Britney Spears; Michelle Williams.Photo:Allen Berezovsky/WireImage; Arturo Holmes/Getty
Allen Berezovsky/WireImage; Arturo Holmes/Getty
Britney Spears’The Woman in Mecould very well helpMichelle Williamsinch closer to EGOT status.
The 41-year-old “Toxic” singer’s bombshell memoir was released Tuesday, andWilliams, 43, narrates the audiobook version, which makes her eligible for a Grammy Award nomination — and fans are already hoping she wins.
Britney Spears' The Woman in Me.
In the audiobook, Spears provides a spoken-word introduction before Williams reads the rest. It’s unclear if Spears would also be eligible to win a Grammy for her contribution.
“Give Michelle Williams a Grammy, she did such a good job with the Britney Memoir,” wrote another fan.
Michelle Williams in January 2023.Frazer Harrison/WireImage
TheBrokeback Mountainstar — who currently has an Emmy but will need a Grammy, Oscar and Tony to reach EGOT status — alsowent viral earlier this week for her reading of a passagewhere Spears writes about watchingJustin Timberlaketry to impress Ginuwine in New York City sometime in the early 2000s.
In the process of narrating the chapter, Williams did an impression of Timberlake that left fans buzzing.
“His band *NSYNC was back then what people called ‘so pimp.’ They were white boys but they loved hip-hop. To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group,” Spears wrote. “*NSYNC hung out with Black artists. Sometimes I thought they tried too hard to fit in."
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in Los Angeles in 2002.Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage
Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage
“J got all excited and said so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo’ shiz fo’ shiz, Ginuwine, what’s up homie?’ After Ginuwine walked away, Felicia [Spears' assistant] did an impression of J … J wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like,‘OK, f— you Fe.’”
Britney Spears performs in Las Vegas in June 2016.Marco Piraccini\Archivio Marco Piraccini\Mondadori via Getty
Marco Piraccini\Archivio Marco Piraccini\Mondadori via Getty
“This book has been a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it,” said Spears at the time. “Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least. For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook.”
Spears adds, “I am so grateful to the amazing Michelle Williams for reading the rest of it.”
“I stand with Britney,” Williams said in a statement of her support for the Grammy-winning singer.
source: people.com
