73 Facts About Lance Bass

James Lance Bass is an American singer, dancer, actor, film, podcaster, and television producer.

Lance Bass grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band NSYNC.

Lance Bass was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program after several months of cosmonaut training and planned to join the TMA-1 mission to the International Space Station.

However, after his financial sponsors backed out, Lance Bass was denied a seat on the mission.

In July 2006, Lance Bass came out as gay in a cover story for People magazine.

Lance Bass was awarded the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award in October 2006 and released an autobiography, Out of Sync, in October 2007, which debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list.

James Lance Bass was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to James Irvin Bass Jr.

Lance Bass has described his family as devoutly Christian and conservative and has said that his childhood was "extremely happy".

When Lance Bass was 11 years old, his father was transferred to a different hospital, and the family moved to Clinton, Mississippi.

Lance Bass began singing in his Baptist church choir and was encouraged to audition for local performance groups by his childhood best friend, Darren Dale, the youngest child of former longtime Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale.

Lance Bass joined the Mississippi Show Stoppers, a statewide music group sponsored by the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, and the Attache Show Choir, a national-award-winning competitive show choir group at Clinton High School.

Lance Bass was a member of a seven-man vocal group named Seven Card Stud, which competed at state fairs and performed at several social and political events for Senator Trent Lott.

At Clinton High School, Lance Bass was elected vice president of his junior class and has said that he performed well in math and science.

However, Lance Bass later said that his primary focus during high school was singing, and when reflecting on it, he remembers "hardly anything" about academia.

In 1995, during his junior year of high school, Lance Bass received a call from Justin Timberlake and his mother, Lynn Harless, who asked Lance Bass if he would be interested in auditioning for the pop group NSYNC after the group's original bass singer, Jason Galasso, had quit.

Lance Bass was accepted into the group after auditioning in front of the other bandmembers, and soon left school to move to Orlando, Florida and rehearse full-time.

Lance Bass has said that he did not know how to dance before he joined NSYNC, and therefore found much of the group's choreography difficult to learn.

NSYNC began extensive touring in Europe, and Lance Bass's mother quit her job to tour with the group as a chaperone, as Lance Bass was still a minor.

NSync has not recorded new material since, and Lance Bass has stated that he feels the group has officially disbanded.

In 2007, Lance Bass said he had faith Timberlake would return after six months off to record another album with NSYNC, and that he felt betrayed by Timberlake's 2004 decision to pursue his solo career instead.

In 2000, Bass formed a music management company named Free Lance Entertainment, which was a joint venture with Mercury Nashville, a division of Mercury Records.

Edwards began touring with NSYNC as an opening act in the fall of 2000, and Lance Bass teamed up with MTV to hold a nationwide talent search for more artists later that year.

However, Free Lance Bass soon folded after disappointing sales of Edwards's debut album, Reach.

Lance Bass guest-starred on The WB drama series 7th Heaven, playing Rick Palmer, a love interest for Beverley Mitchell's character, Lucy.

Lance Bass played Kevin, a man who falls in love with a woman on a Chicago train and begins a search to find her again.

Lance Bass collaborated with Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and True Vibe for the film's theme song, "On The Line".

The film, along with Lance Bass's acting, was poorly received by critics.

Lance Bass later said he felt the film's success was greatly hindered by its release date, which came one week after the World Trade Center attacks of September 11,2001.

Lance Bass has lent his voice to several animated television programs, such as Robot Chicken and Disney's Kim Possible, Handy Manny and Higglytown Heroes.

Lance Bass ended his run in Hairspray on January 6,2008.

Lance Bass made an appearance in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder.

In 2014, Lance Bass guest starred on an episode of the Comedy Central series Review, in which he visited space along with the show's lead character.

In 2015, Lance Bass joined season two of The Meredith Vieira Show as a full-time contributing panelist.

In 2020, Lance Bass appeared with friend Joey Fatone on Meredith Veiera's syndicated program, 25 Words or Less.

Lance Bass was a contestant on season 7 of Dancing with the Stars and was paired with swing dance champ Lacey Schwimmer.

Lance Bass finished in third place with the title going to Burke.

