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Brown Hawks TV Reality Show With Houston submitted by: Lisa D. source: Associated Press, Atlanta Journal and Constitution Date: April 2, 2004 Bobby Brown and his tumultuous life might be coming to the small screen. The 35-year-old singer - who's been jailed twice just this year - is trying to sell a show about himself to a network, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Brown's production company, B2 Entertainment, has been following him and equally troubled wife, Whitney Houston, around the Atlanta area, where the couple resides, the newspaper reported Thursday. If a network does pick up the show, there will be plenty of fodder. Brown - best known as a member of '80s group New Edition and for solo hits such as "My Prerogative" - has a lengthy arrest record on charges ranging from drunken driving to drugs. In December, he was arrested for allegedly striking Houston, and in February, he was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating his probation. He was released last month and headed straight to Massachusetts to answer a charge that he failed to pay $63,500 in child support for two of his children. A tearful Brown was jailed by a judge for one night before he made restitution. In addition, Houston, who has acknowledged using drugs in the past, recently checked herself into a rehabilitation center. Her publicist, Nancy Seltzer, told The Associated Press on Friday that Houston will not be central to any show. "As I understand it, the reality show is about Bobby Brown. If she can help her husband in any way, she of course will do so, but it's about Bobby," Seltzer said. Houston joined Brown, their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 10, and the family dog for dinner Monday at the Palm Restaurant in Atlanta. Houston was accompanied by a representative of her rehabilitation facility, said Mark Trigg, Houston's Atlanta lawyer. The next night, at Prime in Atlanta, Houston sang "Happy Birthday" to a fellow diner as a five-person production crew caught the action, according to restaurant manager Mark Pinsky. Houston, who is in an inpatient rehabilitation program, is allowed approved authorized outings, Seltzer said. And while Brown is working on entertainment projects, Houston is not. "She's working on getting well, she's working on herself," Seltzer said. Troubled pop duo wants lives televised ATLANTA -- Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown have had a tumultuous few months, with Brown in and out of jail and Houston checking herself into a rehabilitation program. But it's their reality, and the couple wants to bring that reality to television. Brown's production company, B2 Entertainment, has been following the couple around Atlanta in hopes of selling a show about their daily lives to a network. Houston joined Brown, their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 10, and the family dog for dinner Monday at the Palm Restaurant in Atlanta's Buckhead district. Houston was accompanied by a representative of her rehab facility, said Mark Trigg, Houston's Atlanta attorney. They dined on a 6-pound lobster, 24-ounce porterhouse steak and several plates of Clams Oreganato, waiter Jimmy Logan said. Bobbi Kristina had her own lobster and the pooch snacked on steak tartare. The next night, at Prime in Atlanta, Houston sang "Happy Birthday" to a fellow diner, as a five-person production crew caught the action, manager Mark Pinsky said. Trigg said the show is Brown's project and that Houston is supportive of her husband. Earlier this week, Houston received a speeding ticket in suburban Gwinnett County for driving 68 mph in a 45 mph zone, Gwinnett police Cpl. Dan Huggins said Friday. The "Bobby and Whitney" Show? by Joal Ryan And you thought Bobby Brown only liked having his picture taken at the police station... The famed defendant is at work on a proposed reality TV series starring himself and possibly featuring his wife, famed, if troubled, singer Whitney Houston. Camera crews were spotted this week filming Brown, 35, Houston, 40, and their entourage (daughter, dog, rehab coach) around their Atlanta hometown, Friday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Reps for Houston, still receiving treatment from a drug-treatment facility, are careful to paint the project as Brown's baby. Spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer told E! that Brown is shooting the series through his production company, Brown Houze. A publicist for B2 Entertainment, the Atlanta-based firm coproducing the show with Brown, said production has not officially begun on the show known as Being Bobby Brown. Houston's on-camera participation was said to be "under discussion." No word on what networks, if any yet, are interested in the series. As of now, the show sounds destined for the Food Channel. Monday night saw Brown's crew trail him, the wife, the kid (Bobbi Kristina), the dog (Doogie) and the rehab coach (Houston's) to the Palm Restaurant located in the nifty-named Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, reports said. Cameras captured the clan dining on clams, lobster and steak tartare (which, for the record, was for Doogie), Palm waiter Jimmy Logan told the Journal-Constitution. Tuesday night saw Brown and Houston eating out again as tape rolled. (Doogie apparently had other obligations, and did not attend.) This time, the fun couple went to Atlanta's Prime restaurant, where Houston sang "Happy Birthday" to celebration-minded diners at another table, the newspaper said. The B2 rep said the camera crews seen around Atlanta this week were not filming material for specific episodes. Celebrities currently living the camcordered life for the enjoyment and enlightenment of TV audiences include Ozzy Osbourne, et. al, marrieds Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson and Anna Nicole Smith. If his producers plan accordingly, Brown will have all the footage he needs wrapped by May 5, when inevitably he is due back in a courtroom. The onetime R&B star, whose arrest record long ago overshadowed his studio record, faces a hearing on misdemeanor battery charges he bruised Houston's cheek and cut her lip in an alleged smackdown at their home last December. Overall, the timing of Brown's production seems odd given it was just last week he was talking about how he and Houston, who has given her Tammy Wynette all in standing by her oft-arrested man, needed space from the media. "If you can just do us a favor and let us live for a while and enjoy each other," Brown told TV's Extra. "...Enjoy your lives and we're going to enjoy ours." As is their way, drama has been running high of late at the Brown-Houston household. Brown's plea for privacy coincided with his latest public appearance--in a Massachusetts jail, where he was put up for a night until he made good on child-support payments to the mother of his two eldest children by another woman. Brown came to Boston by way of the Georgia penal system, where he'd been doing time on probation violations. Houston, for her part, checked into rehab last month for unspecified drug treatment. Reportedly she checked out five days later, but her camp continues to describe her as being part of a "program." Houston lawyer Mark Trigg told the Journal-Constitution that her treatment encourages her to spend time with her family. It was in the midst of a bonding session on Tuesday that Houston scored her own police-blotter entry. The diva, on her way back from dropping off her daughter at school, was cited by Gwinnett County police in Georgia for pushing her 2004 Porsche Cayenne up to 68 mph in a 45 mph zone, the newspaper reported. Houston now has a May 15 date in traffic court. It's quite possible Sony doesn't make enough videotape to keep up with this pair. Site design by: Dolphin Webpage Designs © 1996-2004