AJ McLean
is preemptively warning any boy who plans to date his daughters.
The
Backstreet Boys
singer appeared
on a recent episode
of
Trisha Paytas
‘ podcast
Just Trish
where he shared his disbelief that his youngest daughter seemingly is already interested in boys and even has a boyfriend. McLean shares daughters
Elliott
, 12, and
Lyric
, 7, with estranged wife
Rochelle
, per
People
.
“My youngest apparently has a boyfriend. I’m like, ‘No. You don’t.’ She doesn’t. And then one of her other girlfriends is dating the same boy,” he said. “I’m like, ‘What is wrong with you guys?’ Like, no.”
The
Building the Band
host
, 47, also explained that he has a message for daughters’ future boyfriends, telling Paytas that he has passed on “the best advice”
to his oldest daughter
that he got from fellow father and
*NSYNC member
Joey Fatone
.
“So I told my oldest, I said, ‘When you do go on your first official date, whether it’s to the movies or it’s the mall, and the boy comes to pick you up as he should, I want you to say these exact words to him before you leave my house,'” he said. “I said, ‘You need to tell him to his face, whatever you do to me, my dad’s gonna do to you.’ Simple as that. And hopefully, put the fear of God in him.”
McLean suggested his heavily-tattooed appearance could play in his favor, though only to an extent.
“Because I thought in the back of my mind, I could tell that little boy, like, ‘Hey. See all these tattoos? I got these in prison,'” he said. “But all he has to do is Google me and be like, ‘
You’re in a boy band
. You never went to prison.’ Like, damn it. You’re right. I didn’t.”
