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• Is the youngest of nine children, as well as the youngest member of the boy band New Kids on the Block.
• Performed in community theater as a child. 
• Was recruited to join New Kids on the Block and replace original member Jamie Kelly, who exited the group before they got famous.
• Recorded his debut solo album, Stay the Same, in 1998.
• Met his wife while she was working as a real-estate agent—he was her first client.
• Competed on the first season of Dancing With the Stars in 2005.
• Ran the Boston Marathon in 2013, the year a bomb exploded at the event, and returned the following year to run it again. 
• Is an advocate for several medical causes, including hearing problems (he's the father of a hearing-impaired son) and Alzheimer's (his mother has the disease).