Front Royal woman wows national TV audience with her “weird talents”

Molly Mae Meador of Rockland, a 19-year-old Virginia Tech sophomore who decided at a young age that her ambition in life was to become famous, took the first step toward that goal in a “Tonight Show” appearance with NBC star Jimmy Fallon on Monday, August 17.

Two years ago, Molly responded to a “Tonight Show” public appeal for videos showing off “weird talents” of the senders, the weirdest to be selected and shown off by Fallon on whom Molly had developed what could loosely be described as a fixation.

“He is my idol,” she smiled during our interview.

Since 2018, Molly, who is pursuing a double major in Public Relations and Cinema at Virginia Tech, traveled to New York City six times to attend the “Tonight Show” at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

“I was able to talk to him two or three times, though I don’t think he would remember me.” Molly said of Fallon.

That was before last Monday when Fallon and producer Patrick Borelli “called and emailed out of the blue” about her video which, she said, “I hadn’t even told my mom about!”

“Mom” is Regina Meador (dad Doug Meador) of Front Royal, and the “weird talent” the parents never knew she had, was the ability to balance an unwrapped pile of 28 quarters on her collar bone – weird indeed! – and, secondly, to recite alphabetically the 25 song titles of a U.K. musical group named “One Direction” in 30 seconds or less. She gabbled all of them in a Fallon-timed 28 seconds.

Molly Mae Meador addresses national television audience from her bedroom via ZOOM as she demonstrates her “rare talents” to Tonight Show hose Jimmy Fallon. Courtesy Photo

The whole sequence, first practiced with a “fake Jimmy” and connected to the show via ZOOM, was followed by wild applause from Fallon and his supporting crew in an otherwise empty studio due to the Coronavirus pandemic safeguards. The star of the show was quoted as saying Molly’s presentation was “the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.”

During her remote appearance, Fallon spotted a cushion on her bedroom furniture which bore his resemblance. “Nice pillow,” he quipped.

So, what else has this bright young woman to brag about?

“Nothing really,” she modestly responded. “You can call me a Jack of all trades and a master of none – no more hidden talents!”

“Not true” said her mother over the garden fence the following day. “She’s always shown excellent talents in many fields … all the way through (middle and high) school and her first year at Tech,” though she admitted she had no idea about the talents her daughter showed off to a nationwide television audience the evening before.

In the half century that the popular “Tonight Show” has run, we’re venturing a guess that Molly is the first resident of Front Royal to appear on it. Her current goal is, on finishing college, to score a job on NBC, going from there to reach her ambition – fame by running her own television talk show.

Should you wish to follow her path to glory, watch out for Molly on YouTube where she plans to do a talk show while she prepares for her dream job with NBC.