onstage at ChillOut Festival in Daylesford, Victoria in March 2022. Personal life Meldrum has an adult adopted son, Morgan Scholes, who lives overseas with his wife, Crystal Scholes, and the couple's son, Meldrum's grandson. Meldrum's younger brother Brian is a former racing writer, golf journalist and editor. His youngest brother Robert is an actor, director and teacher. Although Meldrum was one of the first openly gay TV stars in Australia, he has said, "I had girlfriends. I was engaged a few times." He has subsequently asserted that he is bisexual, although he uses the term 'gay' interchangeably. On 6 September 1976, his home in South Yarra was broken into; the thieves "stole sound equipment valued at $14,000." Shortly before 8 pm on 11 October 1984, while Meldrum was in London to tape interviews with David Bowie, Boy George, and Billy Idol, a fire broke out in a hallway closet at his Richmond residence. The fire spread to the sitting-room, kitchen, and bedroom, with the 'Egyptian room' suffering moderate water and smoke damage. Meldrum's manager Ray Evans said that his personal record collection and an autographed photo of the Beatles were lucky to have survived the fire. Since 1986, he has lived in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in an Egyptian-themed house called "Luxor". According to The Ages Nick Miller, the Nine Network's 2003 celebrity roast, Molly: Toasted and Roasted, was unnecessarily focused on his sexuality. Meldrum was sorry when his family and friends were embarrassed by the poor taste of some comments. However, he replied, "Like a lot of people, I am proud to be gay ... I'm not upset. If Channel Nine want to do gay bashing, so be it." As of December 2011, Meldrum's partner of six years is Yan Wongngam who runs a courier business in Thailand. Meldrum is a prominent supporter of the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL). Storm players continued their 2009 NRL Grand Final victory celebrations at his house in October that year. In 2000 Meldrum co-wrote an autobiography, Some of My Best Friends Aren't: The Molly Meldrum Story with journalist, Jeff Jenkins, which was published by Random House Australia. However, The Age reported on 4 June 2007 that the book had still not appeared. In 2014 he published an autobiography, The Never, Um... Ever Ending Story: Life, Countdown