Rowland Rivron (born 1958) is a comedian, musician, writer and a successful British television presenter. He was raised in Hillingdon, West London. He first came to fame through his appearances as a guest comedy doctor Dr Scrote character on the Jonathan Ross chat show 'The Last Resort' and then 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".

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, and acted as a team captain on Question of TV (all on BBC1) . He is currently appearing in the BBC 1 sitcom Blessed.

His girlfriend in the late eighties was Wendy James of Transvision Vamp. He is now married to Monica and has three children.

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

British television presenters | 1958 births | Living people | Gimme Gimme Gimme actors