Angry Whitney stands by her jailed man

Singer Bobby Brown will stay in a Georgia jail until a court appearance on Wednesday, officials said tonight.

Brown has been in jail since being arrested on Friday for violating his probation from an earlier drunk driving conviction.

A warrant was issued last month, but he was not arrested until Friday night, when he was spotted at a Atlanta seafood restaurant with wife, singer Whitney Houston. Another restaurant patron called police.

Police said Houston angrily confronted officers as her husband was arrested.

“She was outwardly frustrated. She was upset. She was yelling and screaming and pointing fingers at one of our officers,” Sergeant Chris Lagerbloom said of Houston.

“We deal with emotions like that from family members all the time. To say that she was calm about it would be a misstatement.”

But he said officers did not consider charging the 40-year-old singer with disorderly conduct.

Meanwhile, Brown “was as calm and cordial and professional as you could be,” Lagerbloom said.

In January, Brown, 33, was sentenced to eight days in jail and ordered not to drive for a year after pleading guilty to a 1996 drunken driving charge in DeKalb County.

The singer was arrested because he did not show up for court-ordered community service, drug treatment or a random drug test, said DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Mikki Jones.

Last November, Brown was arrested in Atlanta on charges of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver’s licence or proof of insurance. He also did a 26-day stint in a Florida jail in 2000 for a previous probation violation.

Brown left R&B group New Edition in the late 1980s for a solo career. His hits include My Prerogative and Every Little Step.