TV3's 7 Days is Getting A New Host

He'll be in the country for less than 48 hours, but Rove McManus has a packed schedule here this month.

The Australian comedian's main priority is taking over Jeremy Corbett's host duties on 7 Days for a night, the first time TV3's Friday night panel show has had a different presenter in seven years.

Corbett is going on holiday, and McManus says he's been drafted in to play ringmaster to the show's "bunch of naughty school kids" for the episode airing on August 26.

The 42-year-old will also present his morning radio show, 2DayFM's Rove & Sam, from here, and he says he may try to sneak in a secret stand-up comedy show.

But there's one thing on McManus' to-do list that he's looking forward to more than all the others: continuing his bromance with John Campbell.

"If I fly to New Zealand and don't catch up with him there's something wrong with the world," says McManus, who has a long-standing relationship with Campbell after several amusing appearances on the now-defunct TV3 show Campbell Live.

He admits the last time he caught up with Campbell, who now works for Radio New Zealand, was under trying circumstances.

"[It] was his final week of Campbell Live. He flew to Sydney for lunch, and flew back in a day. You shouldn't have to take a passport to lunch, but he did, so I owe him a return. I'll pick up the tab," he says.

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