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* Brooke Vandenberg ( Jane Kennedy ) is a reporter on Frontline.

She is ambitious, amoral and publicity hungry.

While there are constant rumours that she has affairs with male celebrities in order to build her profile, in some cases she simply creates the rumours herself ; in The Desert Angel ( series 1 ) she confesses to Pat Cash that she started a rumour about having an affair with him.

Like most of the employees of Frontline, she has no ethical problems with any action the show takes to get a good story.

She is, however, portrayed as being very hypocritical ; in The Invisible Man ( series 1 ), she has no issues with violating peoples ' privacy when she runs a story using a hidden camera to catch shoplifters in a store change room, but is outraged when a rival network violates her own privacy in the same way when broadcasting a similar story.

Brooke is also very vain, and tends to edit her stories to give herself as much screen time as she can manage.

When a new segment producer edits footage of Brooke out of a story in I Disease ( series 3 ), she becomes upset to the point where she demands that the producer be fired for it.

In A Hole in the Heart, Brooke discovers she is pregnant to a former boyfriend and is bribed into having an abortion by a new hosting offer.