John Henry Michael 'Rove' McManus (born 21 January 1974) is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, producer and media personality who has received three Gold Logie awards. He was the host of the eponymous variety show '' Rove'' and the comedy talk show ''

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'', and is the co-owner of the production company

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with business partner Craig Campbell. McManus also hosted '' Whovians'' on the ABC from 2017 to 2020.

Early life

McManus was born in

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, to John and Coralie McManus. McManus attended Orana Catholic Primary School before going through grades 8–12 at Corpus Christi College. He acquired the nickname 'Rove' as a child, from his sister.

Performing career

Live comedy

McManus has performed

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both nationally and internationally, appearing at events such as the 2010 Just For Laughs Festival in

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and hosting the 2013 International Comedy Gala. In 2005 and 2008, McManus undertook live stand-up comedy shows, touring Australian capital cities as well as

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and

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. During the tour, he returned to Melbourne each Tuesday to film ''Rove Live''.

Television

McManus has appeared on '' Good Morning Australia'', '' John Safran vs God'', '' Pulp Sport'', ''

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'', '' The Project'', '' Studio 10'', '' Celebrity Name Game'', '' Have You Been Paying Attention New Zealand?'' and '' Hughesy, We Have a Problem''. McManus's first recorded television appearance was as a child, when he appeared in the ABC television series ''Kaboodle'' as Marty in an episode called 'Marty Makes A Move'. McManus contributed to the production of the animated series '' Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers,'' voicing a character in the 1997 episode 'Monkey See, Monkey Do'. Later that year, McManus began hosting '' The Loft Live'', which was produced by

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's Student television station RMITV for the community television station Channel 31. It was there where he met long-time co-host Peter Helliar. McManus then appeared as a reporter on

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's program ''In Fashion'', hosted by Hugh Jackman. He took an offer from the

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for ten late-night episodes of his own variety show, '' Rove'', in 1999; however, the series was cancelled at the end of its run. In 2000, McManus was offered the opportunity to produce a new version of the ''Rove'' show for

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, launching ''Rove Live''. ''Rove Live'' became a prominent show for Network Ten, seeing broadcasts on TV3 in New Zealand. It followed a variety show format, showcasing weekly celebrity guests, comedy acts, variety segments, local and international comedians and live bands. During the

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and

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federal elections, McManus unsuccessfully sought to have Australian prime minister John Howard appear on his program. While Howard did not appear, then-opposition leaders

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and

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appeared on the show in 2005 and 2007 respectively. After being elected prime minister, Rudd appeared on the show again in 2008 and once more on 28 June 2009. When Bert Newton fell ill in early 2004, McManus was one of many guest presenters who hosted Newton's '' Good Morning Australia'' program, presenting its episodes on 24 April and 12 October 2004. The following year, he and Newton co-hosted a Roving Enterprises television special ''Ten Seriously 40'', a look at the history of the Ten Network. In 2004, McManus appeared in comedian

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's TV show '' John Safran vs God'' in a segment where Safran convinced the controversial UK Muslim cleric

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to put a

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on McManus, showcasing pictures of McManus mocking Islam. The fatwa was later taken off when the pictures were found to be falsified. In 2005, McManus co-hosted the tsunami appeal Reach Out with fellow presenters Eddie McGuire and Andrew O'Keefe on television networks Seven, Nine and Ten. The appeal raised over $20 million for tsunami relief efforts around Asia. A successful appeal, it motivated the trio to host the Logie awards together a few months later. In November 2006, after his wife

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died of breast cancer, McManus took indefinite leave, and ''Rove Live'' did not screen its last two planned episodes of the year. At the time, there were unfounded rumours circulating in the industry that he might quit television for good. He returned, however, in the competitive Sunday 8.30 pm timeslot on 1 April 2007 with a major format overhaul, including renaming the show to simply ''Rove''. ''Rove'' scored its highest ever audience of 1.69 million viewers. In September 2007, McManus made his debut as a game show host in the Australian version of the US game show '' Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?''. On 2 May 2007, 25 July 2007, and 29 October 2008, McManus appeared as a guest on NBC's ''

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'' and as a result had a regular spot on the show. In 2011 he hosted a segment called 'Rove Across America' on ''The Tonight Show''. Jay Leno and Ed McMahon also made a small pre-recorded appearance at the beginning of McManus' shows in Los Angeles giving him tips for the night's show. On 23 December 2008, McManus made his debut as host on American television as the host of an

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special ''The List''. On the 2009 series finale of ''Rove'' shown on 15 November, following several weeks of rumours that the show was going to end, McManus confirmed live on the show that it would be ending with the 2009 finale. He said: 'It's purely my decision. It's not one I've made lightly or flippantly. The timing was right to stop, stand back and see what happens next.' In May 2011, McManus relocated to Los Angeles, California, and landed a hosting role on a new talk show, ''

''. The show debuted on 19 September 2011, on FOX8, with catch-up airings on

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. The show was subsequently picked up for a two-year run. In 2013, McManus featured as a subject in the Australian version of the series '' Who Do You Think You Are?''. McManus has also appeared as a 'Round table' guest on the

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late-night talk show ''

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''. He has also made intermittent appearances on TV3's satirical '' Pulp Sport'' series, usually performing menial tasks for the hosts, 'Bill and Ben'. In 2014, McManus hosted ''