In January 2001, Lance Bass formed his first film production company, A Happy Place, with film producers Rich Hull, Wendy Thorlakson and Joe Anderson.

Lance Bass was geared towards family-friendly films and received the Movieguide award for "Excellence in Family-Oriented Programming" for its first feature film, On the Line.

In 2008, Lance Bass co-produced The Grand, and Lance Bass' company is reported to be developing a music docudrama about the life of rock bands on tour.

In October 2011, Lance Bass debuted his own boy band called Heart2Heart.

Lance Bass was the host of the weekly "Pop2Kountdown" on Pop2K, which counts down the 30 biggest hits from that week from a different year in the 2000s.

Lance Bass dated actress Danielle Fishel of TV's Boy Meets World throughout 1999 and 2000.

Lance Bass ended the relationship after one year and continued to exclusively date women until he was 22.

Lance Bass began dating Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl in early 2006, a courtship that garnered tabloid coverage and led to Lance Bass's decision to come out.

Lance Bass described his relationship with Lehmkuhl as "very stable"; however, the couple split up several months later.

Shortly after his split with Lehmkuhl, Lance Bass briefly dated Brazilian model and LXTV host Pedro Andrade.

From August 2007 to March 2008, Lance Bass dated New York-based hairdresser Ben Thigpen.

Lance Bass is a self-described "huge Dr Seuss fan", devoting an entire room in his Jackson, Mississippi, estate to Seuss memorabilia.

Lance Bass has said he is a Christian and that he regularly attends church, though he considers himself to be non-denominational.

Lance Bass is the godfather of former bandmate and best friend Joey Fatone's daughters, Briahna and Kloey.

Lance Bass came out as gay in a cover story for People magazine on July 26,2006.

The American public's reaction was generally positive, with Lance Bass receiving "overwhelming support" from many teenagers and young adults who grew up listening to 'N Sync.

Lance Bass found himself in the midst of further controversy later that year when he, along with then-boyfriend Reichen Lehmkuhl, was awarded 2006 Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award on October 7,2006.

Lance Bass began dating painter and actor Michael Turchin in January 2011 and they became engaged in September 2013.

In March 2020, Lance Bass announced the couple had lost a baby via the surrogate having a miscarriage at eight weeks.

In June 2021, Lance Bass announced they were expecting twins by early November.

Banks took her longtime associate David Krieff of Destiny Productions on board and through a series of events in August 2002, Lance Bass entered cosmonaut training in Star City, Russia.

Lance Bass was considered as the host of a US version of a space competition show, The Big Mission, that had been successful in Denmark; contestants would go through rigorous training and vie for a seat on a Russian Soyuz space capsule.

Lance Bass was scheduled to fly into space on the Soyuz TMA-1 mission that was to be launched on October 30,2002.

Lance Bass was eventually rejected from the program, and was replaced on the flight by Russian cosmonauts Yury Lonchakov and Sergei Zalyotin and Belgium's Frank De Winne.

In 2003, Lance Bass began serving as World Space Week's Youth Spokesman.

Lance Bass has said that he believes young people becoming more interested in space exploration "will help the future of our planet".

From 2003 to 2005, Lance Bass spent World Space Week traveling to American high schools speaking with students about space exploration and encouraging them to explore careers in science and mathematics.

Lance Bass is a member of the National Space Society, a non-profit educational space advocacy organization founded by Wernher von Braun.

Lance Bass has retained fluency in Russian, which he was required to learn during his training.

Lance Bass said Justin Timberlake was the sole reason NSYNC did not get back together.

In 2003, Lance Bass donated $30,000 US to establish the Amber Pulliam Special Education Endowment at the University of Southern Mississippi.

That same year, Lance Bass appeared on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with a donation to a Russian woman to save a camp for disabled children in Russia.

Lance Bass is a member of the Environmental Media Association's board of directors.

Lance Bass has been involved with Animal Avengers, Shannon Elizabeth's animal rescue organization.

Lance Bass has two dogs which he adopted from a rescue shelter, both of whom he posed with in a PETA ad urging people to adopt rather than buy animals.

In September 2007, Lance Bass participated in a series of GLAAD television advertisements promoting tolerance for the LGBT community.

Lance Bass has been involved in fundraising for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.