Summary by: Claudia Abate
Date Published: June 19, 2008
There are certain quirky things about me that I don't mind admitting, even though they may cause my cool factor to plummet to the depths of the earth. Things like my strange obsession with the original Degrassi series or my inability to do the double kiss on the cheek thing without creating an embarrassing situation (i.e. Going the wrong way and kissing the person on the mouth or bumping into the person's nose etc.- which actually happened yesterday). There is one last embarrassing thing that I will now share with you, dear readers.

This weekend CTV held the MMVAs show and I found myself trying to talk myself out of getting out of my cheeto stained track pants and into a cute little party dress... that is until I found out that a certain pop group would be making a comeback on the very stage that I was avoiding going anywhere near. Being around 12 million screaming 13 year olds is not my idea of fun, I could already see myself storming through the crowd of screaming girls, snapping and performing an ultimate fighting move on a child... but back to the matter at hand. It was announced that the New "Kids" on the Block would be performing at the event and in an effort to satisfy the fat little eight year old in me, I made a deal with myself that I would skip the show, crash the party and get a photo with the guys to add to my collection. There, I said it. I was/am obsessed with the NKOTB and was always jealous of my friend Jessica's bed sheets when we were kids. Relax, Judge Judy, you know you love(d) them too.

Anyways, I picked up a dress off the floor of my room, smoothed down my hair and hopped on the subway down to work. I walked by the stage just in time to see this. I was speechless. My world came crumbling down. They were neither "new" nor "kids" in fact and I'm afraid, as Katy Perry would say, "they're so gay and they don't even like boys..." Nevertheless, they were totally nice and really quite funny - I think even completely aware of how ludicrous the concept of a NKOTB comeback is.

Long story short, I walked up to the lounge and snapped these pics. Don't hate, appreciate.




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