ENGLAND’S JULIE BROWN CLICKS AS AN MTV VEEJAY

Have you seen MTV’s new veejay, Julie Brown?

If nothing else, she represents a lot of firsts for the 24-hour video channel. She’s MTV’s first English veejay, its first black woman veejay and, best of all, the first veejay with anything remotely resembling a good sense of humor. When the MTV publicity brass took her to a recent photo shoot for People magazine, Brown nearly gave one image-conscious MTV exec a heart attack by saying, “Gee, this is my first photo session since that topless one I did for Penthouse.”

When Brown noticed a look of horror sweep across the exec’s face, she quickly added, “Only kidding!”

Actually, Brown, who was in town the other day, did pose as a “Page 3” girl for the London Sun, which runs huge photos of scantily clad lovelies in the paper each day. “They had this very flimsy little nightgown they wanted me to wear,” she recalled. “But I said, ‘Come on, now!’ It was around Christmas, so I got into a Santa Claus outfit instead, with my hair in pigtails and a big, huge baggy suit. It wasn’t very revealing--you could just about see my eyes--but I can safely say, ‘I’ve been in the Sun.’ ”

Brown is no newcomer to video, having been a pop music correspondent and veejay for several British shows. As the new kid in MTV-town, she hasn’t exactly landed a prime air-slot, taking over from 6 to 11 a.m. each day. But she’s not complaining, proudly noting that she’d already been recognized while walking the streets of New York the other day. “Someone who was working in the kitchen saw me in the window as he was rolling some dough and he shouted out, ‘Good luck, girl. Way to go!’ ”

So far, Brown is enjoying America (“Everyone’s so silly”), though she admits that now that she has a steady boyfriend, she doesn’t particularly “fancy” any pop stars. In fact, she’s already mastered the art of interviewing dull, abrasive pop talents. “When I was on the tube in England, we’d have these groups on live, and if they gave me a hard time, or acted terribly bored, I’d just give them a look and say, ‘So, why are you trying to ruin my career, eh?’

“My hardest interview ever was Jermaine Jackson. He was so quiet I didn’t know what to do. He kept looking me right in the eyes and I was afraid to even look down at my notes because I didn’t want to leave his gaze. So I kept staring and staring at him, and finally all I could think of to say was, ‘Right. And how’s Janet?’ ”