Jonathan Brown struck down with Covid after celebrity-studded CBD event

Tongues are wagging – and we don’t mean for their Covid test – that a host of high-profile Melburnians, including our beloved Browny, may have contracted the virus.

Oh no, not Browny!

That was the collective sigh when this dreaded drainer of a Covid virus was thought to have got the great man Jonathan Brown this week.

A mad rush of phone calls was put in place by Nova Entertainment executive and program director Peter Clay on Thursday night to staff and on-air talent, telling them to follow government restrictions and get tested.

The NOVA and Smooth radio station was subsequently shut down for deep cleaning.

On Friday, the Chrissie, Sam and Brownie breakfast show aired a prerecorded program.

“We take the health, safety and privacy of all our staff very seriously,” a Nova spokeswoman told the Herald Sun on Friday. “We will continue to abide by and follow all current state government health advice and directions to maintain a safe workplace for all our employees.”

Brown was not returning Page 13 calls on Friday.

The radio and TV Foxtel presenter was last seen out publicly at the ritzy Bar Bambi celebrations in the CBD last week, where he and wife Kylie Brown sat with Chris and Bec Judd for dinner.

The tongues are wagging, and we don’t mean sticking out for their Covid drive-through test.

Our beloved Browny and others have been whispered to have contracted the virus.

It does seem the way of the world as we ease out of restrictions, but it still has plenty in public relations rattled and spinning predictable porkies.

Moving over to political circles and Spring St was all in a quiver when a Covid scare almost shut down parliament.

But surely not when there was an important lockdown legislation to be passed.

A journalist from the other newspaper did their due diligence, calling both political parties to tell them they had contracted the virus and to be careful as they had recently attended a doorstop press conference at parliament.

The rapid antigen tests were flying off the shelves down the Paris end of Collins St.

Elsewhere in corporate world and a high flyer was struck down this week. They also had to make the awks phone call to the many people they had been hobnobbing with over long lunches. One gambling executive had the horrors as they had only recently been pressing the flesh with none other than our visiting Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

We thought the finger pointing was bad when the lockdown parties were playing out.

Even the Melbourne Cup was accused of being Patient Zero following THAT post-race celebration.

Now it’s the rolled-up $100 nose notes that are thought to have caused a super spread.

Watch this space.