MC Hammer to star in A&E reality series

February 17, 2009 The performer, his wife and five children will be the focus of a half-hour, 11-episode reality series set to premiere this year. Executive producer J.D. Roth said the show likely will play similar to an unscripted version of the Huxtable family from "The Cosby Show." Hammer had a spectacular rise and fall in the early 1990s, becoming a household name and selling millions of records before falling into debt and bankruptcy because of overspending on a lavish lifestyle.

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