Did Target really pay K-Fed "a ton of money" to be in their commercial?

In a recent People magazine there was a screen shot of K-Fed in an old Target commercial. He was just one of the background dancers in a fake wedding scene, and he was one of the guys holding a plunger (yep, like to unclog toilets with) for the newlyweds to walk under. In the caption he said that Target had to "talk him into doing" the ad, and that they paid him "a bunch of money." But wasn't this back before he was Mr. Spears? If he'd done this after Britney, wouldn't we have known about it? Who thinks he's lying, and that he really was in the ad just like every other person trying to break into show-biz and was probably ecstatic to get a job?