ type joke. He’s arrogant and lame and he surrounds himself with other d-bags.
+100
And I’m sure he’ll throw this guy under the bus just like he did Janet Jackson, Britney and C Diaz. Justin cares about no one except Justin. It’s sad he’s such a douche because he is musically talented.
I remember when he/Nsync did a commercial for some fast food restaurant and he said their stock went up because of it. I thought, he’s so full of himself. He and Jessica ” I don’t get parts because I’m too beautiful” Biel deserve each other.
@cs please post a link to the article where she says “i don’t get parts because i’m too beautiful”.
Beil seems like she hitched her star to a DBags wagon, but not a bad person.
I bet Jessica hates JT’s friends anyways since they helped him cover up his cheating to her
Alexandra, just google it, I read it too. Lainey for example was all over it.
And “Maybe I’m In…” – just check TG’s link in comment 29. He’s an idiot. If he would had been disgusted by it, he would have denied his involvement long ago.
I’ll bet alot of Hollywood types are just like this. They all show up to the charity events so as to be seen, but do they really do anything to help under the radar without the publicity? I doubt it. Their kind of help is donating an item (that they probably got for free) for a charity auction. Do they actually donate any of their own money? If Justin thinks that making fun of the homeless is funny, then he is a sad speck of a human being.
Read Lainey’s coverage of JT from a few weeks ago. The Shriner’s Hospital is firing him from their charity because he wasn’t doing enough to bring attention to their cause and when the cameras were not around he disappeared. http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Celebrity/80/Details/24789/Justin-Timberlake–Shriners-break-up-disappears-when-cameras-arent-rolling
That is so sad, especially since that involves children. Maybe when they have children of their own and are teaching them life’s lessons they will have a different view and be more caring towards those less fortunate. You can only hope that for vapid people like this.
I’ll bet your right. I get the impression that the majority of celebrities support charities because their manager or PR team have told them it’s good for their public image and they’ll get a lot of publicity from it. If there were no cameras around and people magazine to write what wonderful people they are, most would never help out any charity.
The editor’s of People have to be seething right now. There is no way to spin this.
Of course there’s a way to spin it – omission. I watched GMA this morning and didn’t see any mention of this despite the fact that they spent several minutes discussing the People cover on yesterday’s show.
Of course, I was in the bathroom at certain parts of the telecast, so I could be wrong.
I feel compelled to comment on this because i can’t quite believe was a spoilt bunch of people they are – not just jessica and justin but the entire wedding party too Absolutely disgusting.
Infact i actually write the words ‘spoilt bunch of c*nts’ but though that night get taken down!!
How disgusting and reprehensible.
I always believed he was a douche and this only reaffirms it. I don’t understand on what planet this would even be considered funny at a wedding no less. Smh. Disgusting. And if I was Jessica and one of his dbag friends played this at MY/OUR wedding I would shut it down immediatley! Just shows she is a doormat who goes along with anything he wants or is a dbag herself, both of which are totally plausible. I wonder if this is one of the things that made their $6 million wedding ‘really special’ and will be included in the people mag spread? No one should buy that edition, just on principle. Their friends are a reflection of them and I hate his music and her acting so I can’t say they lost a fan since I wasn’t one to begin with.
Loathesome. Disgusting. Speaks volumes to the character of all. I can’t even imagine how awkward it would have been watching this at a wedding! Holy crap. Twisted.
What a baby villain.
What broken ass home does Timberlake come from ? Disgusting.
well, the fact that someone in their entourage “leaked” the video tells me that (s)he has hard feelings towards the bride and groom, and wanted to punish them for whatever reason. besides, lainey’s blind item was whispered by an insider: if your entourage is not loyal to you, what does it tell about the way you treat them?
That’s an interesting point. Might not be someone who has a grudge against as much as someone there who found the whole thing as disgusting as we all do and wanted it to be known.
Or it was someone, who was equally disgusted and repulsed by watching this video, which is the only adequate reaction to this bullshit. If I somehow happened to be at that wedding, I would have leaked it, too. It really does show his/their true colours.
This. I would have leaked it if I was there. I would have also stolen some extra champagne.
Ugh, I was highly enjoying the douchetastic People cover, with his jumping up and down Tom Cruise-syle and her sitting pretty and heeling at his feet like the family dog, but then THIS! I hope both their career’s (such as it is in her case) take major hits since the only reason this wedding probably happened in the first place was for PR. We’ve all got acquaintances or extended family that we would be horrified if they were given a camera at our wedding, but THIS was their best friends that go on vacations with them, around them all the time, etc. and this took time/planning. Plus, Justin the control freak would have never allowed someone who didn’t know what he liked any face time at his wedding to play a video. This reflects just as much on Justin / Jessica as it does anyone at the wedding who laughed. HORRIBLE PEOPLE!
