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At last! Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears reunited!

Britney and Justin are rekindling their relationship for the best comeback ever...

Ex-lovers Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake are reuniting after 6 years and three weeks apart. (Yes, we've been counting!)

The pair have hardly said a word to each other since their acrimonious split in 2002. But Justin, 27, and his producer Timbaland approached Britney's dad Jamie last month about a collaboration on a funky hip-hop single to be released later this year.

Timbaland, 27, tried in March last year for a reunion, but the mum-of-two, 26, was so off the rails that she snubbed the approach.

'She has to have a team. She needs to come back with Justin doing records,' he said later. 'Instead, she got big-headed and was like: "Screw you, screw you, I don't need nobody."'

But Timbaland's now willing to forgive and forget. If all goes well, he'll start work on the backing track within weeks while Justin and Britney spend time together writing the lyrics.

'Justin wants to help Britney and this is his way of proving to everyone – including her family, who he was always very close to – that he cares,' a family friend tells Now.

Britney's affairs are being controlled by her dad, who's signed up her ex-manager Larry Rudolph to oversee her career – and he's just as keen to see the reunion happen. The only sticking point is keeping Britney on the straight and narrow for long enough – she's still harbouring a lot of anger about Justin releasing Cry Me A River, which is widely assumed to be about her cheating on him.

How did the fairytale romance between Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake originally end?

Britney and Justin were childhood sweethearts who met as innocent 11-year-olds on the set of The Mickey Mouse Club.

In 1998, the pair became an item and it seemed like the perfect match. Britney declared that she would 'remain a virgin until marriage'.

Their relationship turned sour 4 years later amid allegations that Britney had been cheating on Justin.

Nine months after the split Justin released the single Cry Me A River, which featured a Britney lookalike in the video.

See the full story in Now magazine - out now!