Jimmy Saville is still alive...

On 2nd thoughts, having googled them, don't bother

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23716575

had a moment of confusion, surprise and disapproval yesterday when I got an email from the BFI w/ the subject line "Introducing The Stuart Hall Project"

Deviant lech? Transparently!

Rolf now charged with indecent assault and making indecent images

http://www.alisonjackson.com/wp-content/uploads/rolf5.jpg

sorry

Who next, Morph from Take Hart?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23880768

http://i.imgur.com/lY8t1yC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/30KHWyu.jpg

Hmmmm..

really?

Apparently it is real, was published in 1985

Recently republished under the title "Watch out for the pedo on the cover of this book, oh wait never mind he's dead...".

some good reviews on amazon

Impressively creepy profile of Savile from 2010:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1329332/Jimmy-Savile-Prince-Charles-saucy-French-maids.html

Now, he spends up to three weeks each month wandering hospital wards, flirting outrageously with delighted patients and perching on the edge of their beds, asking:
‘Have you got any clothes on? Could you move over a bit, darling?’

welshgit, wales, 2 years ago
A Great Guy, wish there were more like him on TV these days.

Stephen Holmes, Withington Manchester, 2 years ago
Jimmy Saville is one of our few National Treasures A truly remarkable man

Beth, London, UK, 2 years ago
Bless - he's one of our true eccentrics. Love the story about the Queen :)

the lady....., who sees it as it is!, 2 years ago
god blass you jimmy. you are a legend

KitKat, UK, 2 years ago
Nice to see that Jimmy's still running around fixing things and brightening up peoples lives.

Bob, Manchester, 2 years ago
Good man, has helped people all his life. `The country would be a much better place full of Jim ul fix its. Great character

Daily Mail readers eh?

exactly

and great find, soref

god blass you jimmy, you are a legend

the lady....., who sees it as it is!

`The country would be a much better place full of Jim ul fix its. Great character

Like I know this is obvious but Mail readers (or maybe just commenters) (nah, readers) are such shockingly awful judges of character.

Now steady on there, he might have loved abusing kiddies but at least he didn't hate Britain.

or Thatcher

waiting for the smoking gun that connects her to all of this like a david peace novel or smthng

The Alderman Roberts connection, Perhaps. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/thatchers-dad-mayor-preacher-groper-1257249.html

lol just remembering last autumn when the Savile revelations were coming out, and journos were all 'yeah all the papers knew we just couldn't publish it'. But still cool to publish fawning stories about a guy they know to be a serial sexual predator of children.

The MO for covering people like that, as far as I am aware, is to mention whatever it is they're trying to hide in the most glowing of terms, laying it on as thickly as possible, in the hopes of getting enough of a rise out of the subject that their lawyer can't really help them...

The interview at the end of this has to be seen to be believed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXQ6bgMskpo

"I'm feared in every girl's school in Britain"

8:22 is where it goes down. he's like an object lesson in hiding in plain sight.

yer man on the panel there seems to say something like "it's a Spitting Image nightmare". Spitting Image back in the 80s was the only show i recall ever actually having a pop at him, constantly having the puppet Jimmy refer to himself as "You sad man".

Who are the Fraiser Crane and Johnny Vaughan lookalikes on the panel?

I sort of recognise the JV lookalike but I forget who he is.

Andrew O'Connor

FC lookalike is James Whale

Andrew O'Connor ended up producing Peep Show - at least I think it's the same guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6qfB-Z3mg
"Say everything twice, say everything twice"

aye, this is the one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_O%27Connor_(actor)

i think that's Coogan doing the voice! never twigged that before.

It's Hugh Dennis doing the doctor voice.

i venture Kate Robbins as the nurse too maybe.

That sweatshirt! "I am an animal and I will eat you if I have to" - is that a mid 90s reference I'm missing there or just an utterly bizarre thing to wear on a light entertainment show?

Not a mid 90s reference AFAIK, just an example of the kind of bizarre stuff Savile would have written on his sweatshirts.

I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile

... from 1978

I read the comments thread under there. Why did I do that?

lol @

No wonder his career was over by 1980.

so DLT, Rolf Harris and Ken Barlow are all in court today. wtf.

Dave Lee Travis described as 'opportunist' sex offender
Rolf Harris denies 12 indecent assault charges
Coronation Street's William Roache on trial not Ken Barlow, jury told

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/dave-lee-travis-trial-fame-target-vulnerable-young-women

Grimly banal:

"Another incident took place in Travis's dressing room as he appeared in a pantomime in Crawley in 1991, the court heard, when the DJ pinned a woman up against the door before shoving his hand down her jogging bottoms.

The assault lasted a matter of seconds, the jury was told, before Travis was interrupted by one of the Chuckle Brothers walking past his dressing room."