After graduating from
Davidson High School in 1986, Brown attended
Charles Sturt University in
Bathurst, New South Wales, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) Degree. After graduation, she joined
Channel Seven's
Sydney newsroom as an assistant to the chief-of-staff. The first person Brown ever interviewed on
60 Minutes was
Mel Gibson. In 2009, she hosted the
factual television You Saved My Life;
it followed the stories of people who have been rescued in an emergency and reunited with their rescuers. It has a similar premise to the successful
Seven Network factual television series
Triple Zero Heroes. In April 2016, Brown and eight other people (including three other staff members of the Nine Network, David Ballment, Stephen Rice, and Ben Williamson) were arrested on allegations of
child abduction in
Lebanon. Lebanese judicial sources told
The Guardian that the group were to be charged with "armed abduction, purveying threats and physical harm" – crimes which carry sentences of twenty years' imprisonment with
hard labour. She was released from custody only after the Nine Network paid a substantial money settlement to the father of the children, the subject of the attempted abduction. ==Personal life==