Rob Elliott

Rob Elliott was born in 1965 in Brisbane, Australia, and is a popular Australian radio announcer and television show host, best known for hosting Wheel of Fortune.

Television Career

His first TV job was the children's TV program OK for Kids in Brisbane on Channel 9. Then became the Melbourne based reporter for Wombat for the Seven Network during the 1980's. Had several parts in Neighbours and in 1996, he became host of Talking Telephone Numbers (based on a UK format) for the Seven Network.

Then, his career would be recognized thanks to seven years' worth of Wheel of Fortune, from 1996–2003, replacing Tony Barber. He proved to be a hit with the audience.

Since then, he has appeared on other TV shows, not necessarily on Seven.

Trivia

During the mid to late 80's Rob Elliott also worked for Brisbane Radio Station, 1008AM "Stereo 10" as a radio announcer. During this time, he teamed up with fellow announcer, David Daly to entertain young people all over the Great South East of Queensland with their spontaneous and witty humour on a program known affectionately to listeners as the "Boogiecheck." This program ran two times a night, (7pm and 9pm) every week night.

Rob created many voice over characters during the running of the show including, Sir Joh, Bob Hawke and Frank Spencer, but his best and most well known character was "Gus the Cleaner." Gus the Cleaner was a 69 year old radio station cleaner who only had one leg; his other leg was wooden. Gus was also dating an elderly lady known to most listeners as "Granny", a real life grandma who also pretended to have a wooden leg. These two quite often had on air arguments, that sounded real but weren't. The on-air chemistry between Rob, Dave Daly (and his alter ego "Fluffy", who was created as a joke against the puppet from the OK Show: Winky Dink) and Granny, kept young people glued to their radios every night.

Towards the end of the programs reign and the eventual demise of the station, Rob and Dave always found new and creative ways to entertain their listeners, including popular segments like: "Dial a Random Number". The conversations that transpired from these late night phone calls will always remain a part of radio culture. Digital recordings of these radio shows were salvaged recently from audio cassettes and are now available free to the public. (Resource: Pantherslair Productions Australia)

When Rob moved on to Bay FM / 3XY Corio Victoria in 1989/90, he took the "Boogiecheck" along with most of the characters (most notably "Gus the Cleaner", "Jackie Hickinbottom" and "Granny") with him as a nightly on-air segment (2 episodes aired per weeknight - 8.30pm and 10pm) until he left the station a few months later. Some of these rare "Boogiecheck" recordings can be heard at the Facebook group titled "20 Years of 93.9 Bay FM Geelong".

• Rob is known for shouting during his Wheel tenure, as if he's happy the contestant's winning.

• Rob once appeared as a celebrity contestant during John Burgess' 12-year reign as host.

• Rob likes 70's pop culture, mainly in rock music.

Host of Australian Wheel Of Fortune 1997–2003
Preceded By: Tony Barber
Succeeded By: Steve Oemcke