Christina Aguilera appeared to dodge a question about her being mentioned in Britney Spears’ upcoming memoir The Woman In Me during Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The pop icons have a long and complicated history together, as the former Mickey Mouse Club stars began their careers alongside each other in the early 1990s and soared to fame while constantly being pitted against one another.
As the highly-anticipate tome covers much of Britney’s life – including the bombshell about her abortion with Justin Timberlake and that he allegedly cheated on her with a mystery celebrity- it’s likely Christina will also make it to the pages, and host Jimmy Kimmel inquired about the possibility.
‘Do you think you will be in it?’ Jimmy wondered. ‘Has she called you and said, “hey, heads up?”‘
‘Dude, I don’t know. I don’t know,’ Christina said, laughing off the question and giving Jimmy a bit of a side-eye, as he followed up, ‘Are you hoping that you’re in it?’
Getting grilled: Christina Aguilera appeared to dodge a question about her being mentioned in Britney Spears ‘ upcoming memoir The Woman In Me during Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live
History: The pop icons have a long and complicated history together, as the former Mickey Mouse Club stars began their careers alongside each other in the early 1990s and soared to fame while constantly being pitted against one another
Possibility: As the highly-anticipate tome covers much of Britney’s life — including the bombshell about her abortion with Justin Timberlake — it’s likely Christina will make it in the pages… and host Jimmy Kimmel inquired about the possibility
Christina added a few more laughs before cryptically saying, ‘Am I hoping? I’m hoping that everything is all good with her. Everything’s beautiful. The future should be celebrated.’
However, Jimmy continued to prod about the Dirrty hitmaker being discussed in Britney’s book, due to be released Oct. 24.
‘If you had to choose between being in it and not being in it,’ Jimmy asked.
‘I mean, for real? For real?,’ Christina replied. to which Jimmy chimed in, ‘For real, because I would like to be in it’.
Christina settled on: ‘Maybe you will be in it. Listen, I’d rather it be you than me. So hopefully you’ll be in it. You’ll make the book.’
The Latin Grammy winner and the ‘Toxic’ hitmaker have had a manufactured pop diva rivalry since the beginning of their careers.
They appeared to squash it on their own, however, and as early as 2003, when they appeared on stage together and kissed Madonna at the 2003 VMAs.
Christina also voiced her support for Britney amid the singer’s long battle over her conservatorship, which ended in November 2021.
Considering the question: ‘Dude, I don’t know. I don’t know,’ Christina said, laughing off the question and giving Jimmy a bit of a side-eye, as he followed up, ‘Are you hoping that you’re in it?’
Diplomatic: Christina added a few more laughs before saying, ‘Am I hoping? I’m hoping that everything is all good with her. Everything’s beautiful. The future should be celebrated’
Child stars: The former Mickey Mouse Club stars began their careers alongside each other
Rivalry: They appeared to squash the rivalry on their own, however, as early as the their respective kisses with Madonna at the 2003 VMAs
‘We’ve been working since we were little kids. We all deserve some happiness. I’ll always be supportive of Britney,’ Christina told The Los Angeles Times in July 2021.
The statement came just a month after Britney’s testimony in court about the conservatorship’s damaging effects.
Meanwhile, The Woman In Me has been making headlines with it’s bombshell-filled excerpts.
One included the ‘Piece of Me’ singer’s revelation that she had an abortion while dating ‘NSYNC frontman Justin because they ‘weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives’ and ‘were way too young’.
The pair dated between 1999 and 2002.
