Former 'NSYNC member Lance Bass popped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote his memoir Out of Sync (opening sentence: "I've known I was different ever since I was five years old. For one thing, I had what I guess you could call innocent crushes on boys."). He relayed, for an extremely gay-curious Kimmel, the story of how he came out to Britney Spears back in 2004:

He did it to cheer up his despondent friend, who had just undergone all the highs and lows of a tumultuous marriage and subsequent divorce in the greatly compressed time frame of 24 hours. Sadly, the disclosure, despite being truly fabulous, only further confused Spears, leading the singer to start questioning whether she too might be a gay man. After that anecdote, the infamous People cover makes an appearance, followed by Kimmel's own—an issue that somehow slipped our radar, but that probably would have better prepared us for the Matt Damon-cuckolded talk show host's shocking revenge ditty, "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck."