Newly surfaced clip shows Molly mooning

Footage obtained by news.com.au shows Meldrum, 79, pulling the same move in front of a crowd at last year’s ChillOut Festival in Daylesford.Meldrum was an Ambassador for the LGBTQ Festival, and in footage shot by an attendee, he could be seen rising from a seat onstage, pulling down his trousers and slapping his bare behind.The incident took place in March last year – 10 months before Meldrum shocked the crowd at Melbourne’s AAMI Park last week, climbing onstage during Elton John’s farewell concert and pulling down his trousers to moon the audience as John sang his classic hit The Bitch Is Back. Meldrum later apologised for the incident, which he put down to a faulty belt buckle. “I shouldn’t have crashed Elton’s show. As for my performance being more revealing than it should have been … well, at the start of the night, my belt buckle broke and my pants were already falling down. And on stage, one thing led to another,” he told the Herald Sun, dubbing himself “a naughty boy, who needs a new belt.”The previously unseen footage has surfaced after actor Samuel Johnson, who played Molly in the acclaimed 2016 TV miniseries about his life, repeatedly slammed the former Countdown host’s antics this week.In a series of radio and TV interviews, an emotional Johnson insisted it was time for Meldrum to “hang up his hat” and revealed he had never forgiven the legendary music journalist for crashing the stage as he accepted the 2017 Gold Logie for his performance in Molly. Johnson had planned to use his speech to raise awareness for his cancer charity – instead, Meldrum commandeered the microphone and gave a lengthy, rambling speech of his own.“I’m sick of him doing this, I’m sick of it,” Johnson said in a Monday radio interview with 4BC’s Afternoons with Sofie Formica.“He needs to hang up his hat. Now.”He followed it up with a second interview with Jonesy and Amanda on WSFM Breakfast on Tuesday, claiming Meldrum appeared to be “drunk” at the Logies and declaring: “There’s a lot I haven’t said and I’m trying really hard to be diplomatic but I’ve seen this same type of thing happen over and over again.”And in a visibly emotional appearance on The Morning Show on the same day, Johnson revealed he hadn’t spoken to Meldrum since that disastrous 2017 Logies night.“I haven’t spoken to him since the Logies, and I’ll never speak to him again. He cost my charity $1 million at night,” he said, referring to how much money he might’ve been able to raise if he’d been able to speak about his cancer charity during his speech.“Who are his minders? Is he OK? He should not be allowed out in the night,” he continued.However, after that explosive live TV segment, Johnson was reportedly worried he’d said too much. “He was very visibly upset, and worried that he’d gone too far and said too much – and look, he probably did. I suspect he went into a little too much detail, particularly about the drinking,” entertainment reporter Peter Ford, who appeared on the show the same morning, later told news.com.au. “But I think what he said was true and came from a very sincere place.“Even though he’s not talking to Molly, and he says he won’t again, there’s still a level of respect, affection and care for Molly, and concern that Molly is not getting the right sort of supervision and guidance that he should be getting.” Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au