Actor Samuel Johnson has criticised Molly Meldrum once more over his now notorious speech on the Logies in 2017, within the wake of one other stunt by the star.
During the sixtieth annual Logie Awards, Johnson was awarded the Gold Logie for his portrayal of Meldrum within the miniseries Molly.
In his acceptance speech, Johnson used the platform to lift consciousness for his charity, Love Your Sister, and to thank his sister, Connie, who was battling most cancers on the time and later died.
However, Meldrum, who was additionally in attendance, took the microphone from Johnson and started talking about his personal profession and achievements.
The incident sparked widespread criticism of Meldrum, with many individuals expressing their assist for Johnson and his charity and calling on Meldrum to apologise for his actions.
Now, Johnson has claimed he’s “sick” of the Aussie leisure icon’s shenanigans following final week’s onstage stunt at Sir Elton John’s Melbourne live performance.
Meldrum appeared onstage, standing subsequent to Elton on the piano as he carried out The Bitch Is Back – earlier than surprising the viewers by dropping his trousers and baring his buttocks.
“He needs to hang up his hat. Now,” Johnson advised 4BC’s Afternoons with Sofie Formica.
“They announced my name, my million dollar moment where I was going to plug the charity, and Molly got up and gave me a hat and (what followed was) interminable dribble for about eight minutes. Nobody understood, and he took away my moment.
“And recently, he took away the moment of Elton John as well. I’m sick of him doing this, I’m sick of it, hang up your hat, mate.”
In response to the criticism of his Logies stunt, Meldrum issued an apology, stating that he had not meant to steal the highlight from Johnson or his charity and that he had been caught up within the second.
Meldrum provided a public apology following the Elton John slip-up, blaming the somewhat deliberate-looking wardrobe malfunction on a defective belt.
Photos and video of the incident circulated extensively on social media over the weekend, with many horrified by 79-year-old Meldrum’s behaviour.
Speaking to the Herald Sun, he defined that Elton had no thought he would be a part of him onstage.
“I feel terrible if any of the security people get in trouble. The whole thing was 100 per cent my idea – no one else knew what I was doing. Elton might have been singing The Bitch Is Back but it was more a case of The Idiot is Back,” he advised the outlet.
“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 stated, dubbing himself “a naughty boy, who needs a new belt.”
Meldrum and John’s friendship stretches again many years, with common interviews and catch-ups when the Rocket Man music legend visits our shores – nevertheless, the pair hit a well-documented tough patch in 2012, after Meldrum interviewed his good friend for Seven’s Sunday Night program.
The interview included footage of the singer dissing Madonna as a “nightmare” and “fairground stripper” – feedback he insisted had been non-public and had been by no means meant to air.
He then refused to speak to Meldrum for a number of years earlier than the pair lastly patched issues up once more in 2019.
