Amanda Keller and Chris Brown hit 100 in Living (Room) colour

AS The Living Room marks 100 episodes Amanda Keller celebrates an encounter with Hugh Jackman, and Chris Brown just celebrates surviving

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to August 31, 2014 - Sunday TV Guides first use. Amanda Keller and Chris Brown for The Living Room. Picture: MUST CREDIT Nigel Lough

WHEN Chris Brown took the gig as co-host and travel reporter on The Living Room, he figured it would be a pretty cushy job.

But as the lifestyle show’s 100th episode looms on Friday night, the man who in six seasons of Bondi Vet has survived being charged by rhinos, operated on lions and sticking his hand into crocodile jaws without a scratch laughingly catalogues his Living Room injury toll.

“I have a scar on my forehead from a medieval festival sword fight. This guy took it so seriously he gave me concussion and split my head open,” he says.

“At a big wave festival in Chile I took off on a 14-foot wave — way above anything I’d surfed — and tore a groin muscle and got whiplash.

“Bobsledding, I took charge of a team of Huskies and Malamutes and it was all going beautifully until they took off.

“I fell doing about 30 kilometres an hour, but hung on to the sled because I thought if I let go the dogs they’d would never be found again.

“I got dragged across the ice, the brake broke, and the result was tibial bone bruising. I couldn’t walk on that for two weeks.

“I tore my medial knee ligament in a Zorb ball, and broke my foot at the Naked Man Festival in Japan.

Risky business...Chris Brown at the Naked Man festival where he broke his foot. Picture: Supplied

“But I guess if you’re going to break anything at a Naked Man festival in the foot is preferable.”

Back on The Living Room couch, there’s plenty of verbal friendly fire as anchor Amanda Keller and her wicked sense of humour are an indomitable force for Brown and cohorts Miguel Maestre and Barry Du Bois.

Keller added The Living Room duties to daily breakfast radio three years ago, joking that she said an immediate ‘yes please’ when she found out Brown was going to be on it.

“It could have been a show about gravediggers and I would have said yes,” she says.

The four have developed firm friendships as she calls the shots like a stern but indulgent den mother.

“Miguel is an hilariously loose cannon. Chris and I have a similar sense of humour so we always laugh at the same things,” Keller says.

“Barry is never happier than if he has a nail belt on and can do a drawing on the back of a napkin about how you should be doing the kitchen. He comes for a cup of tea and redesigns my house.”

Close encounter... Amanda Keller meets Hugh Jackman with a face mask on. Picture: Supplied

But it’s Hugh Jackman who gave Keller her most memorable Living Room moment — when she famously surprised him by pretending she wasn’t ready for her interview with the star.

She answered his knock on the hotel-room door, wearing ‘a green face mask, egg-stained pyjamas, and a wax strip on my top lip’, cameras rolling.

“He laughed uproariously and just went with it,” Keller says.

“At the end he reached over and pulled off the piece of tape with my fake handlebar moustache. That was one of my best days ever.”

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