Ian “Molly” Meldrum has supplied a public apology for his onstage antics at Sir Elton John’s Melbourne live performance on Friday evening – whereas blaming the slightly deliberate-looking wardrobe malfunction on a defective belt.
Legendary presenter and music critic Meldrum was within the viewers for Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour when the star paid tribute to him, dubbing him a “national treasure” and thanking him for his “love and loyalty” over time.
Meldrum then appeared onstage, standing subsequent to Elton on the piano as he carried out The Bitch Is Back – earlier than stunning the viewers by dropping his trousers and baring his buttocks.
Photos and video of the incident circulated extensively on social media over the weekend, with many horrified at 79-year-old Meldrum’s behaviour.
Speaking to the Herald Sun, he defined that Elton had no concept he would be 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 instructed the outlet.
And confusingly Meldrum, who might be seen in viewers footage of the incident decreasing his pants earlier than pulling up his jacket to show his naked bum to the gang, insisted the entire revealing incident was nothing greater than the results of a damaged belt.
“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 instructed the Herald Sun, dubbing himself “a naughty boy, who needs a new belt.”
Meldrum and John’s friendship stretched again many years, with common interviews and catch-ups when the Rocket Man music legend visited our shores – nevertheless, the pair hit a well-documented tough patch in 2012, after Meldrum interviewed his pal 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.
Originally revealed as Molly Meldrum’s weird clarification for flashing at Elton John live performance
