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    Not Justin time

    Mar 25, 2021 3 minutes

    Sarah Ditum on Pop

    JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is sorry for everything. He’s sorry about the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show, when he exposed Janet Jackson’s boob during a dance routine — a wardrobe malfunction that knocked her career into the doldrums for a decade after outraged moralists inveighed against her apparently autonomous tit, but which had no consequences for him.

    He’s sorry how he treated Britney Spears, too. (Timberlake has been particularly criticised for his 2002 “Cry Me a River” video, which featured a lookalike

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