Jessica doesn’t have much of a career in the first place. And it’s one of Justin’s best friends, not her’s, so I wouldn’t wish her anything unwell. She’s harmless.
A real “let them eat cake” moment. I’ve never wished somebody to become destitute before, but there’s a first time for everything. Justin and his friends sound like revolting excuses for human beings and ought to spend a few weeks homeless.
“A real “let them eat cake” moment”
You have said it well.
I’m not sure if this has already been commented on…but can you believe PEOPLE put Britney’s pic on the cover? The placement is very strategic as well. If I was Jessica, I’d be so pi$$ed!
Justin Timberlake = biggest tool ever.
We are working so hard to teach our son:
You will be known by your treatment of those who are weaker than you: the elderly, children, animals, those who lack your resources. If we can teach him kindness to those who have less than he does and a work ethic I think we will have done a decent job as parents.
I can only hope we can keep him away from any douchebag who would find something like this funny.
@PrettyTarheel, you just made my day. So eloquently said. I have a son who has Aspergers. He is so intelligent, but we are constantly coaching him on having empathy for others. THIS, what you just put so beautifully into words, is exactly what I need to say to him. I’ve always said that he doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist. He just has to be kind to others, and his life will have meaning.
I am disappointed in JT and JB. They have so many resources to help others. Instead, they’ve let these people down. What I wouldn’t give to have the opportunity to help others on that kind of scale.
Thank you-if he’s really into the intellectual side of arguments, there is a great quote from Ghandi about this very topic, as well as some studies regarding the benefits of living an altruistic lifestyle. You might not get material benefits, but how you feel about the world and your place in it are greatly enhanced with an altruistic outlook. Could appeal to the logical side of empathy? I don’t pretend to know anything about raising a child with Aspergers, but from what you’re saying about his intelligence, that could be an approach.
Good luck-it’s great to see there are other parents out there trying to teach more than the “Me me me all about me” approach to life.
When I was in college for lower elementary ed, I read that a child learns empathy by age five. If that hasn’t happened, for whatever reason, it can be very difficult to correct. If parents don’t care, look the other way, this can be how these kids live for the rest of their lives.
Thank you, @Pretty Tarheel, that’s a great recommendation for him. I will definitely look into that!
@Susie, I do worry at times. He’s 7. I hope we have planted enough empathy seeds in time. I do see progress in him. But if he turns out like JT I will feel like a supreme failure as a parent. : )
@Dirtnap
In your family, your son has been taught to be kind to others. People, pets, animals and their feelings are important. He sees this on a daily basis at home. You are making sure he will be a compassionate person. At seven he is still very young to always do the right thing.
I absolutely agree – I’ve always believed you can tell a person’s character by how they treat those who are vulnerable whether it’s an animal, a person down on their luck, a person with a disability, anything. Was it a friend that did this and not actually Justin or Jessica? Yes. But not only would I NEVER have a friend who would think I would find that funny (or other friends that would support it) but I would have absolutely flipped out and told that person to leave. I know a lot of people are saying he should donate the money from the People mag, but what is $300,000 to someone like him? Chump change. And it doesn’t change anything. Publicly coming out and saying it was a terrible thing, owning his/her responsibility in it by NOT stopping the film, that might help, but silently donating money is just as offensive. It’s like shouting “I can do whatever I want and if you don’t like it I’ll write a check – I’ll never even know the money is gone!”
This. I have a friend who married this kind of douche, and I cried when they got engaged. I don’t even want to be associated with him by degrees. I’ve never understood how she married him. She holds the power in their relationship, so he’s sweet as pie to her and to people with power, but I worry about how he will treat their children. He babysat my dog once when we were out of town, and I’m pretty sure he hit him. The doggie can’t tell on him with words, but the body language was pretty clear. There’s no way I would leave my son in his care for any reason.
Douche and idiot.
You really can judge a person by his friends..
I may regret this in the morning but I’m going to defend Timberlake here.
This kind of wedding video is not ground-breaking. A few weeks go in NY, some people gave $20 – $30 each to homeless folks to sing into the wedding video for their friends and I’m sure its been done in other places.
Was it right? Absolutely Not
But J2 are not the first people to have s8it like this at their wedding and no doubt they ostensibly thought it would be private as oppose publicised as an out and out attack on the less fortunate.
