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The star of the project, Rove McManus, has made a big announcement about his future on the hit Channel Ten current affairs show in a rare interview.
During a candid chat with Jordy Lucas and Alexandria Funnel, the comedian, 50, was asked about his upcoming projects. It's showbiz, the baby podcast.
Admitting that he has a lot of “hardware”, the triple Gold Logie winner joked that his role in The Project will be permanent.
Rowe has had several stints as a guest host on the show over the years and will return once again in 2023, but she doesn't expect it to become a permanent show.
'I am currently working on a project. “I stumbled upon it again,” he said.
“I was asked that it wasn't my decision to come back, I thought I would only be filling in for two months at the end of last year.
So it was like, 'Do you want to continue this year?', and now we're talking about next year.'
In an exciting announcement, he said it will likely become a “permanent fixture on the Friday show” and hopes to bring a lighter touch to the news programme.
The star of the project, Rove McManus, has made a big announcement about his future on the hit Channel Ten current affairs show in a rare interview.
Rowe has had several stints as a guest host on the show over the years and will return once again in 2023, but she doesn't expect it to become a permanent show.
'On Friday I feel like I'm in the project and now I'm becoming a fixture. “I like it,” he continued.
“I'm trying to see if I can do something different with the Friday show, it has a different feel.”
“If that's a permanent position for me now, looking at what next year has in store, it looks like it could be good.”
Given the often fickle nature of the entertainment industry, he said, the permanence the job offers is attractive.
“It's fun to have something full time, but at the same time there's a lot of unfinished business because that's what you have to do in this business,” he said.
“It's complicated because now we live in an industry where you don't have a contract for a show that runs 40 weeks a year. It's news but the project is because it's a little different.
He said job stability in the Australian entertainment industry had declined since hosting his popular variety show Rowe Live in the early 2000s.
“We used to host entertainment shows like ours for 40 weeks a year,” he said.
But in a surprise announcement, he said he is likely to become a “permanent Friday fixture” on The Project and hopes to bring a lighter touch to the current affairs programme.
“Now if we did something like that, it would be 12 if you were lucky, or eight would be a more realistic number.”
The television presenter won three Gold Logies for Most Popular Personality on Australian Screens in 2003, 2004 and 2005, all during her tenure on Channel Ten's Rowe Live.
His record places him among the five stars with the highest number of gold logistics, along with Graham Kennedy, Ray Martin, Lisa McCune, Darryl Sommers and Bert Newton.
