Presenters play musical chairs

The face of C4, Jaquie Brown, has resigned from the music channel and is likely to join the reporting team on TV3's Campbell Live.

Brown would not confirm or deny her involvement in John Campbell's new 7pm current affairs show, which starts in April.

But it would not be the first time Brown, Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld, who will produce the show, have worked together.

Brown co-presented Campbell's A Queen's Tour, which Hirschfeld produced for TV3 last year.

Brown says her looming 30th birthday is one reason for her departure from the music station.

"This is just the nature of music TV. It should be ground for people to move on and grow up and I've grown up. I'm 30 this year. You can't say '30' and 'music' and 'youth TV' in the same sentence without sniggering."

She remained coy about her reasons for leaving - as did TV3 and C4's publicity department - saying only that she had an opportunity to "push myself further".

"When you make a decision to leave somewhere that you're completely happy being in, you question it. But you have to try and move on. I've done a lot of music TV, which I've loved, but there's a side of my personality that wants to explore other things," Brown said.

She has been with C4 since the channel started in October 2003. Her involvement with C4 is not completely over. Brown will host C4's new music trivia show, Pop! Goes the Weasel, from March 10.

C4 boss Andrew Szusterman said Brown was the "best talent on TV".

Brown's replacement is Jane Yee, former presenter of TV2's Squeeze, who started on Monday.

Meanwhile at TVNZ, former Flipside presenter Evie Ashton has been named as the new host of TV One's Good Morning show.