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Britney Spears Once Played Matchmaker for Taylor Lautner and Her Sister

“We did not go out,” remembers the actor.
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Britney Spears, on top of her many accolades and achievements, is a good big sister. While John Stamos and Taylor Lautner were at the iHeartRadio Music Festival this weekend, Stamos let slip a little anecdote about Spears’s charitable sisterly moves. A few years back, the pop star, who was at the festival as a headliner, tried to set up her younger sister, Jamie Lynn, once of Zoey 101 fame, with Lautner. The Scream Queens co-stars chatted backstage with Billboard about that moment in time.

“Britney tried to fix Taylor up with her sister one time,” Stamos said, clearly in ultimate embarrassing Uncle Jesse mode.

“A long time ago,” Lautner quickly chimed in.

“I don’t think they went out,” Stamos said, drawing out the topic.

“We did not go out,” Lautner said, reiterating.

It’s been a while since Jamie Lynn has been in the media spotlight. For years, she focused on raising daughter Maddie, with whom she got pregnant with in 2007, while still filming her Nickelodeon show. In 2013, she came back into the public eye when she began pursuing a career in country music. In 2014, she married husband Jamie Watson, a businessman. The two started dating in 2010 after Jamie Lynn split from her ex-fiancé Casey Aldridge.

Needless to say, Taylor Lautner is not part of Jamie Lynn Spears’s romantic history. Our Twilight-Zoey 101 crossover fanfic is all that’s left of what might have been.