*NSYNC’s Lance Bass Says CW Cancelled His Sitcom Pilot After He Came Out

On a recent appearance on the Politickin podcast, Lance Bass revealed that after he came out as gay in 2006, creative opportunities that were once available to him started to be taken away. Bass was in talks at the time to film a pilot episode of a new sitcom for the CW, but once the former *NSYNC singer announced he was gay, the network scrapped their plans for the show. “They were like, ‘We can’t do the show anymore. They have to believe that you’re straight to play a straight character,’” Bass said. That prejudicial treatment shocked Bass, who only knew the runaway success of his boy band career. “I was confused for sure. I was such a young person. And all I knew was NSYNC,” Bass recalled. “When we decided that the group was no longer, it was very confusing for me because I didn’t know where I belonged. It took awhile to figure out who I was and where I needed to go.” (Rolling Stone)