Rowland Rivron

Rowland Rivron (born 1958) is a British comedian, musician, writer and a television presenter. He was brought up in Hillingdon, West London.

Rivron first came to fame through his appearances as the comedy character of "Dr Scrote" on the Jonathan Ross chat show "The Last Resort", before appearing on Night Network's "Bunker Show". He developed this into a series for Channel 4 called "Set of Six" about Dr Scrote and his five brothers. In 1989 he starred with Jools Holland in the short-lived series "The Groovy Fellers", and in the early 1990s he presented his own chat show, "Rivron", in which the entire set floated in the River Thames. Rowland also made a memorable appearance in the children's schools BBC TV Series "Cats Eyes".

Rivron played drums on Fat Les's 1998 single "Vindaloo". As one half of the band "Raw Sex" (with Simon Brint), he also featured regularly on BBC TV's "French and Saunders" show. In recent years he has regularly presented television shows such as "Holiday" and "Summer Holiday", acted as a team captain on "Question of TV" (all on BBC1), and was a panellist on the first episode of "Shooting Stars" (BBC2). In 2005 he appeared in the BBC 1 sitcom "Blessed". In 2006, Rowland was part of Channel 4's "Come Dine With Me".

Rowland Rivron currently presents the comedy BBC Radio 2 shows "Jammin'" & "Radio Rivron", and is starring in the Channel 5 programme "Trust Me - I'm A Holiday Rep". He also co-presents the Saturday breakfast show on BBC London 94.9

Rowland was the first celebrity to be voted out on 2007's edition of "Comic Relief does Fame Academy".

In October 2007, Rivron "waded into an unholy row" over plans for a mobile phone mast planned for the tower of his local church in North London. After joining the mass protest, he explained: "It's not really needed... In the good book they turned water into wine and now they're turning masts into misery". The TV star was received enthusiastically by his fellow protesters, with campaigner Paul Barnard commenting: "We were very grateful to Roland Rivron for his support and he managed to cheer people up with his quips and jokes". [http://www.muswellhilljournal24.co.uk/content/haringey/muswellhilljournal/news/story.aspx?brand=MHJOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsmhj&itemid=WeED25%20Oct%202007%2009%3A59%3A22%3A080]

Rivron is married to Monica Appleby and has three children, Daniel, Elisa and Edward.

External links

*http://www.offthekerb.co.uk/artists/a_artists_home.jsp?artist=rowland_rivron
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/communicate/archive/rowland_riv/page1.shtml
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/r/rivron_rowland.shtml
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/holiday/destinations/mallorca_alcudia/index.shtml