If you think Glenn Robbins and Mick Molloy are starting an “intervention” TV show to avoid being grilled themselves, you’d be wrong.
The comedy legends are actually gleeful to have the opportunity to throw each other under the bus in front of a live audience. And we’re lucky for it.
Their new show Glenn & Mick’s Celebrity Intervention sees them pluck your favourite Aussie stars off the street, promising to offer them the help they so desperately need.
Sign up to The Nightly’s newsletters.
Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.
By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.
The pair are putting a fresh spin on the classic good cop, bad cop tactic while delving into the most questionable, never-before-heard stories that decorate the lives of celebrities we know and love.
Stepping up as the subjects of Celebrity Intervention are Guy Sebastian, Tommy Little, Sam Pang, Dr Chris Brown, Carrie Bickmore and Dave Hughes.
Ahead of the pilot landing on Seven on Monday, Molloy promised viewers that his friendship with Robbins would not stand in the way of a good gag.
“During the course of the series, there’s times we have turned on each other and brought a couple of things out of the back catalogue that were sobering to say the least.”
Fresh spin on roasting hot telly
Having crossed paths with Robbins around Aussie entertainment corridors for decades, Molloy knew he would make a perfect counterpart.
“I’ve been pitching ideas to Glenn for ages now. Trying to find the right vehicle, and then this one turned up. So it was a great opportunity to finally do something,” Molloy said.
Glenn Robbins and Mick Molloy Credit: Seven
Robbins called his pal the “ringleader” who “made the show happen from the ground level up”.
In the crafting process, Molloy went back to look at how classic celebrity roasts were conducted — the kind with harsh, career-destroying jokes.
“I was watching old fashioned roasts on the TV. They’re so brutal, made up of one liners at the expense of the guest,” he said.
“It was great to drag the idea of a roast into a modern format, and the modern format is, generally, ‘we’re here to help’, and ‘this is a counselling session’, and ‘we’re on your side’.”
So how do you keep a celebrity smiling while bringing up their most PR-unfriendly moments? Play good cop, bad cop.
“The best way to describe our relationship on-air is good cop, bad cop. We’re trying to get to the same point, but are using different kind of ways of getting there.”
What Molloy loves about Robbins is his commitment to the bit, no matter what.
“It’s pretty easy to sit there and just peel off some material, but no one commits like Glenn.”
Brilliant Bickmore
The show’s recipe calls for talent who can give it back just as good as they are served it. The star of episode one, Carrie Bickmore, did just that.
“Carrie was fantastic,” Molloy said. “She was giving as good as she got.”
And she managed the feat under some trying, but hilarious circumstances. Through undisclosed investigation tactics, Molloy and Robbins present their guest with some of the people closest to them, who know all of their secret flaws.
Carrie Bickmore OAM (VIC) in Canberra. Credit: Martin Ollman/NCA NewsWire
Monday’s episode sees Bickmore’s own son air his humorous grievances, prompting a response that Molloy said was one of the best moments in the eight-episode series.
“She turned on her own son, which for me, is one of the highlights,” he said.
Don’t come away with the impression that the roasting is light, there’s a good char to every angle explored. And, despite what they’ve been through, Robbins and Molloy confirmed all the guests are doing okay in the aftermath.
“There was never an attitude of, ‘I’m gonna get got’. The (guests) knew they were in safe hands,” Robbins said.
All that being said, the pair do have a contingency plan if one of their stars suddenly drops out mid-season.
“I already have about five hours of footage on Glenn I could drop within 24 hours’ notice. I think he’s probably got the same, so it’s probably in case of emergency ‘break glass’,” Molloy revealed.
Maybe someone should drop out.
Glenn And Mick’s Celebrity Intervention is coming to Seven. Credit: Supplied.
These guys need an intervention
Robbins and Molloy aren’t strangers to interventions. They’ve both been the subject of one . . . and they wouldn’t mind holding a real intervention for each other.
Robbins self-confessed that his behaviour on golf courses should be attended to.
“I am prone to do things on a golf course that if the club found out I was doing them, I would probably struck off,” he said.
“I’ve done bad things in golf carts. I’ve done things for bets. I’ve placed golf balls in places that golf balls aren’t meant to be.”
But Robbins said Molloy has a lot to answer for in regard to his own behaviour in the vicinity of golf courses.
“There was a time when we were on a golf trip in Tasmania,” he said. “Of all people, I had to share a room with Mick Molloy.”
“I tend to go to bed about 10.30pm and Mick, he lives an enjoyable life when it comes to a golf trip. I just remember being in my bed, all tucked up, and Mick got back to the room about 2am.
“The only way to get out to the balcony for a fag was past my bedroom. So I was awoken by Mick standing naked, smoking a cigarette outside the door. I go, ‘Mick I didn’t sign up for this’.”
Molloy said he got a good talking to from friends while spending a couple of years in Sydney.
“I remember when I went to do radio in Sydney for two years, my mates accused me of becoming a Sydney wanker,” he said.
“I reckon it’s an Australian tradition to let your mates and your partners and your friends know when they’re getting a little ahead of themselves or they need a slight correction.”
Robbins, who says he gets a mini intervention from Molloy every time they see each other, must agree.
In your hands now
What rings true is that both Robbins and Molloy had an epic time making Celebrity Intervention, and it certainly translates in the show itself.
“I had an absolute ball doing it, and the great thing about working with Mick is that you are in the safest hands,” Robbins said.
“There were times when I went ‘what am I doing’ but I loved it.”
Both Robbins and Molloy are thrilled to be putting up a new show, which they said is not an easy feat in 2026.
“We’re just pretty excited that it’s made it to air, it’s hard to get anything up that’s new,” Molloy said.
“We did eight shows. We were exhausted at the end, but we felt great, and we’re glad we did that, and we hope it works.
“We’ll wait and see. As always, the audience will decide.”
Glenn & Mick’s Celebrity Intervention premieres Monday April 20 at 7.30pm, on Seven and 7Plus.
