1. Nick Carter has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality shows, House of Carters and I Nick Carter.
70 Facts About Nick Carter
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Several years later, when Nick Carter was four, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida, near Tampa, and managed the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added to the family.
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Nick Carter later got him dance lessons in ballet, tap, and hip hop at Karl and DiMarco's School of Theatre and Dance when he was 10.
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Nick Carter performed in several commercials, talent shows, and the Florida State Fair.
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Nick Carter auditioned for several acting roles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and performed around Tampa Bay, Florida.
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Nick Carter did an educational video called Reach for a Book, a show called The Klub and performed at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers home games for two years.
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Nick Carter made a brief appearance in the 1990 Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands as a child playing on a Slip 'N Slide.
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Between 1989 and 1993, Nick Carter recorded various popular songs, including "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Uptown Girl" and a few original songs that he would perform at events.
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Nick Carter has stated that he endured a difficult childhood in a turbulent, high-conflict home.
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Nick Carter has added that he was bullied and beaten up during junior high school.
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At 12 years old, Nick Carter auditioned for Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club and the Backstreet Boys.
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Nick Carter was asked to join the group and was given the choice of either joining The Mickey Mouse Club with a $50,000 contract or this new music group.
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Nick Carter chose to go with the group rather than the Mickey Mouse Club.
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In 2002, when the Backstreet Boys expressed a strong desire to leave their management company, The Firm, Nick Carter was the first member of the group to choose to remain with them to manage his solo career and work on a solo album.
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Around then, Nick Carter started writing songs and recording during his downtime when Jive asked him to do a solo album.
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Nick Carter launched a worldwide tour in support of the album.
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Nick Carter was featured on the cover of the magazine.
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Nick Carter went on tour in early 2003, where he performed at smaller venues like clubs, much smaller venues than what he had been used to with Backstreet Boys.
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That same year, Nick Carter started working on his second solo album, which was put on hold when the Backstreet Boys returned to the studio to record a new album in 2004.
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Nick Carter started to work on the album in 2008, but most of the recording of his second solo album, "I'm Taking Off," took place during any downtime he had in between Backstreet Boys touring in 2010.
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Nick Carter co-wrote every song released except a bonus track in Japan.
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Nick Carter recorded a duet with pop singer Jennifer Paige called "Beautiful Lie" in 2009.
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In 2010, Nick Carter started recording new songs for his second solo album, working with Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk, Toby Gad, Josh Hoge, and Claude Kelly, among many others.
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In January 2014, Nick Carter recorded a duet album with Jordan Knight from fellow boy band New Kids on the Block.
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In 2015, Nick Carter announced he would be working on a third solo album for release later that year.
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Nick Carter worked with Dan Muckala, Natasha Bedingfield, and others for most of the album.
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In support of the album, Nick Carter toured in February and March 2016.
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Two months after Aaron's death, Nick Carter honored his little brother with a new single, Hurts To Love You, and the music video featured images of Aaron via photos and home movies.
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In July 2023, Nick Carter announced that he would embark on his first solo in almost a decade.
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Nick Carter did some acting, appearing on various TV shows, including the NBC show American Dreams in 2002 and ABC's 8 Simple Rules in 2003.
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In 2007, Nick Carter filmed the independent movie Kill Speed with Brandon Quinn, Andrew Keegan, Natalia Cigliuti, Greg Grunberg, and Reno Wilson, where he played a character named Foreman.
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Nick Carter made his big-screen debut in 2013, appearing in the comedy This Is the End along with the rest of the Backstreet Boys.
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Nick Carter directed another movie in 2012, but there has yet to be a word when that will be released.
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Nick Carter has said he'll use his money and the money raised to fund the movie.
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In October 2014, Nick Carter announced that this film would be postponed due to the director's death.
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Nick Carter hired the production company, the Asylum, to help.
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In July 2015, Nick Carter announced that the movie was renamed "Dead 7" to give it a more global appeal.
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At Comic-Con 2015 in San Diego, Nick Carter revealed his plans to film a movie he had written and would be directing and starring in.