Their People wedding cover I took as a piss take on their percieved personalities she the docile doormat and he the egocentric powerhouse. They were probably trying to mock themselves as opposed to the cheesy look-into-each other’s-eyes-like-its-the-first-time-snap.
I never thought the day would come that I would defend them but I AM starting to feel really sorry for them. It seems to be a pile on, with relish to tear into the two of them on what is’was supposed to be a joyous occasion.
Ah well
Just because there are other nasty people in the world doesn’t make this video less awful. They had a six million dollar wedding and laughed at homeless people. Pretty ishy stuff and not people to feel sorry for.
Lamont is kind of right.
We are attacking people when we have no evidence they found a friends video entertaining.
We just know it was played at the wedding.
Yes people do this all the time. And this is 1 jerk that made a terrible video yet right away you condemn everyone who attended.
This will all be forgotten until the next article you read bringing it up and the armchair in you pokes its head out with an opinion.
Now let’s all gang up on my opinion because it isn’t agreeable with the majority.
@alexandrabananarama:
Honestly, just stop. Stop going after people for being appalled, outraged and even hurt to see very rich people mock very poor people for sport. You’re not brave, you’re not an iconoclast standing proud against a majority. Grow up.
And – you are NO ONE’s arbiter of who is ‘a little right’ or whatever. Nice. That is so arrogant and obnoxious and telling of you.
Whats the diffrence between someone who has a 6 million wedding versus someone who spend avg money on a wedding? They are both making fun of those less fourtunate. Why is everyong taking a piss on Timberlake here? From what I know he did not make the video but his pal did. He laughed yes and I wonder how many of you would have reacted. Most of you porbably would have laughed too. I am sure every single one of you here against Timberlake has made fun of another person misfourtune. Maybe them not being homeless but something else. Hypocrites all.
lol, what people do you know who do this all the time? I’ve been to a lot of weddings and have never seen anything close to this. if you’re the kind of person who is only sorry they get caught, then you’re an asshole.
I have never even heard of someone doing this for any reason wedding or no. Just when I think I know it all I discover that no there are really disgusting people out there and JT and Jess are two of them that come to mind. Like it has been said above this was a wedding of a control freak does anyone really think something like this would have been played if they didn’t already know how he would take it? This isn’t some backyard country wedding where the entire family, church, community is invited this is a celebrity wedding where everything is controlled and vetted down to the last detail, no random video would have been played if it wasn’t going to be received well and maybe even expected. I mean this is a man who couldn’t even let his bride walk down the aisle without inserting himself into it somehow. I think JT just might be the most arrogant self-centered douche in hollywood right now. He might even top tommygirl.
What I want to know is who leaked this video? I can imagine the horror and visceral disgust of some of the wedding guests upon seeing this “let them eat cake” piece of garbage film.
Justin and Jessica now have the taint of Leona Hemsley, and I hope they are held accountable in the court of public opinion.
what a pos, making a video like that! i am going to post this link anywhere i can.
This is so disgusting and wrong. I wonder what the guests (people like jimmy fallon, for instance, who’s someone I find alright) felt like watching this.
i also wonder how something like that leaked. thankfully it did, as it seals JT’s douchery for good.
I secretly hope it was Jimmy Fallon who leaked the video.
Me, I’m hoping it was Joey Fatone. He wasn’t invited, so this was his revenge. Or maybe JC Sachez snuck behind the buffet table and secretly filmed the homeless well-wisher video.
I watch Jimmy Fallon whenever I can. Love his show. Love how he interacts with everyone. Please do not have JT on as a guest anytime soon or it will appear as support and I won’t have the feeling Jimmy is a nice guy anymore.
As a person who has struggled with a serious psychiatric illness, bipolar disorder, for years, I am speechless. I don’t want to go into the gory details, but I’ve been through hell and back because of this disease — and yes, it is a disease. The only difference between those “crazy” people on the street is that I have had good medical care and people who cared and fought for me. There but for the grace of God go I.
Jerks.
Thanks MST. I don’t like to get personal but this is where I see my future and its not funny. No-one expects a handout but to laugh at it is too much. There but for the grace of god indeed
MST, I wish you nothing but the best. And good for you for letting us know that there but by the grace of God go US.
You have my best wishes as well, MST. Thank you for sharing; you make an excellent point. We are all getting by on grace.
