Toni Braxton fans, you can breathe again. Reports say Bravo has just inked the deal on the reality series featuring the singer.

Braxton mentioned the show, currently titled “Braxton Family Values,” on the 2010 Grammy red carpet. Reports now say the contract has been signed. The show will premiere in the fall, Sister2Sister Magazine reports, and will follow Braxton in the studio and her return to the stage after her newest album, “Pulse” releases on Tue. May 4.

Reports say the show will also feature Braxton juggling the resurgence of her singing career with her responsibilities to her family. It will be interesting to see how her current separation from husband Keri Lewis of Mint Condition will factor into the show (if at all)

When next week’s pop music charts are revealed, Sade is expected to have earned only their second #1 album in the US. The first was Promise 25 years ago in 1985 which featured the top 5 hit single “The Sweetest Taboo.” The album has already topped charts in Italy and Poland. The first single, the title song “Soldier of Love,” has received strong praise from the music press and it reached #1 on Jazz radio airplay charts in the US as well as being Sade’s first top 10 R&B single since 1992. The accompanying music video is stunning. Check out “Soldier of Love” from the #1 album in the US below.

One of the best-selling female artists in American music history Brandy Norwood turns 29 today .

We hear the crooner has had his latest CD, which was supposed to be released Sunday, pushed back until March 30. Why the delay? A source at the “Confessions” singer’s record company says Jive Records refused to put Usher’s album out until he signs with a new management firm. Apparently the crooner and his mother — and former manager– Jonetta Patton are officially on the outs and severed their professional ties in late November 2009. ”She walked away from the project because Usher had his girlfriend [and former Def Jam executive] Grace Miguel was all in the mix,” says the source.  ”She felt as though if she didn’t end things when she did, it would permanently affect their personal relationship,” continues the source. Usher had apparently declared that he would manage himself, with the help of Miguel, but the label felt that “there was chaos in the camp.”

Jive has released three singles in an attempt to launch the CD “Raymond vs. Raymond.”

The first single, “Papers,” which was released last September, only reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100, so the label began working two more new singles, “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” and “More.”

But there may be hope for the singer yet: It appears Usher is close to signing an agreement with AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips,  manager for Lionel Richie, Toni Braxton and the late Michael Jackson.

Is Beyonce Knowles’ father Mathew new a baby daddy? That’s the question inquiring minds are asking. And soon so will the courts.  That’s because a baby mama by the name of Alexsandra Wright is taking papa Knowles to court next week as part of her paternity suit that she filed against him last October.

In the meantime, just last week, Wright gave birth to a baby boy named Nixon that she claims was fathered by Knowles.  Wright claims she and Knowles carried on an 18-month affair. But so far, he’s denying that he is the newborn’s father. He even agreed to take a paternity test in order to prove his innocence.

Since the Saints won the Superbowl did Reggie Bush proposed to Kim Kardashian. The rumors say he popped the question last Friday while they were at dinner with her family at Prime 211. I doubt it! As much as Kim over-shares on Twitter, I find it very hard to believe she would’ve kept that big of news quiet — although the rumors say she’s trying to keep the alleged engagement on the low so as not to take away from Reggie’s Superbowl shine.

Though Lil Wayne was expected to be shipped off to the clinker yesterday, the rapper’s sentencing was held off until Mar. 2, the Associated Press reported. According to Weezy’s lawyer, the Grammy winner is in need of dental surgery, which he won’t be able to get from behind prison walls.

Hollywood actor Russell Crowe and singer Beyonce Knowles will star in a remake of classic movie A Star Is Born. The “Gladiator” star Crowe is the new favourite to play an ageing, alcoholic musician who mentors and falls in love with a younger female star, reported contactmusic.com.

The film was a big screen hit in the 1930s and it has already been reworked twice, with Judy Garland and James Mason in 1957 and Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson in 1976

Dancing With The Stars runner-up and NFL star Warren Sapp was arrested Saturday - and released on bail Sunday - after being accused by his girlfriend of two years of choking her at Miami Beach’s Shore Club hotel. Police arrested Sapp on Saturday on one charge of misdemeanor domestic battery, reports AP. He was scheduled to appear as a Super Bowl analyst for the NFL Network.  Sapp’slawyer, Christopher Lyons,  said the former player plans to cooperate with authorities.