Richard Wilkins has tested positive to COVID-19.

The veteran entertainment reporter met with Hollywood star Rita Wilson after her Sydney Opera House performance last week and has since returned a positive result for coronavirus.

Richard Wilkins has been diagnosed with Coronavirus. Credit:Nine

Wilson performed a concert of songs from her recently released fourth album, Halfway to Home to an audience of about 200 people in the intimate Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday night with her husband Tom Hanks in the audience. Wilkins was escorted backstage to meet the couple after the show.

"Richard Wilkins has tested positive to COVID-19. Richard is not showing any symptoms of the virus and has been self-isolating, on his own at home, since Thursday last week," a Nine spokeswoman said.