Well said! So glad you wrote that. I have mental illness as well, and I have the same reaction that you had “ther go I but for the grace of god.” I am so so lucky to have access to doctors and medication, and it is so appalling and heartbreaking to me that so many people who suffer from mental illness and cannot get treatment have to not only undergo the Agony of untreated mental illness, but also have to deal with ridicule and disgust from people jt. I’d love to see him try to last even one day with the burdens the homeless deal with.
MST: I like to think that there is some truth to this quote, “With great difficulty comes great reward”
Someone with a heart and soul, or at the very least someone who is aware that this is wrong, leaked this video.
To that someone; Thank you.
These people don’t live in the real world. The poor are a novelty to entertain themselves while feasting on diamond encrusted wedding cake. Where’s a guilliotine (sp?) when you need one?
I think that wedding photo on People says it all about Justin, HIS wedding & HIS relationship. It’s all about JUSTIN! It’s cool, a much older & experienced friend once told me “you gotta end up with someone who loves you more than you love them” It’s clear Jessica loves him more and it’s clear that Justin love Justin more than he does Jessica. Sometimes waiting around for an asshole to not be such an asshole anymore just isn’t worth it. And then sometimes you just gotta have your 6 million dollar wedding & ugly pink dress! So get it girl.
A stunning example of arrogance and ignorance.
Yes it is that simple.
They are so dispicable. While they have the most expensive celebrity wedding in history they have the nerve to do that. Now I think they are both p.o.s. . I never like either one now I loathe justin and jess. They could have stop the viewing of it at the moment they realized what they were watching and not laughed but I bet they watched it anyway.
I didn’t find the video that offensive. Is it a little cruel and out of touch? yes. I do feel for the homeless, especially the homeless veterans, but if anything this video reflects how out of touch some of the wealthy are to the lower class.
Clearly, no one remembers how horrific bum fights was? Where jackass wannabees payed bums to fight for money and liquor, that was demented and evil.
Let me get this straight, you admit it’s cruel but you don’t find it offensive? Yeah, that makes total sense.
What you’ve written makes no sense. You assume people are up in arms about this yet would have smiled and gotten out the popcorn for bum fights? That is the only logical interpretation of what you’ve written, and it’s inane in the extreme.
Life isn’t zero-sum to decent people. Decent people are capable of being appalled by ‘bum fights’ and by this video. Don’t pretend otherwise.
Tacky, tacky, tacky.
Two pieces of well-dressed trash. Britney may have psychological issues but she saw right through him early on.
That’s probably why she had the breakdown after falling head over heels and got him back by cheating. I hope these two don’t breed.
What a sick joke! And when you think of it, it’s also sick that the newlyweds have so much money they can afford to spend $6.5 million on a PARTY! Jessica called it “a fantasy,” but actually, for her, it was no fantasy, it was for real. For the rest of us, it’s fantasy!
I’ll never again see either of them in the same way. They have no social conscience at all.
You could argue they helped the economy by spending so much, but they didn’t even hold the wedding in the USA, so it actually helped the Italian economy.
Yes! This! I was thinking the same thing…a fantasy??? Isn’t this the same girl who can walk around in thousands of dollars of clothing every day, eat at the very best restaurants, go on the most indulgent vacations, have a personal trainer and chef? Her LIFE is a fantasy! So annoying when such wealthy celebs act like this isn’t something they can do any other weekend. Well, maybe the getting married part, but to have that kind of life everyday…smh
Big donation to a homeless charity by the newlyweds in 3…2…1…
BINGO!!
I hope they at least gave them some food or money. I never like Justin, he’s an immature imbecile. She apparently is a doormat that he wipes his feet on when he is not out with another woman.
Seriously?! What do you get for the person who has everything? A video of homeless people giving well wishes for destination fantasy wedding? What a fuc#!ng idiot his friend is…couldn’t he have maybe put together a video of family & friends wishing them luck? God knows they need it…
Timberdouche can stick a fork in himself…DONE!!
And as a real estate agent, I must say, we like to wind down and have fun as well. People don’t want to believe our jobs are stressful, but as somone who isn’t pusing a 100k car and flossing on BRAVO, it is for me. A big part of what I do goes towards trying to strengthen our reputation as well as helping people in what is a stressful and life altering process.
…thank God I can come snark on CB tho! LMAO
As for the video maker, well now that’s one realtor career down the toilet isn’t it. Not the type of person I’d let help/advise me in my next property transaction. It is a business where reputation is everything and soon there won’t be anyone who doesn’t know about this a**hole.
