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Full Name: John McManus II
Description: Television presenter, Comedian, Producer, Australia
Known For: Known for television show “Rove” – Australia
Music Styles: Comedy
Location: WA, Australia
Date Born: 21st January 1974
Location Born: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Rove McManus
An Australian television host.
John Henry Michael “Rove” McManus (born 21 January 1974) is an Australian Gold Logie award winning television presenter, producer, comedian and media personality. He is the host of the comedy talk show Rove LA and was also the host of the eponymous variety show Rove, while he is also the co-owner of the production company Roving Enterprises with partner Craig Campbell.
He moved to Melbourne to pursue a career as a stand up comedian in the early 1990’s. In July 2004 he announced his engagement to his girlfriend of five years, Australian actress Belinda Emmett.
They married on 29 January 2005 at the Mary Immaculate Church in Waverley, a suburb in the east of Sydney.
Emmett died of cancer on 11 November 2006 at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales
Rove’s career was put on hold indefinitely. His weekly show Rove Live did not screen its last two planned episodes of the year, due to the death of his wife Belinda Emmett.
Rove returned to TV on 1 April 2007 prominently, as he scored his highest ever audience of 1.69 million viewers.
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.
Most Popular TV Presenter, Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Program and the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. In 2004 and 2005 he repeated his 2003 award haul, and in 2006 he won Most Popular TV Presenter.
Personal life
McManus married actress and singer Belinda Emmett 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.
McManus began dating actress Tasma Walton in October 2007. They married on 16 June 2009 in a private ceremony on a beach in Broome, Western Australia. They have one daughter, Ruby Aurelia McManus, born on 16 December 2013.
He is a supporter of the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League, for which his first cousin and mullets Shaun McManus played 228 games. For three seasons starting from 2003, Rove McManus was the number one ticket holder of the club (a prestigious but largely symbolic position often given to prominent Australians).
On 8 June 2007 he appeared as the presenter of a secondary school discussion at Rod Laver Arena with Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in attendance.