Being Good Bobby Brown
A funny thing happened at the Bobby Brown court date Wednesday: Bobby Brown showed.
Three months after rating an arrest warrant for not showing, the oft-arrested, frequently AWOL entertainer was present and accounted for at a child-support hearing in Norfolk Probate and Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts.
To make matters more routine, Brown told the court he was caught up with his financial obligations to La Princia and Bobby Jr., his two teenage children by former girlfriend Kim Ward.
Said court official Patrick McDermott to the Boston Globe: "It's refreshing to go to a Bobby Brown hearing and have him be all paid up."
Judge Paula Carey, however, wasn't entirely charmed. She scolded the 36-year-old singer for skipping the June 1 court date, and called his stomach-flu excuse "unacceptable," the Associated Press reported.
Despite the judge's wrath, Brown seemed to be in a "good mood," as the Globe put it. The former New Edition standout likely was pleased to report that he had contributed, as ordered, $132,000 to a college fund for his two children by Ward, and that he was set to make a final installment of $43,750 in November.
"He probably got a payday," McDermott said in the Globe.
Brown just wrapped the first season of Bravo's Being Bobby Brown, his unvarnished reality series which costars La Princia and Bobby Jr., as well as wife Whitney Houston and their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. The first episode documented a Brown release from jail. The second episode documented a Brown court appearance (for a domestic violence charge). In a twist, the third episode depicted a Brown family vacation to London, where a fun, arrest-free time was had by all.
"I haven't been as bad as they say I have," Brown told the New York Daily News on the eve of his reality TV debut, "and I'm definitely a better man than they think I am. So this is a way for me to show who I really am as a person."
According to the Boston Herald, the judge in his child-support case did give the "My Prerogative" crooner credit for staying current with his monthly child-support payments. (Last year, he spent a day in jail for falling behind by $63,500.) But Carey warned Brown she was going to keep a close eye on him.
In that case, it might be a good idea for the court to get cable. Brown seems to turn up pretty regularly there.





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