Happy New Year from RoveFeed, we are back for 2010, with hopefully some news about Rove! We’ll see what this year brings for Rove and the rest of the team.

The Herald Sun reports on what were Rove’s highlights of the last decade.

ROVE McManus has described his “two wonderful girls”, Tasma Walton and Belinda Emmett, as the highlights of the past decade.

The former TV host, who married actor Walton in June, lost Emmett to breast cancer in 2006 just 18 months after they wed.

“No matter how bad it got, there was always a positive somewhere, a moment where you could laugh,” he said of Emmett’s brave battle against the disease. “Otherwise you fall into a hole. I tried that, and it didn’t work. I came out.” His decade highlights are revealed in Who magazine’s Goodbye to the Noughties special that is released today as part of its Best & Worst of 2009 issue.

Rove has won the 2009 GQ ‘Media Personality of the Year Award’.

Beating out Daniel McPerhson, Shaun Micallef, Tony Jones and Hamish & Andy.

RoveOnline has a gallery of photos of Rove at the Awards. This comes on the tail of his wins last week at the Nick Kids Choice Awards including a win for ‘Fave Aussie’.

Rove will make what looks to be his first major appearance since the end of his show on “Chelsea Lately’ a Los Angeles based talk show that airs on E! (Channel 121 on Foxtel/Austar) both in the US and Australia. It will air this coming Tuesday at 10.30pm AEDST in Australia, US viewers will need to check their guides or the Chelsea Lately website.

His scheduled appearance will be taped in Sydney where the show is broadcasting from Foxtel’s North Ryde Headquarters for the week. We will attempt to find video of the appearance when and if it surfaces.

Rove has finished, for good. The Logie Award winning hit talk show wrapped up for the final time on Sunday Night, with no prior warning. Rumours are now swirling on what he will do next, we of course will keep you updated. For 10 years of entertaining us, we thank him and the entire team.

Take a look in case you missed it, the final moments from Rove.

Below is the official announcement from Roving Enterprises and Network Ten.

Rove McManus announced on-air this evening that his long running talk show, ROVE, would be coming to an end, with tonight’s episode being his last after a record breaking ten year run.

“It was a difficult call to make but after ten years it felt like time to step away from the show and take a break to properly reflect on what I want to do next as a performer.

Rove’s decision came off the back of discussions with TEN over the last couple of weeks.

“The relationship with David Mott and the team at TEN has given us the space to make a show that we are extremely proud of over the last ten years, it is more opportunity than most will ever get. I thank them for their support and hope they have enjoyed the ride as much as I have.”

The strong relationship between Roving Enterprises and TEN will continue to grow with The 7PM Project and Before The Game, both on TEN through 2010.

Network Ten, chief programming office David Mott said, “ROVE has been a big part of the TV landscape and more personally the TEN stable over the years.”

“Our warm thanks and congratulations go to the crew, the cast, executive producer Craig Campbell and of course Rove McManus himself for making a show that’s entertained us and made us laugh week in week out.

“The end of ROVE on TEN does not mark the end of Rove and TEN, a relationship that spans a decade is harder than this to switch off.”

Rove decided to hold off on announcing this decision until tonight so that the audience at home could hear the news from him first. He also wanted to avoid any fuss leading into the finale so that he could focus on the show.

“We only did our tenth anniversary show a few weeks ago, you can only have one flashback episode a year – that’s the law”

“I didn’t want tonight’s episode to feel like the end, I have closed a chapter and after I recover from the wrap party I will work out what’s next. If it is half as rewarding as the last ten years I will be rapt.”

Sydney Morning Herald:

Entertainer Rove McManus is walking away from his self-titled variety television show after three gold Logies and a decade on air.

McManus made the surprise announcement at the beginning of Sunday night’s episode of Rove. “I know we’ve made jokes about this on the show before where I’ve just gone, ‘Oh, I’m leaving’, and it’s was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to come back after the break’. Not this time.

The Age:

At the close of last night’s show McManus said it was not a decision he had taken lightly and that it “just seems like the right thing to do”. “Let me say thank you to everybody who makes this show possible,” he said, adding that the show members were like family to him. “And also to the families it was not my idea to do the weekends.” In a statement he said he did not want last night’s show to mark the end. “I’ve closed a chapter and after I recover from the wrap party I will work out what’s next,” he said.

TV Tonight: (Gallery Retrospective)

[...]He brought with him his mates Peter Helliar, Corinne Grant and Dave Callan. But Nine wanted the fresh-faced host to abandon his pals on air and tried to offer him game shows. As Campbell recently told TV Tonight, “They had weddings and parties, all these ‘great’ formats they wanted Rove to host. He just kept going ‘No not me, no not me.’ To his credit he kept saying ‘Thanks for the offers but it’s not what I want to do, I’m not here to take the money.’”

If you wish to send a goodbye message, the mailing address for Roving Enterprises is below.

Roving Enterprises, P.O Box 212, Richmond. VICTORIA 3121

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Ryan, Monty and Wippa on Nova pranked Rove on Fridays radio show, Ryan is of course Ryan Shelton, a Rove show regular.

Take a listen, it begins around 15 minutes into the podcast.

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