{"id":553614,"date":"2026-03-20T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:26:32","slug":"jonathan-brown-brain-tumour-announcement-instagram-post-tributes-garry-lyon-james-brayshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553614\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Brown brain tumour announcement, instagram post, tributes, Garry Lyon, James Brayshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFL<\/a> legend Jonathan Brown has undergone surgery to remove a brain tumour.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old took to Instagram on Friday evening to announce the diagnosis, sharing the news with a photo of he and wife Kylie in hospital.<\/p>\n

The three-time Brisbane Lions<\/a> premiership player said the tumour was found after “undergoing a routine scan”.<\/p>\n

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“I was recently made aware of a shadow on my brain that turned out to be a low-grade brain tumour,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I underwent surgery Wednesday with a positive outcome. I understand a surgery of this nature creates interest and once I have recuperated, I will share my experience.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonathan Brown took to social media to announce he’d had surgery on a brain tumour.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

“But for now I need to take some time to rest and recover.”<\/p>\n

Since retiring from football in 2014, Brown has been a prominent commentator with the Seven Network.<\/p>\n

On Friday night ahead of the Crows’ clash with the Bulldogs, several of Brown’s colleagues sent well-wishes.<\/p>\n

“To Jono, his beautiful wife Kylie, their kids and (father) Brian, who will be watching at home, and the brothers, we wish them well from everyone here,” James Brayshaw said.<\/p>\n

\"Jonathan<\/p>\n

Jonathan Brown and Alastair Lynch celebrating the Lions three-peat.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Long-time colleague Garry Lyon with tongue-in-cheek said Brown would be “making a nuisance of himself” to Kylie.<\/p>\n

“We’re throwing our thoughts out to one of our great mates, Jonathan Brown … he’s at home watching this making a nuisance of himself with the beautiful Kylie,” Lyon said.<\/p>\n

“But he’s had a pretty challenging week or so.<\/p>\n

“I spoke to him about two hours ago, he was in the car and full of beans, bouncing around, talking to Kylie and annoying her.<\/p>\n

\"Jonathan<\/p>\n

Brown presented the premiership cup to Harris Andrews, coach Chris Fagan and then-skipper Lachie Neale.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“On behalf of all of us and the broader footy community, there’s been few more popular players than Jonathan Brown and few tougher.<\/p>\n

“We send you our love, big fella. Take it easy, rest up, recuperate.<\/p>\n

“We look forward to seeing your big ugly mug in the not too distant future.”<\/p>\n

Brown played 256 games for the Lions between 2000 and 2014, and presented the Lions the premiership cup after they won last year’s grand final against the Cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL legend Jonathan Brown has undergone surgery to remove a brain tumour. The 44-year-old took to Instagram on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-553614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}