For all the good things Twitter does — thanks again for helping us discover this — it's also the central location for celebrity death rumors to spin out of control. Check out eight celebs that Twitter has killed off (and who we're happy to report are still alive).
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Bobby Brown is not dead, despite a rash of Internet speculation to the contrary, Brown's rep's office tells TVGuide.com.
Reports of the New Edition singer's death began circulating late Tuesday on...
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Perhaps trying to capitalize on the success of this winter's Gone Country, CMT is reuniting former housemates Maureen McCormick, Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson for the eight-episode reality series Outsider's Inn.The series, currently shooting and set to premiere in August, finds the former Marcia Brady having leased a bed and breakfast in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and quickly realizing it is too much to handle alone. McCormick enlists the help of Brown as entertainment director and Wilson as the master chef, while she remains responsible for managing the property. Each episode will feature new, eclectic guests who promise their own set of problems. Personally, I'd rather stay at the Bates Motel. Will you be checking in? — Adam Bryant
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CMT in January will premiere Gone Country, a reality competition in which the likes of Bobby Brown, Carnie Wilson, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, Idol finalist Diana DeGarmo, Julio Iglesias Jr., Maureen McCormick and R&B artist Sisqo are tutored by Big & Rich's John Rich in the ways of country crooning. According to the Reporter, the celebs will cohabitate in a Nashville manse for two weeks as they compete in challenges involving the on- and off-stage country-music lifestyle. At the end, Rich will dub one a winner, and he/she will release a song about, I am guessing, a great love gone wrong.
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Rose Rock, the mother of comedian Chris Rock, claims she was racially discriminated against when she was seated — then ignored for more than a half hour — at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in South Carolina, the Associated Press reports. Rock plans to sue the Tennessee-based company, which has said it doesn't "tolerate any form of discrimination" and is taking the complaint "very seriously".... Whitney Houston has officially filed for divorce from her husband of 14 years, Bobby Brown. Houston has asked that she be granted custody of the couple's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 13.
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