So true Susie! Care and diligence at all times! LOL
I was thinking that would be the silver lining in all this – if the jerk’s real estate career tanked bc of this but then I looked at his website and his clientele are multi-millionaires so who knows if this will affect him?
I think Justin has obviously ticked off a lot of people in the entertainment media industry, and now they’re allll getting digs in. Not only was this disgusting video released the day of the big People Mag reveal, but even People stuck that little photo of Britney in the corner! Seems to me professional payback time.
mocking the homeless, mentally ill, and poor at someone’s wedding?!? how despicable, undignified, and straight up CLASSLESS can you get? so repulsive. homeless people are still PEOPLE, and they deserve BASIC human respect. i hope someone told that elitist jackass justin huchul to stick his “video” where the sun don’t shine, and told off each any every asshole who had the temerity to laugh at these people who probably weren’t even COGNIZANT that they were being exploited. someone should sue huchul’s dumb ass for using the imagery of people who probably weren’t fully competent to give their legal informed consent for anything, let alone being made fun of at a millionaire’s wedding. UGH!
I have always loathed this little twerp with his girlish looks and voice…but this just takes the cake for me.
Karma buddy. Maybe someday you’ll end up on Santa Monica at night turning tricks or lying in the gutter all f’d up.
Then I’d LAUGH my ass off.
I think Janet Jackeson and her fans are getting a good laugh at all this. I was watching a review of past SNL skits and they had a brief spot where JT was talking about doing the “Put a Ring on It” dance with Beyonce and he was saying how he and Beyonce don’t take themselves too seriously and I nearly choked. This twerp takes himself VERY seriously. He is nothing but an insignificant piece of scum.
And Britney Spears fans.
Sign on with Eve and everyone else; and to think I laughed at his schtick on SNL; I’m not really into boy acts so I didn’t really follow him but i gues he is a douche; while Mitt romney is no prize, do the jackasses in lalaland realize they are no better, they blow through money like it’s nothing just like Romney’s circle, and yet most despise him – why because they see their own reflection? Oh, right on jankywhitegirl. But make it a butter knife so the pain lingers.
There really isn’t much I can add to this discussion other than I agree, with everyone.
Man, that is just bad bad bad judgment. Has JT spoken up about it yet? Or just this dude’s lawyers?
Like his song says what goes around comes back around.first he didn’t get anything heat from Janet Jackson and he might escape this too.power and privilege and money.
You know what? It’s fitting they got married before awards season, I SOOOO see them as the couple that gets laughed at by other hollywood couples. I can see it now, Golden Globes, Oscars, etc they’ll be getting “mean coupled” secretly by the likes of Michael and CZJ, Matt Damon and his wife, etc…LOL
Such Revolting people. SMH
As I predicted in my earlier comments E! is bending over backwards to help spin it for this little twerp. They ahve an article on how his wedding did not cost $6.5 million. No mention of the video either. Why would you have an article titled JT’s wedding did not cost such and such? They are trying to set the spin in motion so when they are forced to cover, however briefly the video allegations they can make the landing soft for this punk. Not working E. Bunch of losers.
I think it’s funny the “film maker” (ugh, that makes me sick to write)is actually threatening legal action because this was a “personal” video. I doubt most, if not all, those people in the video were capable of giving consent. Filming someone without getting consent to use for entertainment = total exploitation.What would be wonderful is if one of the people filmed were able to take action and sue the living sh*t out of the friend, Justin, Jessica and any other person who assisted with production. I feel like some effort should be made to identify those people in the video to see how THEY want to proceed if it was explained to them what this video was used for.
Just weighing in to agree that the video is disgusting. I’ve liked his music in the past and I don’t think he’s that bad of an actor but I really can’t give him the benefit of the doubt here. I’m remembering the way he threw Janet under the bus which always left a bad taste in my mouth and based on gossip items about his past behaviour, he seems just the kind of petty, bitchy, clueless, frat boy sort to think that this video is funny. And for that he deserves all of the castigation to come his way. No comment on Jessica the doormat but to reflect on her strained smile on that People cover and hope she comes to her senses soon.
A ha, frat boy humor. Couldn’t have said it better.
horrible. what awful people.
I absolutely loathe the DM as a newspaper , but i didn’t see anyone else running the story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223094/Homeless-man-paid-40-appear-Justin-Timberlake-wedding-video.html
Just the other day I was wondering where his douche reputation came from. Well I got my answer. Gross, gross, gross.
Ha ha, poor people! So funny! This is sick and can’t be defended. They only regret that they got caught.
