Maureen McCormick by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
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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Bobby Brown by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
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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Split the Difference, a mockumentary set at a cutthroat ad agency, was the winner of the TV Guide Audience Award at the New York Television Festival's Independent Pilot Competition, held Sunday. Last year's winner, the fishing reality series Off the Hook, premieres on Versus (née OLN) Sept. 29.... Fox has added Justice, 'Til Death and Happy Hour to the list of series it is streaming online for free at such sites as, well, TVGuide.com.... Mr. Telephone Man, there's something wrong with this idea: Bobby Brown will be reuniting with the original members of New Edition for a one-time concert at the Forum in Los Angeles on Dec. 9, the singer's agent tells the New York Daily News.
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Following in the footsteps of countless other couples whose unions were at one time chronicled by a reality show, Whitney Houston, citing "irreconcilable differences," has filed papers requesting a legal separation from Bobby Brown, her hubby of 14 years. Brown's lawyer was quick to spin the event as "a legal separation... not a divorce or a divorce petition." Houston has asked for custody of the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and that Brown be allowed visitation rights.... In happier news
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Eminem remarried his high-school honey, Kim Mathers, on Saturday, a rep for the rapper confirms. The couple, who heatedly separated in October 2001 after two-plus years of marriage, began their reconciliation in late 2004.... On the flip side, a source tells the New York Daily News that Bobby Brown is going around saying that he and wife Whitney Houston are "getting a divorce." Reps for either party had yet to comment on the report.
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Question: A while back, I saw a preview for a movie with Johnny Knoxville in which he's confessing to a priest and his confessions are so bad the priest kicks him out of the church. I haven't heard about it since, but would love to know the title.
Answer: I haven't seen the trailer to which you're referring, but Johnny Knoxville has two completed movies kicking around, one awaiting a belated release and the other playing theaters on a regional basis. The Ringer, a broad comedy directed by Barry Blaustein and executive produced by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, stars Knoxville as an all-around failure who comes up with
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A satisfying season finale — "Bobby Brown's Greatest Hits" — and I enjoyed how it was edited together. Very clever how they used mostly titles from Bobby's and Whitney's hit songs to introduce each segment. My favorite segment was, of course, the "Hell to the No!" montage, and what made it even better is that it ended with my roommate Jason's favorite singing quote from the entire series. That would be Whitney singing "I'm not doing this with him todaaaaaaaaay!" I swear Jason has sung that quote every single day since it first aired and let me tell ya, I laugh every time.
What made me laugh the most tonight, though, was seeing the brilliant "Shut up, just shut up, shut up" scene of Whitney mouthing along with the Black Eyed Peas in the car. Priceless. I know they promised some "all-new, never-before-seen footage," but new scenes were few and far between. The glass display of Michael Jordan's shoes, the female fan grabbing Bobby i
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As the whole world knows by now, the relationship between Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston carries the kind of baggage that could never fit into an overhead compartment.
Year after year these two stagger back into the headlines, what with her repeat rehab attempts and his arrests, court appearances and prison stretches. So when the new Bravo reality series Being Bobby Brown — Thursdays at 10 pm/ET — was first announced earlier this year, it was easy to assume that we'd be getting a highly controlled exercise in image repair, with Bobby and Whitney trying to look as harmless as Ozzy and Sharon or Nick and Jessica.
The assumption was wrong. This jittery, reckless probe into the lives of urban-music royalty is the rawest "celeb reality" show yet. From their first moments on screen, it's clear that neither Bobby, 36, nor Whitney, 41, is particularly concerned about how they come across to the viewing audience. He
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