NSYNC star addresses Justin Timberlake absence at Deadpool & Wolverine premiere

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Bandmates Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez and Lance Bass were seen posing on the red carpet alongside Gossip Girl star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, who stars in the film, but Bass said on social media that Timberlake was “there in spirit”. The film sees the duo take on Emma Corrin’s supervillain Cassandra Nova – the evil twin sister of Professor X. open image in gallery NSYNC have a get-together at the ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ premiere While Lively and other celebrity guests, including Madonna and model Gigi Hadid, seemed impressed at the premiere, the film has received mixed reviews, with The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey giving the film a paltry two stars and calling it “tedious and annoying corporate merger of a film”. open image in gallery Timberlake returned to stage days after his arrest, telling fans it had been a ‘tough week’ “Deadpool was always the satiric turn – but this is a movie which more or less orders the audience to stop taking any of the proceedings seriously,” he wrote. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free The “Sexy Back” musician’s tour has continued despite his arrest on 21 June for alleged drink driving in the wealthy Hamptons enclave of Sag Harbor, Long Island.