True or False Nelly Furtado

• In addition to hosting, Nelly Furtado is up for a few Junos this year. True or False?

• Nelly Furtado was approached to pose on the cover of Playboy. True or False?

• Nelly’s daughter, Nevis , was named after an island. True or False?

• Nelly has been romantically involved with Steve Nash. True or False?

• Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado are both fans of Jeff Buckley. True or False?

• Nelly’s pre-show routine involves a tantric massage. True or False?

• Nelly Furtado is hotter than Jennifer Lopez. True or False?

• You might see Nelly Furtado on the silver screen someday soon. True or False?

• Following in JLo’s footsteps, Nelly is working on a Spanish album. True or False?

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In addition to hosting, Nelly Furtado is up for a few Junos this year.

True:

This year, Furtado has won a Brit Award and has been nominated for a Grammy and five Junos (she already owns five Junos).

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Nelly Furtado was approached to pose on the cover of Playboy.

True:

She declined Hugh Hefner’s offer to be on the cover of Playboy. “They wanted me to pose in clothes. I thought about doing it and giving the money to a women’s shelter, but my manager thought it could be used against me.” Mariah Carey, however, did pose for Playboy’s cover.

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Nelly’s daughter, Nevis, was named after an island.

False:

Furtado’s three-year-old daughter, Nevis (her father is Furtado’s former boyfriend – DJ Jasper Gahunia), was not named after the Caribbean Island upon which she was conceived. Nevis was named after the Latin word Nevi, which means “spinning or interweaving.”

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Nelly has been romantically involved with Steve Nash.

False:

Although the New York Post did write about it, she never dated the very-married Canadian MVP Phoenix Suns basketball player Steve Nash, about whom she sings in “Promiscuous.”

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Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado are both fans of Jeff Buckley.

True:

She and Justin Timberlake share a love…of Jeff Buckley. When Timberlake first played “SexyBack” to Furtado, she told him it sounded like Buckley. Nelly: “He was, like, ‘(Gasp) I named my dog Buckley! I love him!’ ” They are also both featured on Timbaland’s latest single, “Give It to Me.”

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Nelly’s pre-show routine involves a tantric massage.

False:

In Europe, a rumour was spreading via the British tabloids that Furtado loves getting tantric massages before each performance. “I wish I had the time,” she quips.

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Nelly Furtado is hotter than Jennifer Lopez.

True:

Furtado is the 48th hottest woman on the planet, as decided by the readers of popular lad site Askmen.com. She trumped the likes of JLo (75th) and Jennifer Aniston (76th)

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You might see Nelly Furtado on the silver screen someday soon .

True:

She is trying her hand at acting and has already appeared on CSI: NY, as a shoplifting murderer, and has done a cameo for the soap opera One Life to Live. She would also love to be in a Pedro Almodóvar film, as she feels a kinship with him: “He tells his stories from his homeland – which is what I have attempted to do with my music.”

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Following in JLo’s footsteps, Nelly is working on a Spanish album.

False:

Furtado is not recording a full-length Spanish album. She says, “It’s more like bonus material. I don’t have a concrete album yet.”

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