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Reality-Show Cameras Tail Houston, Brown

Friday, April 02, 2004

02:50 PM PT

Coming soon, maybe, to a television screen near you: a reality show starring celebrity couple Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston.

Camera crews have been following the couple around Atlanta recently as Brown and the rehabbing Houston hit the town. Houston even sang "Happy Birthday" to a diner who was celebrating at one restaurant.

It was apparently Brown's idea to put his life, along with Houston's, in front of the camera full-time. "This is Bobby's project, and while Whitney has no direct interest in the project, she is very supportive of her husband," Houston's lawyer, Mark Trigg, tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Brown and Houston are regular headline-grabbers, lately for less-than-positive reasons. Brown, a member of the R&B group New Edition before embarking on a solo career, spent a day in a Massachusetts jail last week in a child-support case. He was released after paying more than $60,000 in back child support.

He's due back in court next month to face a charge that he hit Houston in December. All that is on top of a 60-day sentence for violating probation on a drunken-driving charge.

Houston, meanwhile, checked into a drug-rehab facility last month, only to leave the treatment center five days later. Her spokeswoman has said Houston is still taking part in the rehab program, and Trigg tells the Journal-Constitution that someone from Houston's facility is with her whenever she's out.

Brown's production company, B2 Entertainment, will shop the project to TV networks. Whether anyone picks it up, of course, is their prerogative.