Furor Over Timberlake-Biel Wedding Video Mocking Homeless, Trans People
BY Nazly Siadate
October 25 2012 5:55 PM ET
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/10/25/furor-over-timberlake-biel-wedding-video-mocking-homeless-and-trans (http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/10/25/furor-over-timberlake-biel-wedding-video-mocking-homeless-and-trans)
Congratulations to newlyweds Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel — from your friends on Skid Row?
Apparently everyone is sending the happy couple warm wishes on their recent nuptials, even their homeless and transgender friends found on the streets of Los Angeles. Gawker obtained a video made by one of Timberlake's closest friends, L.A. real estate agent Justin Huchel, who debuted his directorial skills with an effort that was supposed to be funny but instead came off as strange, sad, and mean-spirited. Reaction was swift and mostly angry on social media.
The video, now removed from Gawker due to litigation threats from Huchel's legal representation, depicts toothless, shirtless street people sending their love to Timberlake and Biel. One transgender woman jokingly warns Biel to keep a close eye on her husband.
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Justin Timberlake Writes Public Letter Apologizing for Wedding Video
BY Lucas Grindley
October 28 2012 10:09 AM ET
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/10/28/justin-timberlake-writes-public-letter-apologizing-wedding-video (http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/10/28/justin-timberlake-writes-public-letter-apologizing-wedding-video)
Justin Timberlake issued a public apology for a video that seemed to mock homeless and transgender people and that was said to have been played during his wedding — while clearing up a few facts.
First, the video was never shown during his wedding, he said, and neither he nor new wife Jessica Biel knew anything about the video. "I had no knowledge of its existence," Timberlake wrote in an open letter online. "I had absolutely ZERO contribution to it."