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Bostonist has always been honest about its reality-TV obsession, but when we heard about the newest one this week, we were a bit skeptical. One of the original boy bands of the 1980s, New Edition, hailed from Boston and included Roxbury boy Bobby Brown. In the days before he was arrested for drugs, not paying child support, and even a Disney World brawl, Brown was pretty famous in Maurice Starr's New Edition and then branched out with a solo career, which included "My Prerogative" (Bostonist had the cassette tape. Jealous?). So Brown was hot for a while and then got cold like most teen stars do. He was back in the spotlight once he married pop queen Whitney Houston in 1992 and the two of them have been in and out of court and tabloids ever since. more ›