The Project star Rove McManus has made a huge announcement about his future on the hit Channel Ten current affairs show in a rare sit-down interview.
The comedian, 50, was asked about his upcoming projects during a candid chat with Jordy Lucas and Alexandria Funnell on their That’s Showbiz, Baby podcast.
Admitting that he had many ‘irons in the fire’, the triple Gold Logie winner then teased that his role at The Project could become permanent.
Rove has done numerous stints as a guest presenter on the show over the years and returned once again in 2023, but didn’t expect it to become a more permanent gig.
‘I’m in at The Project at the moment. I kind of stumbled back into it,’ he said.
‘It wasn’t my decision to come back I was asked and I thought I was just filling in for a couple of months at the end of last year.
‘And then it was like: “do you want to keep going into this year?”, and now we’re talking about next year.’
In an exciting announcement, he said he is likely to become a ‘permanent Friday fixture’ on The Project and said he hopes to bring a lighter edge to the news show.
The Project star Rove McManus has made a huge announcement about his future on the hit Channel Ten current affairs show in a rare sit-down interview
Rove has done numerous stints as a guest presenter on the show over the years and returned once again in 2023, but didn’t expect it to become a more permanent gig
‘It feels like the Project and myself on a Friday are now becoming a permanent fixture. I like that,’ he continued.
‘What I’m trying to do is maybe see if we can do something different with the show on a Friday, so it has a different feel.’
‘Maybe then looking at what next year could be with that if that’s now a permanent position for me, which seems like it might well be.’
He said the permanency that the gig offers is attractive, given the often transient nature of the entertainment industry.
‘The fact that there is something full time is fun, but at the same time, I’ve got lots of irons in fires because that’s what you have to do in this business,’ he said.
‘It’s tricky because we live in an industry now where you don’t have a contract for a show that runs for 40 weeks of the year. The Project does because it’s news but it’s a little bit different.’
He said the stability of jobs in the Australian entertainment industry had dwindled since his days hosting his popular variety show Rove Live in the early 00s.
‘Entertainment shows like ours we had 40 weeks of the year,’ he said.
But in an exciting announcement, he said he is likely to become a ‘permanent Friday fixture’ on The Project and said he hopes to bring a lighter edge to the current affairs show
‘If we were to do something like that now it would probably be 12 if you’re lucky, or eight would be a more realistic number.’
The TV host has won three Gold Logies for most popular personality on Australian screens in 2003, 2004 and 2005, all during his tenure on Channel Ten’s Rove Live.
His haul places him in the top five stars with the most Gold Logies alongside the likes of Graham Kennedy, Ray Martin, Lisa McCune, Darryl Somers, and Bert Newton.
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