Demetria McKinney on playing her idol Whitney Houston

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The world caught another glimpse of the former reality star Demetria McKinney when she played Whitney Houston in TV One's "Bobbi Kristina," the controversial biopic about Bobbi Kristina Brown - the only child of Houston and singer Bobby Brown. McKinney talks about life after Real Housewives of Atlanta, balancing motherhood with fame and why music is her first love. Plus, Yolanda's back from South Africa, Cori turns a work trip into a mini vacation and Charli debates the true meaning of glamping.

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0:00.0	Chala Pan,
0:03.8	Pan.
0:04.8	And, Kari, happy.
0:06.3	Kori, happy belated birthday.
0:08.8	Thank you, and funny, quick, quick, story, I am not a Libra y'all I am a Virgo a lot of people in social media
0:14.9	were like come on Libra's and I love I have mad love for Libra's okay my birthday was
0:19.0	September 19th but you know what grown folks get with moms kids all my friends have realized we
0:24.2	couldn't celebrate until this last weekend so I just want to clear it up I'm with
0:27.5	I stand with Beyonza now I'm a Virco lovely brz I love y'all dearly but you're a verk on team v okay anyway back so who's on the show
0:39.2	just want to clear that up but thank you thank you we're to get that out of the way first because it was important.
0:44.3	I got a lot of Libra love. Yes. Clear it up. It's all good in the Zodiac. Yes all good.
0:50.4	This week we have the star of TV1's original movie Bobby Christina which went to number one
0:58.0	It aired Sunday night right?
1:00.0	Sunday night so shout out to Demetria McKinney who plays Whitney Houston in this movie and
1:04.1	y'all know how I feel about Whitney my lord. Even Demetria feels that way
1:10.0	yes and we had a moment with her we had a moment her her. She even gave us a little Whitney her
1:14.4	Whitney impression. Now we have to say we did talk to her before, before, you know,
1:19.4	before it aired, but she gave us all the tea. She gave us all the tea so stay or stick around for that because it's coming up. You are missing one of our voices.
1:28.0	We miss you Yolanda. Yolanda is just getting back and getting acquainted with being back in the office after being in
1:33.7	Durbin.
1:34.7	I, Charlie, can I give you a shout out another one?
1:36.7	Because last week you held it down for both of us because you would make it real like,
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