• What is Rove McManus' real name ?
One of the most frequently asked questions from online searchers, the answer is John McManus III. |
Below are quotes compiled from various interviews over the years.
Is Rove your real name? "No"
So what's your real name then? "John"
Where does Rove come from? "I don't know. My sister called me that when I was younger and it's what everyone has called me for as long as I can remember. It was just a nickname I was given as a kid and it stuck"
"The belief that I have is the nickname evolved from other nicknames"
"It stuck because when I started performing stand up comedy, I had only just left high school and I didn't want anybody who knew me from school coming to see me when I was very green and not very good, so I performed under my nick name which my family knew me as. I made a name as my nick name so it stuck. It was a very personal nick name less people know me by my real name.
Where did the name Rove come from?
"It's a nickname, but so many people are willing to accept that it's real and that my parents would be cruel enough to name me after a dog or something. When I started performing I didn't want people who knew me from school seeing me when I was still bad, so I used Rove and it stuck"
Transcript of an interview with Rove McManus on 'Enough Rope with Andrew Denton' (2003)
Now, you were not born Rove. You were born John. "Yes"
How did you select it? "Well, I didn't. That was the thing. My sisters gave it to me when I was younger, so I've just grown up being called that by members of my family by my grandmother and my parents."
Why did they call you Rove? "I really don't know. I've never told the story because it's actually so boring for… There's really no story behind it. I think my theory is because I wasn't there to hear how it all happened is that it started off as something else, and just evolved into Rove at the end of it, so they just went, "Right, we'll stop adding to it." Although, even now, as a nickname, people still say 'Rovey' or 'Rovey Povey'.
At the age of 12, Rove appeared in a children's television series titled 'Kaboodle' playing a boy named Marty, in the credits he was listed as 'John McManus'.
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