From an early start playing drums on Blue Peter aged 15, Rowland Rivron has gone on to forge a career of extraordinary breadth and success.
His TV appearances include: Never Had It So Good (BBC 1), You Call the Shots (BBC 1), Extreme Celebrity Detox (Channel 4), Rowland Rivron's Drinking Club (Channel 4), Holby City (BBC 1), the Ben Elton sitcom Blessed (BBC 1); and on radio: Loose Ends (Radio 4), Radio Rivron (Radio 2), a Saturday comedy/chat show for LBC, the drive time show on Virgin Radio, and, of course, Jammin' (Radio 2).
Rowland's many talents include being a writer, presenter, comedy actor and musician. He has performed and written for many of the groundbreaking programmes on British television. As a musician and writer, he has featured on The Tube, The Young Ones, The Comic Strip, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, and with French and Saunders as the charismatic Dwayne, one half of Raw Sex.
Rowland also wrote and starred opposite Jools Holland in The Groovy Fellers, directed by Tim Pope. Through his association with Jools Holland, Rowland found himself playing drums in the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra for eighteen months.
In the 1980s, one of television's finest comedic partnerships was born when Rowland teamed up with Jonathan Ross on The Last Resort. He also worked as Jonathan's sidekick in Saturday Zoo and Tonight With Jonathan Ross.
For three years Rowland was the main presenter on Carlton's London listing show Good Stuff; he's filed reports for Eurotrash, presented Up The Junction from Cambridge, and presented The Bunker show on Night Network, the first 24 hour television in the UK. From the Bunker sprang the ground breaking Riveron, a show that saw Rowland interviewing people in the Thames. Yes, floating in the water!
In 2007, Rowland entered the ultimate celebrity singing contest - Comic Relief Does Fame Academy. Unfortunately, his time in the Academy was cut short as he was the first celebrity to be expelled!
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