Gossip Queen: Mick Molloy warned to lose the wild man look for TV
Footy funnyman Mick Molloy, who has grown a rather luxurious and lustrous beard over the summer, has been gently encouraged by Channel 7 to clean up. So will his facial hair make the cut on The Front Bar launch?
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Footy funnyman Mick Molloy has been told by Channel 7 to invest in a razor and get rid of his whiskers.
Molloy, who has grown a rather luxurious and lustrous beard over summer, was asked by Seven to lose his facial hair in preparation for the annual publicity shoot for his hit show The Front Bar.
Seven Melbourne managing director, Lewis Martin, who is sporting a decent looking beard himself, was charged with gently encouraging Molloy to be less hirsute, reminding him he was hosting the network’s ratings winning footy-tainment show, not auditioning for Outback Truckers.
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“You came in the other day looking a little unkempt and I said to you ‘this is The Front Bar not Swamp People or Outback Truckers’,” Martin told Triple M’s Kennedy Molloy.
“You are on Broadway now, Michael …. Come off the couch and get to work.”
Molloy was naturally a little taken aback with the admittedly tongue-in-cheek approach.
“My beard, which I have grown attached to now, I grew it for eight weeks over summer,” he said. “It feels like part of me now. I am being forced to shave. My overlords at Channel 7 …. they have laid down the law and I have
been told to get to the barber.”
Not wanting to lose his bristles, Molloy and Seven reached an 11th-hour compromise as Thursday’s photoshoot approached, with the wild-man look tamed but not removed.
“He ended up having a trim and a tidy up. It did not all come off,” a source said.
“He was getting so much attention from the girls, he thinks it is a good thing, it is his secret weapon.”
The Front Bar will return on Wednesday, March 20 — with or without the beard.
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