Reality Roll Call

Courtesy of CMT:

CMT’s hit franchise, GONE COUNTRY, returns with award-winning singer, songwriter & producer, John Rich, as host for a third season featuring new challenges and a new cast who are vying for a chance at country music success. GONE COUNTRY, the series that takes seven celebrities from every realm of the entertainment industries and immerses them in all things country, will premiere in January 2009 on CMT. Production is currently underway in Nashville.

The cast for GONE COUNTRY 3 includes:

- George Clinton funk musician, founding member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic; member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

- Tara Conner television personality; Miss USA 2006

- Taylor Dayne pop vocalist/actress

- Micky Dolenz actor, musician; drummer/lead vocalist of The Monkees

- Sheila E. entertainer/musician; philanthropist

- Richard Grieco actor/musician

BEVERLY HILLS, CA July 9, 2008 CMT’s highest rated series ever, GONE COUNTRY, returns with Nashville hitmaker, John Rich, as host for a second season of antics with a brand new cast of characters who are each vying for a chance at country success. Featuring a cast that includes performers from various facets of the entertainment industry, GONE COUNTRY indoctrinates seven celebrities in the ins and outs of the country music business for a chance to break into the country music genre, and premieres on Friday, August 15 at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT on CMT.

The cast for GONE COUNTRY includes Sebastian Bach singer, songwriter, Broadway actor, former lead singer of Skid Row; Irene Cara GRAMMY and Academy Award winning singer, songwriter, actress, “Fame”; Mikalah Gordon singer, host, actress, 2005 “American Idol” finalist; Jermaine Jackson television personality, lead singer of The Jackson 5; Chris Kirkpatrick television personality, music producer, member of *NSYNC; Lorenzo Lamas musical theater actor, actor “Renegade” and “Falcon Crest”; and Sean Young actress, “Blade Runner” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.”

CMT’s reality show Gone Country has been renewed for a second season, and it already has its cast of characters, I mean singers, lined up.

This time around the group that will be shacked up and fighting over the chance to release a country single will include, Jermaine Jackson, Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach, Fame’s Irene Cara, American Idol’s Mikalah Gordon, actor Lorenzo Lamas, actress Sean Young and N’Sync’s Chris Kirkpatrick.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show will return in August, with John Rich (of Big and Rich) who will still be hosting and choosing the winner. The first season of Gone Country was CMT’s top rated series ever.

Singer and reality tv star Bobby Brown has written an autobiography which explains his flawed adult existence is the fault of his ex-wife, Whitney Houston.

In his yet to be released book, former boy band star, blames the pop diva on his addiction to drugs. According to the New York Post, in his book, titled Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But, he writes:

“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice.” It wasn’t the gateway drug use that did him in, because I assume that he didn’t even know coke existed.

It’s kind of like a bank robber saying, “I would have never robbed a bank if I hadn’t got mixed up with bank robbers. Before then, all I did was shoplift, mug people, burglarize and carjack. And really, mugging old folks was my favorite thing.” The first step to making positive changes in your life is to blame someone else for your life. Thanks for sharing, Bobby.

Usually when someone is trying to promote an upcoming show, or movie that is about to come out, they send out a press release or two, or give a few interviews to the press. But then there are those who are publicity innovators like, Lindsay Lohan, who promoted her last movie by getting locked up and going to rehab. And American Idol castoff Jessica Sierra who reminded us to watch Celebrity Rehab by getting locked up and getting sent to rehab.

Add R&B pop singer Bobby Brown to the list of innovators. The star of the reality show Being Bobby Brown, wanted to remind us all that he was going to be on the CMT reality show, Gone Country by getting arrested in Boston for possession of cocaine.