Jimmy Savile

The GD of someone I know wrote to him and asked if he could fix it for her GM to have a weather forecast which was specific to our area and Jim Fix'ed it! I wonder what GM is thinking now? I would be having the heeby jeebies, I think.

Oh - he was a right weirdo. Not sure what good it will do to air it all now - unless the girls themselves might find it useful to have it out in the open. Though maybe the BEEB might learn some lessons from it.
I'm very glad now that my daughter got no response to her letter to him (which began "Dear Jimm'l" - she thought Fixit was his surname!).

Esther Rantzen is quoted in todays Telegraph as saying that mant at the BBC either knew or suspected, but said nothing.

I think I also just heard Eddie Mair (in a trailer for his 5pm prog on R4) that the police did investigate in (I think) 2008, but there was insufficient evidence to bring a prosecution.

I too never did like the man.

I guess they believed the moment had passed for some people who saw how he behaved in the 60s and 70s. It wasn't until the 80s that routine prosecution for sexually abusing teenagers was expected. By that stage, he was beginning to cover his behaviour behind charity work. Women have complained about him and lots of pop stars over the years. Several adult children of show biz people have been convicted of offences against children and downloading abusive images on their computers, behaviour learned from observing their parents bed-hopping with 'groupies' and sharing teenagers around. I can foresee a can of worms being opened here.

There was never any doubt in my mind about his sexual behaviour.

Extremely odd character, not sure that anyone really knew him, and I didn't find him likeable, in fact always rather creepy.

I read about this a while ago [possibly in the Observer as it's the only paper I read] but then it all went quiet again. Maybe Paul Gambaccini was not openly gay at that time [before it was ok to come out as a public figure] and didn't want to draw attention to himself?

Why has this not come out before? It's a pity it had to surface now after his death when he is not here to defend himself if innocent or not here to answer charges if guilty.

Interesting Indy article says that Paul Gambaccini had suspicions long ago. What I would like to know is why he kept quiet. Doesn't that make him complicit?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/paul-gambaccini-claims-sir-jimmy-savile-used-charity-work-to-prevent-sexual-abuse-of-schoolchildren-being-exposed-8191761.html

In the sixties he DJ'd at Belle Vue Top 20 club and after a few years has Ray Teret as his assistant. Both would leave in the Rolls Royce and stop by the gates to let in young girls. I knew one who was 16 and said she was having sex with them in the car. Teret has since been tried for rape and was on remand in prison but I never learned the outcome if the trial. Saville always had a reputation for groping girls.

I must admit I was staggered this morning when I heard someone who used to work for the BBC saying that she had once gone into his caravan and he had a 14 year old on his lap, with his hand up her skirt! I have no idea whether he was "grooming" young girls, but I couldn't believe if that is what she saw, she didn't inform someone about it. If this is indeed true, then the BBC was complicit, in my opinion.

I was never very keen on him either, but only because he came across to me as OTT and a bit pathetic in his later years. He isn't here to answer the accusations, so cannot prove his innocence or otherwise, but of course the media will have a field day.

Listened to Jeremy Vine at lunchtime. Some people who came on the programme seemed to feel that he did so much for charity, and could do no wrong.....then there were two or three who had reason to think otherwise, such as the woman who had interviewed him a number of years ago and who had asked him what he would like in his Christmas stocking. He'd replied, "A little girl".
I never did like Jimmy Savile. There was something about him that made me uneasy.