This is only a fan-site for the star Rove Mmanus,
Born in Perth, Western Australia, McManus grew up in Riverton and attended Orana Catholic Primary School. He moved to Melbourne to pursue a career as a stand up comedian. He hosted The Loft Live on community television (Channel 31) and subsequently landed ten late night episodes of his own tonight show, Rove, on GTV9 in 1999. Channel Nine did not continue with the series.
The Ten Network offered McManus and his production company, Roving Enterprises, another ten episodes of his show in late 2000. The resulting Rove Live became a weekly talk show on Network Ten, and is syndicated on TV3 in New Zealand. The show involves celebrity guests, publicity stunts, comedians and live bands.
In 2002, he was nominated for the Gold Logie Award and Rove Live won the Logie for Most Popular Light Entertainment Program. In 2003, McManus won three Logies, including Most Popular Presenter, Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Program and the Gold Logie for most popular personality on Australian television. In 2004 and 2005, he repeated his 2003 award haul, including winning another Gold Logie.Roving Enterprises has produced a number of other programs including the sketch comedy program Skithouse and the AFL football program, Before The Game. Roving Enterprises has also produced the ARIA Music Awards since 2002, hosted by McManus until 2004.
McManus undertook a live solo stand-up comedy show in 2005, touring the Australian capital cities and Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand, whilst still returning to Melbourne each Tuesday to film Rove Live.
In 2004, he had a fatwa placed on him by John Safran in an episode of John Safran vs God, for dropping Safran's scheduled appearance on Rove Live. It was later removed. He also unsuccessfully campaigned to have Australian Prime Minister John Howard appear on his program during the 2004 federal election. On the 25 October 2005 episode, Rove Live had a segment that Rove himself deemed "controversial" when it aired a live TV vasectomy. For the season finale, he offered six cars as prizes on his show. After falling viewing figures, the show was revamped for 2006, with the first episode of the new show airing on 14 February. In 2006 his long time supporting presenter, Corinne Grant, left the show.
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