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Justin Timberlake<\/a> and <\/span>Travis Kelce<\/a> are just a couple of “busy” guys. The “Selfish” singer responded to recently being name-dropped by the Kansas City Chiefs tight end as the most famous person in his contacts list, saying that they do exchange messages on occasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “We text,” Timberlake said on Thursday’s episode of <\/span>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/span><\/em>. “I don’t want to bother him. He’s busy right now. He’s in the zone.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Amid Kelce’s high-profile romance with <\/span>Taylor Swift<\/a>, the athlete was <\/span>asked earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0to name the biggest celebrity whose number he has stored in his phone. After mulling the question over for a brief moment, the interviewer joked, “Don’t give us the easy answer, Trav.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “The easy answer, you guys know the easy answer,” Kelce said with a knowing smile, tilting his head to the side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “J.T.,\u00a0<\/span>Justin Timberlake<\/a>,” he added with a look and a point at the camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When asked whether Timberlake would pick up if Kelce called him at that moment, the NFL star had no hesitation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “No,” he said. “Not a chance.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Directing his remarks to Timberlake directly, Kelce added, “I appreciate you!” and explained\u00a0that the *NSYNC alum is “a busy man.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Timberlake and Kelce have notably hit the links together on numerous occasions, teaming up with <\/span>Jimmy Fallon<\/a> and <\/span>Patrick Mahomes<\/a>, respectively, to face off in celebrity golf tournaments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During Thursday’s show, Timberlake and Fallon recalled one memorable outing with the Chiefs players that saw the late-night host hitting an epic bunker shot — while the musician got a little too excited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I saw my life flash before my eyes,” Timberlake admitted, recalling the moment his body collided with Kelce’s in celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “He went up and did one of those, like, when they jump, and I was like, ‘He’s doing it, I have to do it!’ and I forgot that he weighs like 80 pounds more than me,” Timberlake said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the hilarious clip, Timberlake jumps up to bump shoulders with Kelce and is immediately slammed into the ground with his feet flying into the air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 42-year-old singer joked that their collision “might not look like much,” but his neck was stiff “for like a week” after.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Timberlake also dropped some big news during the show, announcing his upcoming Forget Tomorrow World Tour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier on Thursday, Timberlake <\/span>released his new single<\/a>, “Selfish,” off his forthcoming album,\u00a0<\/span>Everything I Thought It Was.<\/span><\/em> The star’s sixth solo LP is set for release on March 15 and marks his first since 2018’s<\/span> Man of the Woods.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n “Selfish” is set to get its first live televised performance this weekend,\u00a0<\/span>as Timberlake is the musical guest<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>, hosted by his\u00a0<\/span>The Social Network<\/span><\/em>\u00a0co-star, Dakota Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n