More surprising is some of Brown’s recent social media shuffling. A post from October,of Brown posing with Opposition LeaderPeter Dutton and conservative Liberal personalityTeena McQueen,has mysteriously vanished from Brown’s Instagram.

The trio had met at a Liberal event on the Central Coast to discuss the party’s nuclear policy. More recently,former Liberal vice president McQueen was seen partying at Mar-a-Lago along with Australia’s richest person,Gina Rinehart,afterDonald Trumpwon the US presidential election.

WhenAlan Joneswas charged with indecent assault offences,McQueen sprung to action in a Liberal WhatsApp group to declare the case against the broadcaster was “absolute bullshit”.

All this baggage made CBD rather suspicious about the photo’s disappearance. Was Brown worried that a happy snap with McQueen might play badly with the good burghers of the northern beaches,who’d unceremoniously dumped the Liberals in 2022 over the party’s perceived inaction on climate change and general bad vibes?

Not so,said Brown,who told us he’d been sharpening up his social media and removing photos where he didn’t look the part.

“I was 12 kilos heavier and looked like an unmade bed,” he told CBD.

Move on up

It is a big CBD shout-out to ABC Canberra newsreaderJames Glenday.

We are tipping the big guy to replaceABC News Breakfast hostMichael Rowland,who announced on Monday he is stepping away from the breakfast sofa after 14 years.

Rowland’s departure was long mooted after his cohost Lisa Millar upped sticks a few months ago and presented factual programMuster Dogs. And this column was indebted to ABC chairmanKim Williams for showering Millar with praise and pre-announcing that she would take over as host of rural doco seriesBack Roads – months before the ABC publicity department wanted to make the announcement.

Glenday,a frequentABC News Breakfast fill-in host this year,is a presenter without a portfolio as he is finishing up on his ABC Canberra gig for an as yet unannounced new role.

This column previouslytipped ABC journalistLinton Besser forMedia Watch before he was announced as its new host.

Now we hear our November tip that former Nine Entertainment chief executiveHugh Marks is firming to replace David Anderson in the ABC managing director’s hot-seat. So we’re hoping for an ABC hat-trick before the year is out.