*NSYNC’s Joey Fatone, Lance Bass Detail Long Friendship

“Look, the door is always open,” Bass told E! News in November 2023. “Especially now, I’m game and we will be talking at some point. So hopefully, fingers crossed, something will work out.” 

Meanwhile, Fatone—dad to daughters Briahna, 25, and Khloey, 16, with ex Kelly Baldwin—knows that life has a lot more strings attached nowadays. (For his part, Bass shares 4-year-old twins Alexander and Violet with Turchin.)

“It’s weird because again, like back in the day when we were younger, nobody was married, nobody had kids, but as we got older, we’re married, we have kids,” he reflected to E! in June 2024. “It takes a different perspective.”

Although a reunion would look different now, Fatone is down to make it happen somewhere, someday.

“Everybody’s older, everybody has different personalities now,” he added. “How do we deal with that? I’m not saying that it’s bad. It’s just a matter of making it cohesive.” 

While Bass and Fatone pop bottles in Cocktail Wars Tuesday, Aug. 18, at 10 p.m. on E!, keep reading for more TV premieres.