Bad boy singer Bobby Brown is trying to launch a career as a country artist in a new US reality show. The ex-husband of Whitney Houston swaps his baseball cap for a cowboy hat as one of the contestants on Gone Country. And he tells his rivals, including Thong Song star Sisqo and Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, he is the real star of the show by turning up in a private jet. The 38 year-old also wastes no time forming an unlikely friendship over a cigarette with former Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick, who played pin-up Marcia Brady. The wannabes will live at the Nashville mansion of country superstar John Rich while they battle it out for the right to record a country track. Rich will pick the winner and produce the record to try to make it a hit with skeptical country fans. In the first episode, confident Bobby tells the other hopefuls: “Don’t take it personal when I win. That’s what I’m here for Look out Nashville, I’ve gone country. Country music is a part of soul, soul music. I feel I’m a soulful person and that’s why I’m here.”Uh hu.

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