Jimmy Saville is still alive...

Well some people are saying that he won't be appearing on ch5 celebrity big brother after all...

Davidson arrested.

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"wicked laughs with the ladies"

James Cameron "Jim" Davidson, OBE (13 December 1953) is an English comedian. Despite early recognition and winning many awards throughout his long career, Davidson has become known for his use of jokes about ethnic minorities, homosexuals and disabled people in his stand-up act, which has made him a subject of negative media coverage and frequent criticism.

Another winner, then.

GAH.

'It's only a game, so put up a real good fight, I'm gonna be snookering you, Snookering you tonight!
Snookering you, snookering you tonight! Snookering you, snookering you tonight!'

hahahahahaHA

god, jim davidson, exactly the person you always wanted to end his days humiliated and shamed

i'm kind of surprised you even know who he is

http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/comedian-jim-davidson-says-a-savile-no-2-household-name-celeb-is-about-to-be-revealed-as-a-paedophile/

blogpost seems to have disappeared for some reason but there is still a recipe for sweet and sour pork

Writing on his personal blog, the comic said that the person – who he hasn’t named – is, “A bloke who’s a loner, dresses and acts like a nonce and thinks he is the most important person in the world.”

And of the allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile, Jim said, “Hmmm. I knew… and didn’t do anything.”

He added, “Mind you, I had no proof. To me he was just another pervert. There are lots of them in showbiz.

“There seems to be more gay ones than straight but that’s because there are probably more gays in showbiz than most professions.

“Who’s next to be the victim of a media feeding frenzy? I have the answer to that…

“But, like Jimmy Savile, it’s only rumours. But when these rumours come out… WOW!”

He also slammed the BBC over Monday night’s Panorama, which looked at the corporation’s failure to expose Savile and his alleged child abuse on the broadcaster’s premises.

He wrote, “How come the BBC can make a programme blaming the BBC? It’s like having yourself arrested and then being your own prosecuting barrister!

“The BBC has finally gone mental.

“This hot bed of leftyness has asked itself the question: ‘Should we have known?’ The answer is ‘yes’. We all knew, didn’t we?’’

Really astonishing to me that Jim Davidson is only 59.

really saddened by this, jim was a hero to me when i was a kid

fight the power big man

I suppose the timing of this arrest was rather forced by the scheduled Celebrity Big Brother appearance, although it would have been some awesome next level reality shit if Davidson had been nicked for noncing live on air.

i don't think we want to see live noncing

yeah I can live without that tbh

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guh

seeing some on the buses the other day was a reminder that if you were famous in the 70s and you weren't rogering precocious 14-year-old girls then you were probably considered a bit of a spoilsport.

rogering

rogering some pert little fillies

roger that

anyone actually found guilty of anything yet? /spoilsport

Broadcaster Stuart Hall denies sexual assault charges

We all knew it was bad but...

Shit hits fan, mostly live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20983527

Commander Peter Spindler of the Met police: Savile "groomed the nation".

White haired lunatic in child abuse claims - German edition

Herzog should have taken those indians up on their offer to kill Kinski.

From what i recall, even the heavily edited version of Ich Brauche Liebe had some pretty O_O stuff about children.

i seem to remember a dodgy scene involving Natassja somewhere along the line

... talking of dodgy scenes

Dear BBC

Who exactly was being upset by this caricature?

Kids? They wouldn't even have recognised him when it was originally broadcast.

Adults? Probably.

Would they be even more upsetted by seeing this on all the news programmes? Or is that all right then? And yet the children who weren't awake at before 09:00 on Sunday could quite possibly be awake for the news programmes.

Etc.

probably don't want to be unnecessarily portraying him as an amusing kids presenter now. don't think anybody was especially scandalised, just bookmarking it for the Stalinist video purge

BBC needs to hit back whenever News International report on things like this, because it's blatant trolling/fake 'casebuilding'.

Shorter response: nice tits, The Sun.

i guess the Beeb is like the monarch in these situations, it's pretty much never a good look to respond

There are moments when just putting your hands up and going "we made a dumb mistake, sorry" is the best course of action and this is one of them.

interesting tho the way kids tv writers put these kinds of ideas into the shows as jokes for the parents (also funny that if Theroux hadn't done his show on otherwise-forgotten-about Savile in 2000 he probably wouldn't have been a joke for people to bother referencing much at the time).

There is absolutely no sense in which Jimmy Saville would be or was otherwise forgotten about.

yeah, Theroux's show was great, but it had very little effect on Saville's stature at the time...

It's weird that Jimmy Savile seemed to have been perceived by everyone around him as being so powerful and popular. I don't remember anyone liking him when I was a kid. We all watched Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops but he was just an annoying weird man talking shite in between the good bits.

There is absolutely no sense in which Jimmy Saville would be or was otherwise forgotten about.

There is a sense in that I don't remember him having been on TV much at all for quite a few years prior to the Theroux doc - do correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe the subsequent effect of that show made Savile's profile throughout the 90s seem slighter than it really was (was even Hugh Dennis was on TV much in the late 90s to be leading the regular impressions of him? that feels like a more recent (ie post-Theroux) revival).

Well yeah, his flagship Jim'll Fix It ran 75-96, but it would not have been wise to bet on a random collection of people greeting a Saville impersonation with blinking unrecognition. Which obviously is partly his work - he was first and foremost a cartoon, and happiest that way.

There was a repeat of an old "Have I got news for you", it was pre-olympics as they were discussing the opening ceremony to come. At which point Jo Brand said something along the lines of ".. and just to scare the kiddies, we've dug Jimmy Savile up as well" ...

i guarantee that if anyone realised that re-run had a cod-savile in it there is no way it would have aired. but you can have a "stalinesque rewriting of history" or you can have a few embarrassing moments, you can't have both.

absolutely, i'm all for the odd embarrassing moment personally, depending on context.

Are they melting down his waxwork, or are they moving it into the chamber of horrors next to Hanratty, etc?

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