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The Other Side of Jimmy Savile


ITV1, UTV, Wed 3 Oct11:10pm - 12:05am


Repeat: STV, Wed 3 Oct 11:40pm


Repeat: ITV1 +1, UTV1 +1 Wed 3 Oct 12:10am



In life, Jimmy Savile built a reputation as dream-maker, champion fundraiser, and eccentric spinner of discs. In death, his epitaph may prove to contain darker secrets. This ITV investigation will feature women who allege that, when they were under-age teens, they were sexually assaulted by Savile during the 1970s. Savile’s passing means their evidence cannot be subjected to the same robust judicial scrutiny it would have earned while he was alive. So saint or sinner? You, the TV audience, form the jury.


Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas investigates allegations that broadcaster Jimmy Savile, who died last year, sexually abused vulnerable teenage girls at the height of his fame in the 1970s.

Radiotimes

Paul Gambaccini claims Sir Jimmy Savile used charity work to prevent sexual abuse of schoolchildren being exposed

Speaking ahead of a documentary that claims Savile abused schoolgirls, Gambaccini said his former Radio 1 colleague played tabloid newspapers 'like a Stradivarius' in order to keep the abuse secret Independent

Esther Rantzen: Rumours Followed Jimmy Savile
ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen tells Sky News there were always rumours that Sir Jimmy behaved inappropriately with children. sky.com

By Paul Cockerton Mirror

'Disturbing that Sir Jimmy Savile abuse may have been known to bosses': Louis Theroux says his "thoughts are with the victims"

Theroux probed Savile's apparently odd lifestyle for his Weird Weekends series, staying with the presenter for his When Louis met Jimmy programme

By Coleen Nolan Mirror

'I didn't make a fuss.. no one did back then': Coleen Nolan on being 'intimately cuddled' by Sir Jimmy Savile when she was 14

After my experience, I didn’t make a big fuss about it because no one did back then. It was a different world

By Mark Jefferies, Simon Boyle Mirror
SIR JIMMY SAVILE RUMOURS
'I know Sir Jimmy Savile spent night with girl aged 12': Ex-BBC producer claims he challenged star over child sex abuse fears

Meanwhile, a well-known BBC radio presenter told

'You didn't mess with Jimmy': Paul Gambaccini hits out at Savile's power over sex abuse claims as Newsnight faces questions over why it ditched programme into allegations Mail

Jimmy Savile Guardian

Jimmy Savile: Newsnight staff were furious after abuse report dropped

Journalists interviewed 10 victims and witnesses as they looked into allegations of child sex abuse by TV and radio star

Nick Sommerlad, Simon Boyle Mirror
Sir Jimmy Savile allegations: Call for his knighthood to be stripped posthumously over child abuse claims

A Cabinet Office source confirmed the “unprecedented” move will be considered if the claims are found to have substance

By Brian Reade Mirror

Given too much charity: Many of us suspected Jimmy Savile and did nothing

In the 90s Savile used to answer the phone to reporters with the words

By Simon Boyle Mirror
'I saw Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile abusing kids... and another celebrity groped me': New child sex abuse claims bombshell

The ITV documentary was forced to edit out the identity of the third celebrity who is believed to have denied the claim

Liking young girls is not a preference, it's a perversion
Whatever some men may say about Jimmy Savile's behaviour in the 70s, it was wrong then and it's still wrong now


Suzanne Moore Guardian

Freddie Starr loses court gag bid over ‘under-age girl grope’ Sun


By Simon Boyle Mirror
Sir Jimmy Savile claims: Now 40 women accuse him of abuse... and one man claims TV star groped him as a boy too

A respected school tutor told The Mirror he was groped by the late TV star after meeting him on a family outing

If Savile was alive today, he'd be a star witness at Leveson - given the full 'Sir James' treatment and allowed to trash the Press
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Mail

Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile
TV performer is judged on the medium that made him famous in ITV documentary detailing sex abuse allegations
Guardian