Who you associate with speaks volumes about your character. I mean, how does a person even come up with this kind of thing? And they don’t have the maturity to figure out that it’s not a good idea? I’d call them a bunch of overgrown kids, but even most kids have more sensitivity than that.
TMZ has found one of the guys who featured in the video, well worth a watch. He’s dressed up nicely and out looking for work in order to change his life. Completely appalling what they did to him. I’m just sickened by it.
http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/25/justin-timberlake-jessica-biel-wedding-video-homeless-guy-40-dollars/
I actually posted the Gawker article on my FB last night. I can’t even begin to say how this disgusts me. Dude is a real estate agent. Maybe a nice gift would be to film some homeless people & say, hey in honor of the clock starting on your divorce timer, I got these people places to live for a year. Or I made a donation to Dress For Success in honor of that ugly ass dress you wore. Douchebags.
Arrogant dreadful people.
Didn’t some Real Housewife’s son assault a homeless man in Florida and then post on YouTube because he thought it was funny
But in the end every one of our actions or inactions is accounted for and paid in full
How soon before Justin fires his cousin/assistant?
JT needs to donate the entire proceeds from the wedding photos to a LA Homeless Shelter.
This video actually sounds kind of funny. Going up to random people and having them pretend like they know the couple. If they weren’t clearly homeless people, nobody would care, but since they’re homeless, they deserve to be “protected” or something.
1.The people you are born to can’t shame you however the people you CHOOSE to bring into your life can. That joke video that Your friend made was tacky, low class, dumb and MEAN. Making fun of homeless people who may have mental health issues and showing it at a lavish wedding was so TONE DEAF.
2.I work as a school social worker and some of the children I have an opportunity to help sometimes live in homeless shelters, and run down hotels and even campers. Whole families live this way. So when I saw that video, all I could think about were kids. One parent or both parents losing a job, can sometimes put families in a state of poverty which can lead to their homelessness. Sometimes dealing with temporary poverty and homelessness can affect your mental health.
3.If anyone wants to see in real time the effects of “potential poverty” on a person’s mental health please find Justin’s Punk’d episode. How do you think Justin felt when he saw all off his sh*t on the street, locked out of his house, and being told he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars? I never thought that stunt was funny and I always believed it was mean. Oh well, it was just a joke, thank goodness JT could go back to his life.
4.This joke video came out at the same time you released your “private” wedding pictures that you SOLD to People Magazine. JT you have more than a PR problem as I see it. IMHO, the UNIVERSE is trying to tell you something.
How many of you seriously have never made fun of another person misfourtune? Okay not as far as being homeless but other things? If any of you here have made fun of,done things, laughed at others in a bad sitation then you are all hypocrites for ousting Timberlake here. I don’t even like him, his acting, music but this just seems like another way to take a piss at a celeb.
I can say with certainty I have NEVER used a person’s misfortune to ridicule, make fun of, or exploit for my amusement. Perhaps you have, or people you know have, and that’s truly unfortunate. But no, I was raised to have respect for those who are vulnerable, and if someone is doing something I find offensive I might state why I find it offensive, but no, I do not delight in the suffering of other living creatures. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and in case that doesn’t mean anything to you suffice it to say I’ve dedicated my life to helping others – from severe mental illness to drug addiction to various intellectual disabilities. Yes, there are jaded people in my field as well as in general that don’t always “practice what they preach” but for the most part I am surrounded by people that would be horrified by the exploitation of any population. We clearly don’t do it for the money or because we aren’t smart enough to do any better, we do it because we believe in equality, justice and goodwill. DO NOT assume all people have at some time engaged in this kind of disgusting behavior. I absolutely have my faults, but I assure you this is not one of them, nor is it “human nature” or a silent practice everyone is doing/has done and publicly denying.
Yeah misforunte doesn’t have to be a person who is homeless/needy/mental. It could also be like someone being embarassed in class or someone doing somethng stupid but misfortunate. Basically anyone who is in a bad sitation. Even watching a person slip and fall is misforunte, you mean to tell me you have never laughed or made fun of something like that? I don’t belive you. Everyone at some point has made fun of,laughed at the expense of soemone. I will admit it. I have not laughed at the homeless,poor,disabled but I have laughed at kids in my class doing something stupid which embarassed themselves, which is also misfortune. You are a hypocrite if you have ever done something like that. I thinks it unfortunate that people like to find faults with others but don’t take a look in the mirror. I am pretty sure you have laughed at the expense of someone else too. What I am trying to say is that people should not get mad at Timberlake here when they themselves have probably done the same thing too. Including you.