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'', the US version of the French light entertainment improv show ''Vendredi Tout est Permis'' (Friday Anything Goes). In the show, two teams compete on a floor tilted at a 22.5-degree angle. It screened on

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for one season, and the executive producer was

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. On 1 May 2014, McManus appeared on the American comedy show ''

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'', presented by

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. He emerged as the winner, being declared by Hardwick as having won the Internet and being the funniest person in the world for the next 23 and a half hours. In April 2015, the

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in the United States debuted a new show hosted by McManus called '' Lie Detectors'', in which audience members decide which of three comedians is telling the truth. In 2017, McManus presented the new

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panel show, '' Whovians'', to tie in with their broadcast of the tenth series of ''

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''; the show aired on

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. The second season began on 8 October 2018 on

as a companion to the first episode of the eleventh series of ''Doctor Who'', and there was no ''Doctor Who'' series in 2019 so the third series began on 9 February 2020 to tie in with the twelfth series of ''

''. In 2018, McManus returned to Network Ten to host a new panel show, '' Show Me the Movie!''. He also voiced King Tubby, Cheeta, and Last Chance in the kids TV series, '' Kitty Is Not a Cat''. In 2018, McManus was given the greenlight for a new show, ''Bring Back...Saturday Night'', after airing a pilot during

's pilot week. The series premiered on 24 August 2019 under new title, '' Saturday Night Rove''. It lasted two episodes before getting axed, after viewership dropped from 244,000 to 138,000, below the 200,000 viewers cutoff that was set by the network. In 2024, McManus guest starred in the '' Bluey'' episode ' The Sign', voicing a Toy Fox Terrier

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named Bucky Dunstan.

Radio

In 1999, McManus was a regular host on

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radio and had a segment on the breakfast show (starring Wil Anderson and

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) on Friday mornings, ''Know Your Millennium'', a quiz show that looked into the past. In 2000, he filled in on

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's '' Andrew Denton Breakfast Show'' with co-host

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and

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. In 2002,

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commissioned Roving Enterprises to create a weekly radio program starring McManus alongside regular ''Rove'' colleagues Peter Helliar and Corinne Grant; the show was originally called ''Saturday Morning Rove'' and was broadcast on Fox FM every Saturday from 10 am to midday; it was pre-recorded the day before to allow the performers to have a full weekend of other media commitments. In 2004, the program moved to Friday mornings, allowing live phone callers, and was retitled as '' Rove Live Radio''; it was discontinued at the end of 2004. In 2006, McManus and Helliar filled in for '' Merrick & Rosso'' while they were on holiday. In the first week of their three-week stint,

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of Nova 106.9 co-hosted the show as well. In October 2015,

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announced that McManus and Sam Frost would host breakfast on

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with the show titled ''Rove and Sam'', replacing the ailing '' The Dan & Maz Show''. McManus was on a three-year contract beginning from the start of 2016, which included remuneration of shares valued at $350,000 every six months.

Movie work

McManus had a cameo voicing a crab in

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's 2003 animated film ''

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''. He appeared as himself on the New Zealand cartoon ''

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'' and voices a number of characters in

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's '' Exchange Student Zero''. McManus voiced additional characters in ''

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''. In 2014, McManus worked on the film ''Cookies From Outer Space'' with Yahoo Serious.

Roving Enterprises

In 2000, McManus started the production company

; he currently co-owns it with his business partner, Craig Campbell. The company co-produced ''Rove Live'' and produced the AFL football comedy panel program ''

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'' during their runs on Network Ten. It also produces '' The Project''. Past projects include the

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program '' skitHOUSE'', the

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show '' Real Stories'', ''Rove LA'' and, between 2000 and 2004, the hosting and production of the

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Awards and nominations

McManus is a triple TV Week Gold Logie winner for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, winning in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In all he has won 16

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s and been nominated for several others for his work on '' Rove'' and '' Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?''. In 2000 McManus was nominated for 'Most Popular New Talent – Male'. In 2002 he was nominated for the Gold

. In 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, he was nominated for the

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. In 2010, McManus was nominated for the Most Popular TV Presenter and for the Gold Logie.

Charity and community work

Between 2008 and 2010, McManus was a director of the Australian chapter of the conservation charity Fauna & Flora International, for a period serving as the vice-president.

Personal life

McManus married actress and singer

in 2005 at the Mary Immaculate Church in Waverley, an eastern suburb of Sydney. Emmett died of metastatic breast cancer on 11 November 2006 at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney after eight years with the disease. McManus began dating actress Tasma Walton in October 2007. They married on 16 June 2009 in a private ceremony on a beach in

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. They have a daughter, born in 2013."The milestones of a favourite funnyman: fatherhood and turning 40"
''The Age'', 6 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013. He is a supporter of the

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in the

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, for which his first cousin Shaun McManus played 228 games. From 2003 to 2005, McManus held the ceremonial position of the club's number-one ticket holder. McManus is also a lifelong fan of professional wrestling; he interviewed wrestlers

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and

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on his talk show, and has managed wrestlers as part of the former

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promotion. On 8 June 2007, he appeared as the presenter of a secondary school discussion at

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with 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in attendance.

References

External links

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Roving Enterprises website

Rove LA
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