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The series features all five Nick Carter siblings reuniting to live in the same house in Los Angeles to try to reconnect as a family and get their lives together, as well as in-depth moments of their ups and downs.
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In 2014, Carter returned to reality TV, and he and his wife, Lauren Kitt, starred in their VH1 reality show, I Heart Nick Carter, which centered around the planning of their April 2014 wedding and premiered on September 10,2014, on VH1.
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Nick Carter announced on Twitter that VH1 did not renew the show for a second season.
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Nick Carter performed "I Will Wait" off his All American album live at the finale.
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In June 2017, Nick Carter appeared alongside Emma Bunton and Timbaland as a judge on a new singing competition show called Boy Band.
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In 2020, Nick Carter competed as the "Crocodile" on the fourth season of The Masked Singer, finishing in third place.
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In 2002, Carter got into powerboat racing and started his own team, Nick Carter Racing, which won the National Championship in its first year.
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Nick Carter started the Oceans Campaign in 2001 to raise awareness about the ocean.
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Nick Carter was announced as the new United Nations Special Ambassador for the Year of the Dolphin on May 17,2007, representing the United Nations Environment Program, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
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Nick Carter is reported to have dated Debra Lafave, Willa Ford, and Paris Hilton.
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Nick Carter told People magazine that though he loves performing on tour, he had to miss his daughter's third birthday to go to Europe.
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In 2003 or 2004, Nick Carter got his first DUI after refusing to comply with the police.
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On March 5,2005, Nick Carter was arrested in Huntington Beach, California, and charged with one count of driving under the influence and one count of driving with a blood alcohol level above 0.08, the legal limit.
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Nick Carter pled guilty to the charges and was fined $1,200, placed on three years of informal probation, had his driving privileges restricted for 90 days and was required to undergo a three-month alcohol education program.
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In September 2019, Nick Carter was granted a temporary restraining order against his younger brother Aaron after alleging he threatened to kill his then-pregnant wife.
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On November 20, the judge made the decision the day after one of Nick Carter's sisters was granted a domestic violence restraining order, and Nick Carter's brother-in-law was granted a harassment restraining order until November 2020.
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On February 18,2022, in a class-action lawsuit filed against the cryptocurrency company SafeMoon that alleged the company is a pump and dump scheme, Nick Carter was named a defendant along with YouTuber and professional boxer Jake Paul, rappers Soulja Boy and Lil Yachty, and social media personality Ben Phillips for promoting the SafeMoon token on their social media accounts with misleading information.
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Nick Carter called the lawsuit a "press stunt" by Ruth's lawyers.
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Schuman said Nick Carter provided alcohol and slipped a roofie or a similar drug in her drink and that he took her virginity by force.
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Nick Carter stated that she refused them, telling them that she had a boyfriend and was "saving herself for marriage".
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The victim did not press charges, and Nick Carter refused to speak with investigators regarding the incident.
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Nick Carter allegedly provided the minor with drugs and alcohol and infected her with HPV.
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In March 2023, Las Vegas judge Nancy Allf ruled Nick Carter was allowed to countersue Ruth for libel.
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Allf told Ruth's legal team that she was denying their anti-SLAPP motion both because Ruth had not met her burden and because Nick Carter had met his to show sufficient evidence supporting his counterclaims.
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Nick Carter later countersued all three accusers for as high as $2.5 million.
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However, Nick Carter has since filed an appeal against her and will continue to sue Schuman and Ruth with the defamation lawsuit.
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Since Fallen Idols, Nick Carter has filed another lawsuit against Schuman, stating that her alleged lies and defamatory statements cost him and the band a seven-figure deal.
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Nick Carter has acknowledged ongoing struggles with drug and alcohol abuse.
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Nick Carter revealed that he started drinking when he was just two years old and again at nine.
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Nick Carter says that he became sober after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and realized that he could die if he did not make major lifestyle changes.
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Nick Carter appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on February 19,2009, to discuss his past with drug and alcohol addictions.
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In December 2011, Nick Carter again appeared on TV to talk about his struggle with drugs and alcohol, this time on The Dr Phil Show's "Second Chances" special.