Timberlake To The Rescue

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Justin Timberlake. Utterly implausible as it may sound, the bumfluffed popster has said he turned down the chance to star as the Man of Steel in the upcoming Superman film. What? Why so surprised? The shaven head, the diamond ear studs - isn't that what Superman's supposed to look like? It was bad enough when George Lucas thought of putting the N-SYNC crew in Episode II but the thought of having Timberlake in the starring role of one of 2006's hottest properties is enough to turn the pope to atheism. Luckily though we don't believe a word of it and, despite the singer's comments to The Sun, we suspect someone's been pulling his leg. "I told them, 'Whatever you're smoking, dude, I don't want any of it. It's just not me." Amen to that.