Husein Madhavji

Husein "Huse" Madhavji (pronounced Ma-dav-gee; born July 19) is a Canadian actor and television personality. He is best known for his role as Dr. Shahir Hamza on the medical drama Saving Hope and as the former face of Star! Canada’s Entertainment Channel. Madhavji’s roles as an actor include playing Ruptal 1 on HBO Canada's Call Me Fitz and Lt. Col. Max Prakash in Combat Hospital. Husein goes by the name "Huse". Hosting Madhavji grew up in London, Ontario in an Indian Gujarati family who were Ismailis. After graduating from the radio and television arts program at Ryerson University Madhavji moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to take on his first on-air position as an anchor/reporter for A-Channel. From there he moved to Northern California and was a live feature reporter for a short lived show called Good Evening Sacramento before making the jump to Good Day Sacramento for KMAX-TV. After less than two years working in Northern California, Madhavji received a call from CHUM Limited to host Star!’s flagship show Star! Daily in Toronto. Madhavji co- hosted the national program with television personality Dina Pugliese. Together they teamed up fronting various specials including Canada’s New Year’s Eve Bash. In 2007 CTV Globemedia acquired CHUM, and replaced Star! Daily with their own daily entertainment show etalk. Madhavji became a reporter for etalk, continued to front various specials on Star! and joined CP24, a round the clock local news channel in Toronto as their entertainment specialist until CTV decided to stop all production on Star! due to the economic downturn in Canada.