Being Bobby Brown’s Shadow
Tuesday. 9.5.06 10:58 pm
Morning beer cravings, child-support-adjustment cases and allegations of having been robbed of $20 million. A 14-hour hang with Bobby Brown is no Mr. Cooper experience.
Posted In: Magazine, Features, Men's Room, Features
story: Chloe A. Hilliard
Coffee is for losers. At 8 a.m. Bobby Brown is seeking more than a caffeine kick. Speaking barely above a whisper, the sleepy-eyed crooner asks no one in particular for what he considers to be the breakfast of champions: a ntruitious blend of wheat, barley and yeast…beer, if you want to get specific. Strolling the lobby of Boston’s Crosstown Center Hampton Inn, a modest hotel where single rooms max out at $169 a night, other guests are chomping on rubbery eggs and dry muffins. Some a probably passing judgement on the self-proclaimed King of R&B. Of course, a breski probably isn’t the best thing for Brown to consume on his way to a Massachusetts court of law, but he’s a stubborn man. Still, his entourage dismiss his request.
It’s hard to tell if the unflinchingly nuts Bobby we know from the runaway hit Being Bobby Brown - now filming its second season - is a made-for-TV trainwreck, or a man who consciously does the disoriented dance because he knows that it’s expected. Blame the show’s success on our need to feast on the travails of others, or the primal point-and-laugh instinct that kicks in when someone trips and falls. Any way you cut it, though, Brown, 37, is America’s guilty pleasure. Playing fly-on-the-wall, KING looks for the man behind the caricature.
Continue reading this story in the September 2006 issue of KING (#34).
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