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On Monday (Jan. 23), R&B group New Edition was accustomed with a brilliant on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- a applicable accolade to the '80s quintet amenable for some of the decade's best iconic hits -- and as admirers abstruse over the advance of BET’s three-night biopic The New Edition Story, the alley to fame is a aflutter one.

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The mini-series -- which bedeviled amusing media and reeled in 4.4 actor absolute admirers with its premiere telecase on Tuesday with 2.6 actor of those admirers in the 19-49 age range -- delved into New Edition's ancestry as adolescent stars while case aback the curtains on the group's shortcomings.

While both the casting of kids and their earlier counterparts nailed their portrayals of Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell, Bobby Brown and Johnny Gill, admirers were additionally analytical about the accepted cachet of the group's real-life members.

Here's what the men of New Edition are up to now.

Bobby Brown

Then: While Bobby Brown may accept been dubbed New Edition’s citizen bad boy, the accompanist was an actual standout brilliant and -- afterwards actuality kicked out of the accumulation in the mid-'80s -- the aboriginal one to accompany a acknowledged abandoned career. His larger-than-life persona and grittier, new jack swing-influenced complete resulted in blemish anthology Don't Be Cruel breeding bristles top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and acceptable Brown his aboriginal Grammy award, for “Every Little Step”.

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Now: Although his claimed activity -- he was the backward Whitney Houston's husband, and ancestor to the backward Bobbi Kristina Brown -- generally eclipsed his aesthetic legacy, Bobby Brown connected to agitate out music, with 2012’s The Masterpiece continuing as his aftermost anthology to date. Brown, forth with NE bandmates Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant, formed the accumulation Heads of State, and boarded on their own bout alone to afterwards accumulate with all of the NE members.

Bobby Brown is additionally set to banderole the Valentine’s Day Music Festival this year with adolescent R&B kings Keith Sweat, Avant and El DeBarge. Aside from music, Brown and his wife Alicia launched Bobby Brown Foods, an all-natural aliment artefact band advised to accommodate advantageous condiment and sauces to consumers. Brown has additionally appeared in Kevin Hart’s scripted BET alternation Absolute Husbands of Hollywood.

Johnny Gill

Then: Afterwards Brown’s adjournment from the group, Gill abutting NE as one of the lead choir (along with Ralph Tresvant), accomplishing abundant of the abundant appropriation on a brace of the group’s better hits, "Can You Stand The Rain" and "If This Isn’t Love." Like Brown, Gill saw ample abandoned success alfresco of his NE associates -- the D.C. native's 1990 self-titled accomplishment went double-platinum, and follow-ups Proactive (1993) and Let’s Get The Mood Right (1996) both went gold.

Now: Back activity solo, the accompanist hasn’t absent a beat, and appear his aftermost flat alms Game Changer in 2014. Gill will accompany Fantasia as an opener for Charlie Wilson’s In It To Win It tour, blame off in February.

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Ralph Tresvant

Then: Tresvant captivated bottomward the advance articulate atom back the group’s inception, and admitting Gill’s access afterwards in NE’s career, the aboriginal frontman's articulation remained an capital allotment of NE’s sound. He appear his self-titled admission anthology in 1990, which was acquiescently received, abundantly acknowledgment and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart-topping distinct "Sensitivity".

Now: Tresvant ventured into acting and media projects, arena Sam Cooke in the 2014 James Brown biopic Get On Up. Aftermost September, he launched his own radio show; Inside the Ride, based in his hometown Boston.

Ricky Bell

Then: Bell lingered in the group's accomplishments as a acknowledging vocalist, but back Bell Biv DeVoe emerged, he fronted the anew formed aftereffect trio, whose admission accomplishment Poison went 4x platinum and spawned the best archetypal appellation track.

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Now: Bell currently tours with Bell Biv Deoe, and the accumulation afresh performed for Steve Harvey’s Showtime at the Apollo. BBD's new anthology Three Stripes -- the trio’s aboriginal anthology in over 15 years -- was appear on Friday, Jan. 27.

Michael Bivins

Then: In The New Edition Story, admirers got to see how Michael Bivins approved that he was added than aloof a agreeable talent, as he absitively to apprentice about the business ancillary of the music industry -- arch to him advertent '90s hitmaking groups like Boyz II Men and Another Bad Creation, and starting the Motown-distributed almanac characterization Biv 10 Records, which produced the accepted babe accumulation 702.

Now: Last October, Ramsay Park in Boston -- Bivins and the group's native burghal -- called its basketball cloister afterwards the singer, who “put a lot of time into arena ball”.

Ronnie DeVoe

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Then: DeVoe was bent to accompany NE back the accumulation was developing, eventually accepting in acknowledgment to the captivation of his uncle, choreographer Brooke Payne. He again afterwards abutting Bell and Bivins in Bell Biv DeVoe.

Now: Ronnie DeVoe may be a domiciliary name acknowledgment to his boy-band credentials, but he apparent a additional career afterwards in activity as the architect and CEO of DeVoe Broker Associates, a absolute acreage aggregation based in Atlanta.

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