Christina Aguilera was just 13 years old when she joined Disney’s The All-New Mickey Mouse Club alongside fellow A-list celebs Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, and Justin Timberlake. For the most part, the trio remained in close contact after the show concluded, but once their solo careers were in full effect in their early adult years, some of their relationships changed along the way.

While Britney eventually started dating Justin, when their romance began to fall apart, it was Christina who was booked to go on tour with the “Sexy Back” singer. Reports at the time even claimed that when Brit was out of the picture, JT and Xtina shared a brief fling, though neither one of them has ever confirmed or denied those allegations.

So, while they starred on the same TV show, remained friends in their early 20s, and went on a nationwide tour, are Justin and Christina still close to this day?

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While it’s unclear as to how close Christina and Justin were during their days on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, at the start of their solo careers, the two were paired together to helm The Justified & Stripped Tour in 2003.

The 45-date nationwide concert trek was in support of Justin’s album, Justified, and Christina’s fourth album, Stripped.

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To nobody’s surprise, the tour, which ran between June 2003 and September 2003, was a success, pulling in $30 million at the box office.

At that point, both stars already had a handful of hits under their name including Cry Me A River, Senorita, Like I Love You, Can’t Hold Us Down, Fighter, and Dirrty. The tour was supported by The Black Eyed Peas.

Christina also admitted to having once shared a big crush on Justin while working with him on Disney, which she recalled during an interview on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live.

“There were definitely crushes, but … I wasn’t on the train,” she laughed. “Even back then, he had swag. There was me and Britney — well now, you know — there was a thing back then.”

During their time on the road together, rumors were floating around that Xtina and Justin were quietly seeing one another — though many fans didn’t believe it, convinced that the press was trying to pit the “Genie In The Bottle” hitmaker against Britney, Christina’s behavior towards her former co-star was definitely questionable at the time.

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At the 2003 VMAs, for example, the mother of two graced the stage with Britney and Madonna to perform a medley of the latter’s hits, but in an interview with Blender magazine shortly after gracing the stage in their racy outfits, Christina had some things to get off her chest.

"Every time I tried to start a conversation with her — well, let's just say she seemed nervous the whole time,” Xtina gushed. "She seems to me like a lost little girl, someone who desperately needs guidance.”

With those comments in mind, it’s not hard to believe that Christina may have dated Justin, and the reason why she was said to have been not-so-nice to Britney was probably over the things he told her about his breakup with the Someday vocalist.

In August 2018, however, Xitna cleared the air and claimed it was the media who had made it seem there was a rivalry between her and Britney.

"It's hard to hear yourself being called names. I remember being hurt by these commercials on MTV, pitting Britney as the good girl and me as the bad girl. It's like, if I'm going to be demure and innocent, that's okay,” she told Cosmopolitan.

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“But if I'm going to just be myself, I'm trouble.”

There haven’t been any photos of Justin and Christina together in well over 15 years, so it’s arguable that they’re even still friends at this point.

Fans probably saw them the most between 2002 and 2003, during which they released very successful albums and toured together, so one could also assume that the dating rumors between them were nothing more but a PR stunt.

What is clear, however, is that Christina doesn’t appear to be close to Justin, nor does she have a good relationship with Britney.

Over the years, all of the former cast members of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club would find their own way in the entertainment industry — and one also shouldn’t forget that even though they all starred on Disney’s show, Britney, Justin, Ryan, and Christina only worked on a handful of episodes together.

So it wasn’t like they were besties in their teens and simply lost touch in their adult years. They were never really that close, to begin with.

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