Hours after Whitney Houston is laid to rest, her ex-husband Bobby Brown will hit the stage at an Indian Casino in Connecticut … TMZ has learned.

Brown is booked to perform with the guys from New Edition at the Mohegan Sun Indian Casino at 8 PM EST on Saturday night.

Whitney’s funeral is scheduled to begin at noon EST in Newark, NJ. It’s unclear if Bobby plans to attend the funeral.

It’s kind of like bookends, because hours after Whitney died Bobby performed on-stage with his group in Mississippi.

Alexander Ludwig sports an American Apparel shirt in this new shot from the March 2012 issue of Teen Vogue.

The 19-year-old USC drama major and actor chatted with the mag about life on set and playing the bad guy in The Hunger Games.

On the pranks pulled on set: One day, I was totally sweaty and exhausted after a day of fighting, and I walked into my trailer. Id already taken off my costume, so I was just in my briefs, and I couldnt find my clothes anywhere! Amandla [Stenberg], who plays Rue, and Jackie [Emerson], who plays Foxface, had hidden them in the fridge.

On playing Cato: Ive never been a bad guy before, so I loved the idea.

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After Jay-Z and Beyonce welcomed their first child, a daughter named Blue Ivy, on January 7, new father Jay-Z took to the music studio to express his happiness.

In a new song posted on his social website Life + Times on January 9 titled “Glory,” Jay-Z discusses the joy he feels for his daughter, the trouble the couple had with previous pregnancies and his wife Beyonce’s past miscarriage.

“False alarms and false starts / All made better by the sound of your heart / All the pain of the last time / I pray so hard it was the last time,” he raps in the song, which can be heard below. “Last time the miscarriage was so tragic / We was afraid you’d disappear / But nah baby you magic,” Jay-Z later added.

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Wait until she sees the pictures (teehee!)

Someone needs to remind The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe Sims about quite how cold it is out there at the moment.

The brunette nipped out (get it? GET IT?) to the shops this morning, wearing nothing but a pink tracksuit to keep her warm.

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“NCIS” actor David Fisher won’t go to jail after allegedly choking his neighbor — because he just struck a plea deal with prosecutors … in which the battery charge against him was totally dropped.

In exchange for dropping the choking charge, Fisher pled “no contest” to a much more minor disturbing the peace charge … and was sentenced to pay a $50 fine, which the judge wrote off.

TMZ broke the story … Fisher was arrested back in September after an argument with his neighbor turned violent — with Fisher allegedly trying to cut off the guy’s oxygen supply.

Fisher tells us, “I was set on by a bully who asked for trouble and lost his fight.

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Willow Smith sits pretty on top of a display before going for a little shopping spree with Boys Girls Club Families at Target in New York City on Thursday morning (December 8).

Just the day before, the 11-year-old musician hit up BET for the debut of her new music video, Fireball. Check it out below!

It’s gonna make them feel like they have control over their lives and can do what they want to do and be the person they want to be, Willow said to the Washington Post of her upcoming album.

Willow is also pictured at 2011 Holiday in the Hangar to benefit the Garden of Dreams Foundation at Delta Terminal 2 at John F. K

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