TORONTO (CP) -- Are the members of Sugar Jones hungry? If they are, 'N Sync's J.C. Chasez extends an invitation to the Canadian pop group to come tour.

"If they want to come, by all means all they have to do is call us," he said in a recent interview. "We're cool like that because we know what it's like to want to get a start."

Not surprisingly, Sugar Jones singer Mirella Dell'Aquila, said the group was happy to hear such a statement coming from one of the world's hottest pop groups.

"I am so flattered to hear that J.C. heard our song and likes it," Dell'Aquila said Wednesday.

"I am a huge 'N Sync fan and actually got to meet him when we were recording at Metalworks this past winter. This is the first we're hearing of his invitation to tour with them. We all would be thrilled and very thankful for an opportunity like that. We love that they still care about up and coming acts like us."

Chasez is aware of Sugar Jones because 'N Sync spent time at the Metalworks studio in nearby Mississauga recording some of its latest album, Celebrity. Sugar Jones, the group whose making was chronicled on the reality-based television show Popstars, was laying down tracks for its self-titled debut at Metalworks.

"They didn't have a name at that point, but they were actually recording the song that they released, so I knew the song already," Chasez recounted during a recent visit to Toronto to promote Celebrity.

"I saw (the video) on TV and I was like, 'Oh my God, I heard that song a thousand times when I was here last time,'" says Chasez, who starts singing the lyric "Do you remember when days were like that" with an affected effeminate voice.

"It's pretty cool," he says of the song Days Like That, which went top 10 on CHR radio in Canada. "It's on the mellow tip. It's an easy listen."

'N Sync always helps out up-and-comers by bringing them out on tour and Chasez says Sugar Jones is more than welcome.

"Janet Jackson really gave us our big break in the States. She let us open up for her and that was a big part of us getting out in front of the public and we appreciated it. And now, whenever we see somebody up and coming, if you show us that you're hungry, you're definitely coming on our tour, but you definitely have to be hungry." (More on: Sugar Jones & Popstars).