Jimmy saville : A British Horror Story

He was always like that. My step dad was a bit of musician in his youth…he was from the Leeds/Wakefield area. He came across Savile before he became famous. Savile used to run dances around that area and hired bands.
Much later on, one night Savile was tv when he walked in. I had never heard him swear before, he suddenly went off on one. Calling him everything you can think of and then just saying he was truly evil human being and never, never have anything to do with him.

Also a very long time before it started to come out…a guy I worked with occasionally told me about everything that was going on at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in pretty gruesome detail.
It was almost unbelievable. He wouldn’t tell me who told him.

I believe that his protection came from the fact that he was a pimp and procurer for, well guess who.
 
Jedi boro said:
No I haven’t seen it yet.

I remember at the time that whilst they were working on his tribute show with shane Ritchie down the corridor panorama we’re building their show to bury him.

Btw that shane Ritchie show was incredible wasn’t it. I remember watching it and thinking ooh I don’t think this will ever be repeated.
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I don’t remember it. I doubt I’d have watched something like that.

When I was at school in the early 80s we had a school trip to go and watch Jim’ll fix it being filmed. They only picked the clever kids for some reason and I didn’t get picked - I was gutted and upset at the time.

Thankfully I can see it differently now.
 
Aet290204 said:
I doubt I’d have watched something like that.
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But The true story wasn’t out yet though as I say he was still a national treasure lying in state in Leeds. People were queueing in Leeds to pass by his gold coffin like he was the pope and signing his book of condolence. This actually happened.

As a kid I along millions of others watched Jim’ll fix it so the show was about that with Shane Ritchie sat in his chair reading old letters and interviewing those kids years later. So the tribute was basically a puff piece of how great a bloke he was.

After though the true horror came out and Shane doesn’t talk talk about it now.

It was just so over the top.
 
Jedi boro said:
But The true story wasn’t out yet though as I say he was still a national treasure lying in state in Leeds. People were queueing in Leeds to pass by his gold coffin like he was the pope and signing his book of condolence. This actually happened.

As a kid I along millions of others watched Jim’ll fix it so the show was about that with Shane Ritchie sat in his chair reading old letters and interviewing those kids years later. So the tribute was basically a puff piece of how great a bloke he was.

After though the true horror came out and Shane doesn’t talk talk about it now.

It was just so over the top.
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I remember it now.

I did watch it !!!

😂
 
From the metro at the time

The Christmas swansong of Jim’ll Fix It – in which children write in so that the programme-makers can help them realise their dreams – is being billed as a tribute to Savile , who passed away at the end of last month at the age of 84.

A half-hour edition of the show will be screened on BBC1 and hosted by Richie, despite criticism already mounting from Jimmy Savile fans upset at the idea of the series being revived without its original host.

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changingman said:
I remember an interview with Richard Herring where he mentioned consistent rumours of Saville being a necrophiliac when he and Stewart Lee were at the BBC, apparently they considered using it in a sketch but felt it was too far fetched at the time!
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You mean this sketch

Btw these sketches shows were all made and aired whilst he was alive

 
his prized possession was a hand written letter from mrs thatcher.

As the saying goes evil knows evil
 
Ziggy said:
He was always like that. My step dad was a bit of musician in his youth…he was from the Leeds/Wakefield area. He came across Savile before he became famous. Savile used to run dances around that area and hired bands.
Much later on, one night Savile was tv when he walked in. I had never heard him swear before, he suddenly went off on one. Calling him everything you can think of and then just saying he was truly evil human being and never, never have anything to do with him.

Also a very long time before it started to come out…a guy I worked with occasionally told me about everything that was going on at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in pretty gruesome detail.
It was almost unbelievable. He wouldn’t tell me who told him.

I believe that his protection came from the fact that he was a pimp and procurer for, well guess who.
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I remember similar experiences growing up, family members uncles and aunties switching off the to if he came on going into a big rant about it. Clearly their paths had crossed at some point or they new folks directly who had been effected.
 
Ziggy said:
He was always like that. My step dad was a bit of musician in his youth…he was from the Leeds/Wakefield area. He came across Savile before he became famous. Savile used to run dances around that area and hired bands.
Much later on, one night Savile was tv when he walked in. I had never heard him swear before, he suddenly went off on one. Calling him everything you can think of and then just saying he was truly evil human being and never, never have anything to do with him.

Also a very long time before it started to come out…a guy I worked with occasionally told me about everything that was going on at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in pretty gruesome detail.
It was almost unbelievable. He wouldn’t tell me who told him.

I believe that his protection came from the fact that he was a pimp and procurer for, well guess who.
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Who?
 
Thatcher appointed him to run Broadmoor Prison in 1989!

He had what psychologists call the Halo effect around him, because he raised money for charities nearly everyone believed he was a good person. Possibly odd but good they thought. I remember a Poly lecturer exaplining the Halo effect to me when I was 18. He said imagine a woman with a collecting tin for a charity outside Woolies on Linthorpe Road, what would you say that sort of person is? a very good person I said, could she hurt children and animals and using the tin collection as a screen he said. It always stuck with me. I used the think about it in those Henry Enfield sketches when the Radio 1 DJs would say for Charity.

The music industry in the 1960s and 70s was bad for under age sex and abuse. Didn't one of the Rolling stones have a 13 year girlfriend? Jerry Lee Lewis married a 13 year old.
 
All got hidden and brushed under the carpet in them days.
Pretty sure it was seen as OK by the well connected and upper class as just a bit naughty.
I reckon they all knew what was going on and decided as long as it was kept quiet it was OK
Look at the Catholic Church. I suspect only the tip of the iceburg ever came out.

They used phrases like "strange and complex man" and "manner of life" and "unfortunate revelations"
Those that knew and said nothing perpetuated it and should have stood trial themselves for perverting the course of justice. And there was plenty of them.

www.bbc.co.uk

Thatcher lobbied for Savile knighthood despite warnings

Senior civil servants repeatedly warned Margaret Thatcher about the risks of giving Jimmy Savile a knighthood in the 1980s, government documents from the time show.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
There was an old saying- "Children should be seen and not heard" And this is what happened when kids reported abuse- they were not believed.
 
I watched a program on channel 5 the other week (think it was called National treasure, national disgrace).

It was about Saville / Hall and Harris . They were massive TV icons who got away with it in the 70s and 80s. That's despite numerous aligations at the time.

You watch the clips now and it just looks so creepy knowing what we now know. They are all permanently draped over young looking girls. All played out on TV (BBC). How did we not watch that at it at the time and think 'WTF?'.

The most shocking clip was Rolf Harris going a promotional video for TV about child abuse and how kids can 'say no' to inappropriate requests from adults. It's chilling coming from him with kids sat around him😔
 
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