Whitney Houston's funeral will be streamed live on the internet and, it was announced yesterday. The revelation will please her grieving fans, who were disappointed to learn that the star's funeral would be a private affair. There will also be no public memorial service for the iconic singer. But members of the public wishing to pay their respects to Ms Houston will be able to do so by following online as she is laid to rest. The Associated Press has been granted the right to film the ceremony, which takes place on Saturday in the singer's hometown of Newark, New Jersey.
The funeral will be streamed on the AP's website, and will also be made available to broadcasters. While the service at New Hope Baptist Church will be not be open to the public, that has not stopped Ms Houston's fans from bringing flowers as and other gifts as tributes to the singer.
The church, where Ms Houston sang as a child, has become one of several sites where people have gathered to remember the singer since her death last Saturday night at the age of 48. She is also being remembered by the New Jersey government, after governor Chris Christie ordered state buildings to lower their flags on the day of the funeral.
Ms Houston's decline from world-beating success into damaging drug addiction has been blamed by some on her turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown, and it has been reported that Ms Houston's family asked Mr Brown to stay away from her funeral.
However, he has insisted that those reports are false, and that he will attend the ceremony in order to support the couple's 18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina. There is believed to have been disagreement among the Houston family as to where the singer should be buried. Whitney's mother Cissy and her cousin Dionne Warwick are said to have argued that she should be laid to rest in Atlanta, but other relatives who argued for Newark won the day. She may be buried alongside her father, army serviceman and entertainment executive John Houston, who died in 2003.
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