Justin Timberlake Marine Corps Ball : Looks like they'd a ball -- or, as he tells it, the event "turned out to be probably the most moving evenings That i have ever had."
Last summer, Justin Timberlake accepted a servicewoman's invitation to attend the Instructor Battalion Marine Corps Ball, and Saturday he made good on that promise.
"What I did not know was how moved I would be by the whole experience," Timberlake, 30, posted afterwards on his website.
The singer-actor was combat instructor Kelsey De Santis's date to Saturday's dance at the Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Va.
Of times the two spent together, Timberlake wrote, "She seemed to me to become so humble and honest... Cool. She also simultaneously appeared like she was nervous about the whole evening and when I had been likely to enjoy myself. 'Are you ok?' she asked Two or three times. "I hope you are having fun. I understand you'll once my crew of friends arrive here to the table.' "
He went on to express, "I need to let you know, it's not every day that I meet a 23 years old girl and she's more worried about if I'm having a good time or maybe I'm comfortable! It hit me all of a sudden these were the type of people who look after us and our freedom... Humble, concerned for other people before themselves... This was the kind of person our Marine Corps was building. I had been really blown away."
Timberlake had been wooed towards the ball via video, when his Marine, a champion mixed martial artist in her own off-time, made her plea online. "So, Justin," she said in her own online invite. "I'm going to call you out and ask you to arrived at the Marine Corps ball with me on Nov. 12. ... And when you can't go, all I have to have to say is, cry me a river."
Luckily, she had nothing to cry about.
As Timberlake wrote, "I felt so proud to become there. I felt like I was getting a opportunity to be among my heroes. It's funny too just because a lot of them are SO younger than me." Justin Timberlake.
Singer-turned-actor fulfilled his promise to escort a U.S. Marine who invited him via YouTube
Justin Timberlake promised Kelsey de Santis he’d be her date in the Marine Corps ball - and he turned out to be a man of his word.
The sexy singer/actor was on the arm of the Marine corporal who asked him to become her date inside a YouTube video in July.
Timberlake was snapped by a fellow partygoer looking dapper - along with a little shellshocked - in evening wear at the Richmond, Va., event, seated in a table encompassed by Marines in uniform.
The wife of one from the Marines at the ball said Timberlake “posed for pictures and appeared like an ordinary guy,” according to WTVR.
De Santis, whose sassy YouTube invite was inspired by Timberlake’s encouragement of costar Mila Kunis to accept a Marine’s invite to some similar ball, talked tough before the event, telling reporters she planned to challenge Timberlake to a dance-off.
“My friends keep saying, ‘Dance-off!’ They know about my skills,” she told Access Hollywood.”
De Santis left the doorway open for things to heat up with the “Sexy Back” singer off the dance floor, within an interview prior to the event.
“Of course, I’m single!” she said. “I don’t know [if a kiss will happen\]. I suppose that’s all as much as JT and what his plans are.”
Kunis is still planning to attend the Marine Corps ball she was invited to, slated for Nov. 18.
Last summer, Justin Timberlake accepted a servicewoman's invitation to attend the Instructor Battalion Marine Corps Ball, and Saturday he made good on that promise.
"What I did not know was how moved I would be by the whole experience," Timberlake, 30, posted afterwards on his website.
The singer-actor was combat instructor Kelsey De Santis's date to Saturday's dance at the Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Va.
Of times the two spent together, Timberlake wrote, "She seemed to me to become so humble and honest... Cool. She also simultaneously appeared like she was nervous about the whole evening and when I had been likely to enjoy myself. 'Are you ok?' she asked Two or three times. "I hope you are having fun. I understand you'll once my crew of friends arrive here to the table.' "
He went on to express, "I need to let you know, it's not every day that I meet a 23 years old girl and she's more worried about if I'm having a good time or maybe I'm comfortable! It hit me all of a sudden these were the type of people who look after us and our freedom... Humble, concerned for other people before themselves... This was the kind of person our Marine Corps was building. I had been really blown away."
Timberlake had been wooed towards the ball via video, when his Marine, a champion mixed martial artist in her own off-time, made her plea online. "So, Justin," she said in her own online invite. "I'm going to call you out and ask you to arrived at the Marine Corps ball with me on Nov. 12. ... And when you can't go, all I have to have to say is, cry me a river."
Luckily, she had nothing to cry about.
As Timberlake wrote, "I felt so proud to become there. I felt like I was getting a opportunity to be among my heroes. It's funny too just because a lot of them are SO younger than me." Justin Timberlake.
Singer-turned-actor fulfilled his promise to escort a U.S. Marine who invited him via YouTube
Justin Timberlake promised Kelsey de Santis he’d be her date in the Marine Corps ball - and he turned out to be a man of his word.
The sexy singer/actor was on the arm of the Marine corporal who asked him to become her date inside a YouTube video in July.
Timberlake was snapped by a fellow partygoer looking dapper - along with a little shellshocked - in evening wear at the Richmond, Va., event, seated in a table encompassed by Marines in uniform.
The wife of one from the Marines at the ball said Timberlake “posed for pictures and appeared like an ordinary guy,” according to WTVR.
De Santis, whose sassy YouTube invite was inspired by Timberlake’s encouragement of costar Mila Kunis to accept a Marine’s invite to some similar ball, talked tough before the event, telling reporters she planned to challenge Timberlake to a dance-off.
“My friends keep saying, ‘Dance-off!’ They know about my skills,” she told Access Hollywood.”
De Santis left the doorway open for things to heat up with the “Sexy Back” singer off the dance floor, within an interview prior to the event.
“Of course, I’m single!” she said. “I don’t know [if a kiss will happen\]. I suppose that’s all as much as JT and what his plans are.”
Kunis is still planning to attend the Marine Corps ball she was invited to, slated for Nov. 18.