NEW YORK \u2014 Backstreet Boy AJ McClean will soon swap Las Vegas living for New York City in support of his dancer daughters, he announced at a recent show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m about to become a resident of your beautiful city,\u201d he told a crowd of captivated A-listers who had just rocked out with the 30-year-old boy band at Uber\u2019s World Cup kickoff party on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth my daughters do competitive dance. And they\u2019ve got into a pretty awesome dance school here,\u201d he explained<\/a>. \u201cSo Daddy will always follow my daughters wherever they want to go to follow their dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n Though the singer, actor and director has called Las Vegas home for the past few years, he has teased a New York move before. In 2022 McLean let slip that Broadway was \u201cNo. 1 on my bucket list<\/a>\u201d and said he planned to move to NYC to pursue that dream.<\/p>\n He mentioned his daughters\u2019 dance dedication back then, too, telling People the move would enable them to attend \u201creally awesome dance schools<\/a> in New York,\u201d and noting, \u201cThey\u2019re both mini-me\u2019s. They love to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n McLean, too, studied dance as a child<\/a>, according to \u201cBackstreet Mom<\/a>: A Mother\u2019s Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean\u2019s Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction<\/a>, and Ultimate Triumph,\u201d the 2003 memoir penned by his mother, Denise I. McLean.<\/p>\n In May, 2024, McLean snared a snippet of Broadway stage time, joining the cast of \u201c& Juliet\u201d to lead an audience-wide surprise post-show singalong<\/a>.<\/p>\n McLean is no stranger to going personal onstage. Back in 2010 he proposed to then-girlfriend Rochelle Deanna Karidis<\/a> from the stage of the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel\u2019s Wasted Space nightclub<\/a> during his 32nd-birthday celebration, according to IMDb.<\/p>\n Karidis said yes, and they wed the following year<\/a>, but separated in 2024<\/a>. Their two daughters, 13-year-old Elliott and 9-year-old Lyric, are still the glue holding the estranged parents together.<\/p>\n