I just want to wish a great day to AJ McLean. Have a nice one with your family and friends and enjoy your life!!

Happy Birthday!

A.J. McLean is officially a married man. The singer tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Rochelle Karidis, Saturday in Los Angeles, according to reports.

Attended by fellow Backstreet Boys Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough and Nick Carter, the evening ceremony was held at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel.

Saturday’s nuptials were a long time coming for the pair, who postponed saying “I do” when McLean checked into rehab for the third time earlier this year.

The singer, who proposed to his girlfriend on his 32nd birthday in January 2010, credits his new bride with encouraging his sobriety then and now.

“I really miss and love [Rochelle]. You are my whole world and I cannot wait to spend my life with you,” he recently tweeted, linking to her handle.

“Without you here, I am lost!”

Congratulations, you guys. [Source]

A.J. McLean attends Perez Hilton’s 2011 “One Night In Los Angeles” Concert Series at The Wiltern on August 27, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. You can go to the gallery to take a look and enjoy!

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– Perez Hilton’s 2011 “One Night In Los Angeles” Concert Series

After a short stint in rehab for substance abuse, Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean (33) is saying goodbye to the single life and getting hitched to his longtime girlfriend, Rochelle Deanna Karidis (30).

According to the Toronto Sun, the couple pushed their wedding date from May ’10 to next December (2011) after A.J. checked into a rehab center for about a month. But this isn’t the singer’s first bout with drugs — back in 2001 and 2002 McLean was treated for cocaine and alcohol abuse.

And as A.J. writes on his Twitter, it was Rochelle that helped him through the whole process.

The Toronto Sun also reports that the now-sober boy-bandier and Karidis plan to marry December 17 in Beverly Hills, Calif. with famous photographer Tyler Shields officiating.

“I’ll tell you that my fiancée is wearing a black dress, I am wearing a white suit, the theme is Moulin Rouge,” A.J. gushed to OK! Magazine last year. “I have got some other friends of mine who may perform and do our first dance.” McClean also confessed that he ‘Wants It That Way’ and is a true “groomzilla.” Be that as it may, we’re sure the couple have a promising future. Cheers! [Source]

I added some new photos of AJ McLean to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look.

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– June 18th, 2011

More than 15 years after their first single, the two boy bands have joined forces

Hard as it is to believe, it’s been a whopping 26 years since the New Kids on the Block released their first single. For the Backstreet Boys, it’s been 16.

New Kid Donnie Wahlberg was a spry 17 back then; so was the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean.

A lot has happened since then. They’ve grown up, for one.

“Some of the New Kids have kids of their own,” McLean said.

Wahlberg and McLean are even members of the same country club in California. Along the way, McLean checked in and out of rehab, and Jonathan Knight came out of the closet. They’ve gone from being the most popular boy group in the country to being has-beens and, eventually, nostalgia acts.

While demand for a comeback concert by just one of the groups might not have materialized, combined, they’ve engineered an unlikely return to the arenas that they could fill effortlessly during each others’ heydays. Read full article.