When Bobby Brown returns to Massachusetts, he always makes a splash. While cable-TV audiences can watch him sleeping and holding conversations with sandwiches, Brockton fans got to see him as he headed to Brockton District Court to address cocaine possession charges. Luckily for Brown, a court magistrate delayed the decision on whether or not to charge Brown for having cocaine in his SUV at a Holiday Inn parking lot. Laurel Sweet describes the scene and......

Two episodes of CMT's "Gone Country" have already aired, and Bobby Brown is on his way to becoming a country-music star, of sorts. Bostonist wasn't sure about watching because the show is in Nashville, not Boston, but Bostonist couldn't resist seeing Boston's bad boy on another reality show. And "Gone Country" doesn't disappoint for sheer weirdness. Bobby Brown isn't the only one aiming for country music stardom. Dee Snider, Carnie Wilson, Diana DiGarmo, Maureen McCormick,......

Drama, drama, drama. Massachusetts' favorite exile, singer/reality-TV star Bobby Brown, had a "mild heart attack" on Wednesday. At least, that's what his attorney said. Now, Brown is saying no such thing happened and that he was in the hospital for a checkup, not for treatment. Whatever his reason for being in the hospital, Brown didn't miss out on the publicity opportunity. The UK Sun has photos of Brown acting up in a hospital bed: "He......

Boston native Bobby Brown is known for many things. New Edition. A rather successful solo career. A tumultuous marriage with songbird Whitney Houston. A reality show in which Brown and Houston discussed highly inappropriate subjects on national television. Not paying child support. These days, Brown is probably best known for the child support issue. Every time he sets foot in Massachusetts to see his children from a previous relationship, he winds up in the cooler......

The Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston split has gotten uglier. It was pretty plain that he had little money to spare since Houston cut him off and he couldn't pay his child support. But now he's announced it for all the world that he is broke and is "for all intents and purposes, homeless." Houston also has custody of her daughter with Brown, and he would like to reverse that. But his recent behavior isn't......

Last time Bostonist heard of former teen idol, reality-show trainwreck, and ex-Mr. Whitney Houston Bobby Brown, a judge told him he'd better not enter Massachusetts unless he paid another ex child support. Well, if there's anyone out there who isn't afraid of the law, it's Bobby Brown. And the Track Girls reported yesterday that he's back in Brockton with another new girlfriend. Mr. Brown did in fact take care of that child-support business. Brown moves......

Given that VH1 is kicking off a new season of "Celebreality," featuring ex-child star Danny Bonaduce running amok all over LA, we at Bostonist would like to check up on our own city's most famous boybanders to see if they have matured into responsible citizens. Alas, Donnie Wahlberg, one of the few boybanders to mature somewhat gracefully, just took a knock this week. The former member of New Kids on the Block has transformed......

Everybody's talking all this stuff about him…Why don't they just let him live?...He don't need permission, makes his own decisions… Ok, we’ll stop. Bobby Brown was pulled over in Webster, Mass., yesterday and taken downtown by the local PD on warrants outstanding for 14-year-old traffic violations. If you’re wondering where Webster is, you’ll have to look outside of 495, near the border with Conn., just a bit southeast of Southbridge. When news broke of the......

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......