The callousness of Bravo’s 'Being Bobby Brown' makes the sanitized reverence of new biopic 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' feel necessary.
Steffans is an author and former music video model who was Brown’s lover in the 2000s during his marriage to Whitney. “He always felt very angry about that. He told me, ‘What everybody saw wasn’t the real Whitney.’ He always said her private persona — which you saw on— was who she really was.” But rather than valorize Brown, the show demeaned both of them.
For Bravo, though, the humbling-bordering-on-humiliation of the once-adored stars seemed to be the point. Lauren Zalaznick, Bravo’s president at the time, reportedly greenlit the series in 15 minutes. “It was very apparent to me that this was something right for Bravo,” she