JUSTIN TIMBER-LATE

Space cadet Lance Bass recently admitted he was waiting for Justin Timberlake to return to 'N Sync for months, not realizing that Justin's ballad 'Gone' was a SUBTLE hint he was never coming back.

Lance 'Columbo' Bass said, "When you really look back at it, with the song 'Gone', it was just him, no one else had any leads... it was just his solo record."

Bergerac Bass, who used his boyband cash to train with NASA so he could do a civilian space flight, continued: "Never did we think that it was grooming him to become a solo artist so that he wouldn't go back to 'N Sync."

So then, Lance, when Justin had The Neptunes on the phone talking to him about recording some Jacko rip off tracks, wasn't that a bit of a clue? Did Hercule Bass think Justin was just going to pop out for a pint of milk?

Rumpole Of The Bass seems quite upset with megastar Justin for leaving, accusing Timberlake of costing him "so many opportunities" as he forlornly stood in an overpriced LA recording studio looking at the empty fifth chair and crying onto his NASA brochures. Lance Bauer reckons he had "some television projects" that he wanted to do, but knew couldn't because of the band. Like what, CSI Pluto?