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Mick Molloy’s right of reply

Mick Molloy last night returned to Nine's Olympics coverage and finally got a chance to respond to last week's controversy.

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Mick Molloy last night returned to Nine’s Olympics coverage after a lightning fast trip to the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Appearing alongside Leila McKinnon, he finally got a chance to respond to the controversy which had followed him since Eddie McGuire’s cracks on Johnny Weir landed them both in headlines.

“By the way, can I just say… can I address this quickly these allegations of homophobia, that have dogged me in the press for the last 3 days?” said Molloy.

“It’s quite distressing, because those people who know me know there’s not a homophobic bone in my body, it’s just not the way I roll and I never want anything to do with that kind of stuff.

“If you don’t believe me ask my boyfriend. He’s mortified by the whole thing.”

Molloy was up front and sincere with his statement.

Last week it was actually Molloy, on air, who seemed to recognise there was a line about how far to take the joke.

EDDIE: They don’t leave anything in the closet either do they? [Laughs].
MICK: They [laughs], well they — careful you’ll get yourself into trouble there…

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  1. ‘The Mick Molloy Show’ was one of the greatest programs to ever come out of Australia! Please, Nine, give him another go… Maybe on GO?

    I still love Mick.

  2. All the terrible things going on in the world recently and here we are again talking about a very unfunny joke, which is all it was!…and persecuting them for it …think we all need to get some perspective!

  3. I didn’t appreciate his end joke, agree it was like he just negated his previous apology.

    And don’t tell me to ‘get over it’ because it is my opinion and that’s what I felt at the time.

  8. I don’t have a problem with Mick Molloy. He hasn’t always had the best medium for his talent to work in, but he is in my opinion a funny guy. I had no problem with his boyfriend line – it is the sort of comic he is – he uses humour even when handling something infintely more serious. I’m a gay man, I’m not the slightest bit offended by his spiel. I can see that others might. Eddie everywhere is an idiot – he thinks he is an everyman but really espouses nothing of any merit to men or women. The jibes and guffaws at colourful athletes is nothing compared to the vilification on the street and in classrooms that gay men and boy and girls , lesbians and transgendered people encounter on a daily basis. These guys are only perpetuating silliness – nothing more nothing less.

  9. I can’t believe all the attention on Mr Molloy, when it’s obvious “Eddie” is the true problem here and with a majority of Channel nine’s programs. Just goes to show they still have a boys club up at Channel Nine.

  13. Mick Molloy used to be one of the funniest and brightest of our up and coming young comedians, his future looked assured. And then, years ago now, something went terribly wrong. He’s now fallen so far that he has to appear on-air with Eddie the Creep. It’s all very sad.

  15. How is this guy even still on TV???

    Unbelievable…. talk about luck, he has had money thrown at him, and he isn’t even that funny?? I don’t think anyone in the history of Aust TV has had more failures yet it still survives….

  16. what is with Channel 9’s persistance with Mick Molloy anyway? He’s been ratings poison to them with his own shows but they keep asking him back, didn’t he do some commentary thing for the Commonwealth Games as well?

  18. Mick Molloy is an idiot who just can’t help himself. That stupid gag about his “boyfriend” proves how hollow his supposed upset is. Answering criticism for making a homophobic joke by making yet another homo joke is pretty poor form. Not funny, Mick. If this guy was a talented comic, I’d probably find the whole thing borderlin amusing, but he is a desperately unfunny slob who really turns me off.

  21. his joke with the boyfriend fraze wasn’t funny again. he isn’t funny and he shouldn’t be on tv.

    bu the media blew this whole this way out water like usual

  23. Saw some of Mick Molloy on the coverage last night when changing channels. Pathetic. If this is Ch Nein’s poor attempt to HG & Roy-ify the coverage they are sorely mistaken.

    Don’t get me wrong, was a big Molloy fan back in the days of The Late Show, but from what I saw last night his appearance on the coverage is unfunny and unneeded.

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