Clueless star Elisa Donovan thought she'd be saying “bye, bye, bye” after working with ‘NSync — however started secretly relationship one of many boyband members as an alternative.
“They did an episode of Clueless,” Donovan, 54, recalled through the Monday, August 11, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast, referring to the Clueless TV sequence that ran from 1996 to 1999. “The studio stated, ‘It is a actually large deal. These guys are popping out.' And I used to be identical to, ‘Proper. Are you kidding me? These little boys? This, like, boy band?' I used to be actually making enjoyable of them earlier than they bought to set.”
Regardless of her preliminary hesitancy, Donovan's notion of the group — which consists of Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick — rapidly shifted when the fivesome arrived on set.
“They're tremendous skilled. They're actually sort. Extremely gifted,” she remembered considering. “And I used to be like, ‘Oh, I'm the jerk.'”
After their time working collectively, Donovan claimed that she began “hanging out” with the band and ultimately, she and Fatone, 48, “began relationship.” (Donovan starred as Amber in 1995's Clueless earlier than reprising the position on the ABC/UPN sitcom.)
“That was underneath the radar,” she added.
Donovan and Fatone's romance led to her spending time at concert events backstage with the band, the place the actress recalled working into Boy Meets World star and “Pod Meets World” cohost Danielle Fishel, who was relationship Bass, 46, on the time.
“I bear in mind going to the present on the Staples Heart or one thing in L.A., like, one of many large venues,” Donovan stated throughout Monday's episode. “I get out of the automotive, and I'm swarmed as if I'm one of many Beatles, you recognize? They usually have been identical to, ‘She's moving into to see them!' And I used to be like, ‘Oh my God … that is insane.'”
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Donovan referred to as the ‘NSync pandemonium “wild” to expertise, sharing that they'd look to hang around at locations the fellows wouldn't get mobbed.
Finally, Donovan was forged in 'NSync's video for his or her hit 1999 single “Pondering of You (I Drive Myself Loopy),” during which Donovan performs Fatone's love curiosity who slaps him after he kisses one other lady in entrance of her. Fishel, for her half, stated she wasn't featured within the video as a result of “Lance had simply damaged up with me,” however she was on set for filming.
“I assumed you weren't in it since you didn't wish to be. I assumed it was too on the nostril as a result of then individuals would know you guys have been relationship,” Donovan stated, to which Fishel replied, “At this level he had already instructed individuals on Jay Leno we have been relationship, so I used to be, like, the primary girlfriend to be allowed to be talked about.'”
Fishel famous that the “Drive Myself Loopy” video was proper after her promenade, the place the pair had referred to as it quits, however Bass nonetheless “invited me to the shoot, which was actually painful.”
“I used to be so unhappy,” she confessed. “I believe I even introduced our promenade photos to that shoot. Like, ‘Right here's our promenade photos, are you positive you wish to do that?'”
Bass got here out as homosexual in 2006, seven years after his breakup from Fishel. Donovan, for her half, recalled questioning Bass' sexuality again within the day, asking Fishel if the remainder of ‘NSync knew about Lance's sexuality and saved it a secret. Fishel claimed that whereas “Chris did say issues usually” behind the scenes, Lance was “very a lot of the idea that he might ‘shake the homosexual away' if he might simply meet the precise lady.”
“We beloved one another, it was simply platonic,” Fishel defined. “And we nonetheless care about one another.”
