He wasn’t revealed, it was a widely known but never spoke of fact. It was only allowed to be “revealed” when he was dead and there was no money to be made from him anymore.
The truth is that he was allowed to get away with it because he was famous and making TV executives rich.
Anyone who lived around Leeds during his heyday knew he was fucked up.
There’s a lot of talk now how “everybody knew”, but it’s not really true. Unless we’re collectively saying the whole country delivered their children to be molested for a giggle.
Nobody or very few “knew”, people certainly had suspicions, and there was conversation about him being a bit of a ladies man, or liking younger women, or even being inappropriate with kids, but the vast majority of people didn’t suspect anything or he wouldn’t have had the opportunities that he had.
John Lyndon is one example of a person taking credit for supposedly warning people a long time ago but his claims were vague enough that he could easily be talking about anything.
That and English libel laws, which were designed to prevent the servants from challenging their abusive betters, and thus are heavily weighted against the defendant to the point where the US refuses to recognise UK libel judgments against its citizens.
There’s a number of British public figures alive today about whom one knows terrible truths will emerge the moment they’re confirmed dead and thus unable to sue.
Another example of how evil the BBC has been, over the years. They literally protected a paedophile for decades.
I thought the BBC was publicly funded, so it’s not?
Either way, covering this up is disgusting and vile, especially since he apparently hosted a kids show
So many people knew. So so many. And after it all came out they were more than happy to blame it all on him and act like he did it all himself. Nobody went down for it, nobody was published for helping him abuse hundreds
This… is a very disturbingly long article… oh jfc, even his sexual abuse has its own article…
This fuck tried his hand at wrestling. The career wrestlers didn’t take kindly to Savile making a mockery of wrestling (British wrestling in those days was brutal and serious) he had his ass handed to him by Adrian Street so bad that he never wrestled again. Adrian Street turned it into a real Street fight.
Amazing how much molestation he did after his death. Another Great British legend. Prince Andrew has a tough time keeping up with Jimmy’s exploits but there’s time yet.
