The awards go to stars yet to breakthrough in Hollywood. Chris Hemsworth and Ryan Kwanten will be among the recipients. AIF will also announce at the ceremony the 2010 winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship.

The scholarship, judged by a panel of Ledger’s friends, will go to an Australian actor yet to break into Hollywood.

Source: ABC Online

RoveOnline has a great wrap up of media interviews while he is over there. Including this one from The Edge FM where the host apologises for a previous PR stuff-up with a literal hatchet burying.

Rove who has appeared three times on E!’s Chelsea Lately has reportedly had talks with host Chelsea Handler for a permanent hosting gig.

The Australian chatshow host, who married actress Walton in a private ceremony last June, bought the $1.2 million property just outside Los Angeles to help the couple build successful international careers.

Talking about the country retreat style setting of their new home, Walton told Woman’s Day magazine: “It’s important because the world is so frenetic. I love bushwalking, and Rove’s a twitcher, so I’ve started enjoying bird-spotting, too.”

She added: “More and more, the idea of having a child appeals. And it hasn’t always been that way.”

You can see photos and the full story at the Woman’s Day website.

Hamish and Andy dig deep for Channel 31, kind of. Crikey’s story yesterday highlighting struggling Melbourne community TV station Channel 31’s desperate plight produced instant results, with Austereo comedy duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee kicking in $1,000 for their alma mater shortly after our story went live. But that’s where it ended — sadly, no response has been received from C31’s other glittering graduates, including Rove McManus, Peter Helliar and Corinne Grant. McManus’ manager Kevin Whyte told Crikey that an email received yesterday morning was “the first we’d heard” of the subscriberthon and that he was happy to take out a basic subscription for himself, pending a response from Rove.

Channel 31 has been hit hard by the Federal Government’s mandated switch to digital television and the need to upgrade its studio facilities. Without an immediate cash injection the station could be forced to stick with its second-rate analogue signal, which is being switched off around Australia.

For years, Channel 31 has served as an incubator for talent that has then been poached by commercial networks keen to exploit the youth advertising market, with megastars Rove McManus, Corinne Grant and Peter Helliar all making the jump to the big league.

The question is should the past stars be expected to finanically help the station? Feel free to leave your comments below.

Also an interesting tid-bid from the Crikey story…

Speculation has been swirling for months that Rove will soon stitch up a lucrative Los Angeles-based chat show deal following high-profile appearances last year on the Jay Leno Show.

Updated with video:

According to an unconfirmed television listing, Rove will be making a second guest appearance on U.S comedy talk show Chelsea Lately. The episode is scheduled to be shown this Monday (22nd of February) @ 11pm U.S time.

Guest line-up will also include: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Loni Love & Michelle Collins (subject to change).

Should this information be accurate expect the episode to be shown on Foxtel’s E! Entertainment (Channel 21) soon after.

Rove last appeared on the show in 2009 as part of the shows week in Sydney. Judging by this line-up, Rove will be on the comedian panel which takes up the first two segments, discussing the latest Hollywood gossip. Keshia Knight Pulliam from ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ is the featured guest of the night.

More details should soon appear on Chelsea Lately’s official site.

Head to TV Week’s Website to begin voting, it will be the shows last year of eligibility, so let’s make it memorable.

The NZ Comedy Trust has staged a coup and commandeered the hosting services of the ever charismatic Rove McManus, Logie winner and star of the hilarious TV3 talk show ‘ROVE’

Tickets available from February 4th at ComedyFestival.co.nz and the event will be held at ASB Theatre, Auckland City – Friday the 23rd April, 2010.