Do we like them?

Do we like Dr Chris Brown?

Our score: 6 out of 10. A clean search on harm and conduct, but too little on the record about his views to score him higher.

This is the Bondi Vet, and he's about to be a lot harder to avoid. On Monday he joins Amy Gerard and Jack Charles on KIIS 1065's Sydney breakfast show, taking the slot Kyle and Jackie O's show left when it aired its final episode on 3 March.

The backstory is a long TV and radio run. He first appeared on TV in 2003 on Harry's Practice, then became a household name with Bondi Vet, and has since done The Living Room, Dancing with the Stars and I'm A Celebrity. Radio began for him in 2008 with vet and lifestyle segments on Triple M and Vega FM, plus fill-in gigs including Triple M Sydney Breakfast.

The only stoush we found is a mild one. Kyle Sandilands said he didn't know Brown well but called him “a bit vanilla” while slamming ARN's rebrand, and Brown hasn't been quoted replying. Being called boring by a shock jock is not a mark against anyone's character.

On the harm check, we looked for anything he's said or done about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, vaccines or the climate, and who he works with. Nothing came up, and we didn't find any controversial company or campaigns. That's an absence of evidence rather than a deep dive into his views, so we won't claim to know what he believes.

On conduct, searches for court cases, lawsuits and accusations turned up nothing about this Chris Brown (plenty about the singer of the same name, who is a different person). Some of what we found was in pages we couldn't open, so treat the clean sheet as 'nothing found' rather than a full audit.

On the good stuff, the sources we could read didn't detail his charity work. Speaker-agency pages list him as an ambassador for Assistance Dogs Australia, but we couldn't confirm that from a dated source. He calls the new job “truly a dream come true”, which is at least a nice bit of enthusiasm for the early start.