The 4 members of 98 Levels — Nick Lachey, Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons and Justin Jeffre — turned the tables on Us and took over interview duties in the course of their Us Weekly cowl shoot.
“ Are you able to recall your most embarrassing second on stage?” Jeffre, 50, requested his bandmate Timmons, who instantly pulled from an extended checklist of relevant experiences.
“There’s lots of ‘em,” Timmons, 50, mentioned with fun. “In all probability Jerry Rice might be essentially the most embarrassing one. So, Jerry Rice is a professional soccer participant that I love. … We have been doing this United Method collaboration with all these acts [and] Jerry Rice is standing behind me on the next riser and Nick is subsequent to me. I’m like, ‘Oh man, Jerry Rice.’ And he’s like, ‘Simply be cool. Don’t do it.’ And I rotated to shake Jerry Rice’s hand and our risers are about most likely six ft off the bottom. And I stepped within the gap and fell down between the risers and smacked my arm on the best way down in entrance of all these those who I idolized. Everyone was silent to see if I used to be nonetheless alive.”
He continued: “And [like] Clark Griswold [from National Lampoon’s Vacation], I jumped up, I’m like, ‘I’m OK.’ After which the entire place erupted in laughter and I attempted to cover behind Nick and he moved away as a result of he didn’t need to act like he was within the group.”
Timmons, who was “getting crimson now” relieving the encounter, added that second was “most likely essentially the most” embarrassing he skilled throughout his time within the band.
Nick Lachey, Justin Jeffre, Drew Lachey, and Jeff Timmons Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Photographs
Subsequent up, it was Drew’s time to ask a query and he made a degree to ask his buddies about their collective “unlucky” hairstyles. “I imply the ‘yellow thorn’ was one in every of them, definitely. However I had the frosted suggestions,” Drew, 47, mentioned. “What did you guys really actually consider the frosted suggestions?”
Timmons shortly chimed in that the frosted suggestions seemed higher on Drew than they did on his older brother, Nick, now 49. “The ‘yellow thorn’ is only one thorn, [just] one factor, [but] the guidelines,” Timmons mentioned, trailing off.
Justin Jeffre, Nick Lachey, Drew Lachey and Jeff Timmons of 98 Levels Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Nick notably had a “yellow thorn” hairdo through the group’s heyday, during which simply the entrance of his hair was dyed blonde.
“Yeah, however they needed to strip [mine] down so dangerous,” Drew identified. “That was a complete questionable period with frosted suggestions and hair dyeing and stripping.”
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Jeffre and Nick felt good concerning the dyed ‘dos. “Platinum was good. [Jeff] rocked the platinum quick hair,” the Love Is Blind host chimed in. “That was search for you. Deliver it again, man.”
Watch 98 Levels’ full interview above to get extra particulars about which fellow boy bander they’d recruit to affix, who would choose up a cellphone name instantly and extra.
