Earlier this week, two glorious cellphone hacking scandals — starring the boobtastic Scarlett Johansson and the douchetastic Justin Timberlake — were revealed to the internet. In an interesting twist, Life & Style just sent us news of their exclusive eyewitness account of Scarlett and Justin’s semi-public meetup to “help each other weather the storm” over their mutual embarrassment. Of course, this is an interesting development because ScarJo and JT have been the subject of much romantic speculation a few times already. In 2007, Scarlett starred in a ridiculous movie video for one of Justin’s songs (and then supposedly rejected him). More rumors surfaced in January and June of this year after ScarJo split with Ryan Reynolds. Now, Life & Style‘s article makes it look like ScarJo is sweet on Justin, but now he’s the one who’s not interested. Hmm.

If Justin Timberlake and Scarlett Johansson are struggling to cope with the alleged hacking scandals that hit them both this week, they’re not letting it show. In fact, Life & Style can reveal that the old friends met up this morning to help each other weather the storm by doing what they do best: partying!

At 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, the two stars arrived together at NYC hot spot 1Oak and were said to be having a great time in each other’s company.

“They were dancing and talking to each other all night like old friends,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. “People were surprised that she showed up with him, but they both seemed happy to see each other.”

Scarlett, 26, is reportedly working with the FBI to find out who hacked into her cell phone and distributed what appear to be naked photos of the blond beauty, which appeared on the web on Sept. 14. Justin, 30, is said to be going through a similar situation: Photos showing the singer in “compromising positions” were allegedly taken from the cell phone of his Friends With Benefits co-star Mila Kunis and could reportedly appear online soon.

But neither star showed signs of stress at the hot spot. “He was all smiles with her,” adds the eyewitness.

“Scarlett and Justin left together with two of his friends around 5 a.m. and hopped into a black SUV,” the eyewitness tells Life & Style. “You can tell the two are great friends and had a blast together. Scarlett seemed really into him, but he didn’t seem interested because of Jessica Biel. It was like he just considers it a friendship.”

As Life & Style previously reported, Justin has recently rekindled his romance with Jessica Biel. Scarlett and Justin have been friends ever since she appeared in his 2006 music video for “What Goes Around Comes Around.”

[From Life & Style]

So if Justin is hanging out with Scarlett, where exactly did he leave girlfriend Jessica Biel for the evening? Maybe Jessica’s angry at him for those leaked Mila Kunis pics. Or maybe JT just spends time with everyone else but Jessica. She sure puts up with a lot to be his girlfriend-in-name; I have to wonder exactly what she gets out of the relationship and how long she’ll deal with his crap before giving up for good.

Meanwhile, Timberlake is still promoting In Time, so he covers the October issue of Esquire. I actually rolled my eyes when I saw his face staring up from inside the mailbox this afternoon. Still, I devoured the interview in hopes that there’d be something worth excerpting. What awaited was truly shocking not so much for JT himself but because it was quite unlike the kind of negative celebrity profile for which Esquire has recently acquired the reputation of printing. If you’ll recall, they’ve done doozies on Matthew McConaughey, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, and Brooklyn Decker. In sharp contrast, this journalist — a (presumably) gay man named Chris Jones — might be the biggest JT fan that exists today.

Exactly what has gotten into Esquire? My theory is that Timberlake’s rep got wind of all the negative interviews coming from Esquire lately and asked for someone who treats douches sympathetically. And someone who might possibly also offer to blow him too. I’m not joking on that last part either. At the beginning of the interview, the journo agrees to Justin’s idea to dress up like Bert and Ernie and attend San Diego Comic-Con in disguise. After the two suit up, the journo gets all excited and writes, “I think I might try to blow him later.” It only gets worse from there in terms of hero worship with stuff like “Timberlake is one of those rare performers who can be all things to all people.” The rest of the profile provides no illuminating information but merely a series of observations about what it’s like to wander around SDCC with JT while dressed up as Sesame Street characters:

Fame is a very strange thing. Lots of people ask to take our photos, and they stand between us, smiling, thumbs-up. None of them has any idea who they’re really taking their picture with. Timberlake gets visibly nervous the more closed in we get, his legs jittery, his big head swiveling side to side. I’ve asked him to take off his mask at some perfect moment this afternoon, to give some teenage girl the thrill of her young life. “No way, dude,” he says, “You have no idea what it’s like.” Today is the first time he’s walked this freely around in public, he says, since 2001, maybe 2002, since he began making the remarkable transition from boy-band tenderfoot to solo singer to all-around entertainer to sketchy Ernie guy. “I can sometimes walk around New York if I dress the right way,” he says, “but that’s it.” [T]oday, this afternoon, thanks to his ridiculous costume, he’s able to stand in the middle of things again, without fear, without needing [his bodyguard] to stand between him and the love. I might feel like more of a celebrity than I’ve ever been, but he’s happily been feeling like less of one. “You’re witnessing one of the most memorable days of my life,” he says.

Poor JT and his trappings of fame, right? The interview also features a brief appearance by a “shy-seeming Amanda Seyfried” (told you so) who was also present at SDCC. Other than a drooling journalist, however, the Esquire piece arrives little else besides a photoshoot of Justin looking like a total tool in a “Man on Fire” theme. Allegedly, there were no special effects used in this shoot, but I’ll let you be the judge of that:

Photos courtesy of Fame and Esquire