Bobby Brown Sprung From Jail By Radio Station

The days when Bobby Brown was king of the world, doing songs for Ghostbusters II and possibly getting to smack Whitney Houston in the face whenever he wanted, may be well and truly over - but at least Bobby Brown isn't in jail any more.

Not so long ago Bobby Brown was given a jail sentence for bumbling into Massachusetts even though he knew he'd be slapped with an arrest warrant if he ever set foot in that state again. This left Bobby Brown with two choices - either pay up the $19,000 he owed in late child support fees or languish in a jail cell for a month with a burly arsonist who just wanted to paint his face up all pretty. For one reason or another, Bobby Brown chose jail - and then Washington radio station Hot 99.5 FM decided to pay Bobby's child support bills in return for a week's work on the station.

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For a man who's spent the decade being accused of raping under-age prostitutes, battering security guards, drink-driving, punching his wife and popping in and out of jail and rehab more times than most people go to the dentist, the last few months have not been easy for Bobby Brown. Professionally his life was a mess - Bobby Brown had recently buggered up a New Edition comeback - but the state of his personal life was even worse.

When crack-addled Whitney Houston was crawling around her shell of a home obsessively playing with sex toys and batting imaginary demons away from her face, Bobby Brown somehow got the blame, and it wasn't long before Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston split up - but that's what happens to a man who has Osama bin Laden as a love-rival, we guess. But while Whitney Houston has taken the split in her stride - appearing in public looking vaguely normal and auctioning loads of her old crap off - Bobby Brown ended up in jail.

Bobby Brown has been in trouble before, you understand - getting arrested for 14-year-old offences and the like - but when he apparently stopped paying his child support bills, that's when Massachusetts police put an arrest warrant out for Bobby Brown. Last weekend Bobby Brown stumbled back into Massachusetts for one reason or another, where he promptly got arrested and was banged up for a month or until he could pay his $19,000 child-support bill. It didn't look as if Bobby Brown had the means to do that, but radio station Hot 99.5 FM did, as MSNBC reports:

Bobby Brown’s release after three nights in the county jail was the result of a radio station paying the $19,150 the R&B singer owed in late child-support payments and court fees, the station said Thursday. Hot 99.5 FM, which broadcasts in the Washington D.C. area, intervened following on-air discussions and two days of negotiation with Brown’s attorney, the host of the station’s “The Kane Show,” told The Associated Press. “In exchange for the money, he agreed to be an employee of our radio station for one week,” where he will discuss what he did wrong and how he could turn his life around, said Kane, who goes by one name. “We are going to have a very open and candid conversation.”

Bobby Brown isn't famous any more - that was his lawyer's excuse about why he couldn't pay the child-support, anyway - so $19,000 for a week's work seems like quite a cushy deal, especially since all it seems Bobby Brown has to do is to just say the word 'sorry' into a microphone a lot. We'd have given Bobby Brown a much tougher ride - forcing him to scurry around making tea, stay up to guest-present the 3am-5am graveyard slot and run around the town in a fake ball and chain shouting about how he's a prisoner of Hot 99.5 FM's solid-gold hit rotation policy.

Or at the very least we'd make Bobby Brown do his disgusting poop-tugging trick on a DJ live on air. You didn't think we'd go an entire article without mentioning that, did you?

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Bobby Brown Free After Paying Child Support - MSNBC