News about Jimmy Savile

Yvette (right), 55, who joined Blue Peter in 1987 at the tender age of 18 (left, on the show in 1992), has revealed the Australian pervert assaulted her in a TV studio within two years of starting on the show after she found himself alone with him. At the time Harris (inset bottom) - dead of cancer last year at 93 - was one of the BBC's biggest stars, and it would be another 25 years before he was unmasked as a sexual predator by Operation Yewtree. TV veteran Yvette - who went on to create Most Haunted - says there was a cover-up culture in the TV industry at the time she started - protecting the likes of Harris and Jimmy Savile (inset top), with whom she says she had a 'grotesque' encounter.

The public account was active from 2012 until 2016, but Mark Coteman was not hired by Cambridgeshire Constabulary until 2019. He was this week found guilty of gross misconduct after he sent disgusting messages about Jimmy Savile and ridiculed Harvey, the 21-year-old son of Katie Price, with colleague PC Oliver Austin - who was handed a final written warning. The account, which is in Coteman's name and features photographs of him and his family, was active from 2012 until 2016 and features dozens of sexually explicit, as well as racist, sexist, homophobic and ableist posts which are still viewable today. Posts used slurs to refer to disabled people, including 'r*****' and 'm*****', as well as the homophobic slur 'f*****'.

EXCLUSIVE: PC Mark Coteman (right) and PC Oliver Austin, from Cambridgeshire Constabulary, were found guilty of gross misconduct during a hearing this week. It heard that Coteman, who was previously awarded for bravery after he and colleagues saved the live of a man threatening to jump from a hospital car park, sent messages including a photo of Jimmy Saville with the caption 'Hello Childline, do you deliver?' The pair exchanged messages, sent between July and December 2022, which made fun of people with disabilities, as well as others that were racist and misogynistic.

Steve Coogan (pictured left as Savile and inset at the BAFTAs tonight) has said his nomination for his portrayal of Jimmy Savile (pictured right) in The Reckoning feels like 'vindication' for taking on the risky role. Coogan, 58, is in the running for the leading actor prize at the awards for his role in the BBC drama about how the serial sexual abuser managed to conceal his crimes until after his death in 2011. Arriving on the red carpet tonight, the TV star said 'being acknowledged by the academy feels like a sort of a vindication'. He previously said taking the role was a 'risk', but an important one to ensure that people can learn from the depraved exploitation of power which hundreds of young children were victims of. Since production began in 2020, The Reckoning has been repeatedly questioned for potentially immortalising a serial abuser.

The Saturdays singer, 35, flashed her toned stomach in an elegant pink two-piece ensemble, which showcased her incredible figure.  The chic ensemble consisted of a baby pink cropped blouse with padded shoulders and a matching floor-length skirt which featured ruched detailing at the centre. 

Amber Rose Gill effortlessly turned heads in a revealing dress while heading to the BAFTA Television Awards in London on Sunday. The former Love Islander, 26, displayed her incredible physique as she slipped into a black see-through lace maxi dress which hugged her curves. The very racy number left little to the imagination, as she flashed matching black underwear and bandeau.The TV personality exuded style in the floral number which she paired with fingerless opera gloves.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 37, put on a very leggy display in a satin olive green gown with a daring thigh-high split.

The BAFTA Television Awards 2024 returns on Sunday to celebrate another year of impeccable British TV. Leading the pack in terms of nominations is streaming giant Netflix after its programmes The Crown and Black Mirror received the most nods.  The Crown is nominated for an impressive eight awards while Demon 79 - the fifth episode of Black Mirror's sixth season - follows close behind with seven.

The highly anticipated BAFTA Television Awards 2024 is returning to screens to celebrate another exceptional year for British TV. Netflix's The Crown is leading the pack with the most nods after it received an impressive eight nominations, setting the stage for a thrilling ceremony. The streaming giant's Black Mirror followed closely behind as it has been awarded seven nominations for its episode Demon 79 - the fifth episode in the sixth season.

The BBC 2 presenter has filed a libel claim at the High Court against the former Manchester City player. Mr Vine, 58, says after he was called the term on X, millions of people have read the post which accused him of having a 'sexual interest in children'. Lawyers for the journalist told the High Court their client is bringing defamation and harassment claims against the former Bristol Rovers manager. Mr Barton, 41, used the term 'nonce' to describe Mr Vine in posts on X in January, and refers to notorious paedophiles including Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile. He also refers to Phillip Schofield, the former TV presenter whose career collapsed when it was revealed he was having an affair with a younger male employee.

ROSS CLARK: Labour's plan to take rail franchises back into public hands might be popular with younger voters - but far less so among those of us who remember British Rail. I was not just a passenger on its slow, dirty services in the 1980s - for a couple of years I was employed as an engineer in BR's research department in Derby. When I arrived in 1985, the famous tilting Advanced Passenger Train - the very reason the research department was set up in the first place - was sitting out in the sidings waiting to be scrapped. The project had been held up for years by militant trade unions who insisted that any train travelling over 100 mph should have two drivers. When it was finally introduced on the West Coast Mainline in December 1981, passengers complained of motion sickness.

Influencer Lorna Luxe, 41, was left staggered earlier this week when her husband John, 62, was criticised over their 21 year age gap.  The star, real name Lorna Andrews, took to Instagram to post a video answering questions about their romance - in which she revealed they had been married for 15 years, had the 21 year age gap and purposefully chose not to have kids.  While many lauded her for candour over their romance, a number of cruel social media users criticised her former banker husband for their age gap. 

Audiences have shared their disgust over the paedophile's 'vile' crimes that feature in the Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile documentary after it aired on ITV1 last night, with some claiming the disgraced pop star was 'worse' than Jimmy Savile. Gary Glitter, 79, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980. He attacked two of the girls, aged 12 and 13, after luring them backstage to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers. His third victim was less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.

ROLAND WHITE: With the benefit of hindsight, it's impossible to watch Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile together on television without feeling a bit queasy. 'Do young ladies go to great lengths to get next to you,' asked Savile, in a clip shown on Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile. Just the way Savile says 'young ladies' is enough to make your stomach turn. As it was at the time, to be honest.

EXCLUSIVE: The three-part series Mammoth, starring Mike Bubbins, tells the story of a PE teacher who is accidentally frozen in time in 1979 before being brought back to life in the present day. In the first episode, the main character Toby Mammoth quips 'I have fixed it for you', in a chilling echo of the paedophile's children's show Jim'll Fix It. The children's entertainer was revealed as one of Britain's most prolific sexual predators after his death aged 84 in 2011.

A former police sergeant convicted of possessing indecent images of children is one of four more election candidates dropped by the Reform Party following a Mail on Sunday investigation. Jack Denny, 26, (left) had been selected as a Reform UK parliamentary candidate three years after his jail sentence for separate fraud charges had ended but while he was still on the Sex Offenders Register. Until yesterday, Denny - a former prison officer and police special sergeant in Leicestershire - was running for the Leeds Central and Headingley seat, declaring in his campaign literature that he had 'a background in policing and prisons'.

The BBC Newsnight producer behind the 'car crash' 2019 interview with Prince Andrew has revealed that an 'incredibly crass' quip about Jimmy Savile made in the new Netflix drama of the scandal was 'artistic licence'. Speaking on Channel 5's The Jeremy Vine Show on Wednesday, Scoop author Sam McAlister was pressed on a line in the show where Rufus Sewell, playing the Duke of York, says he was 'close to friends with' alleged child sex offender Jimmy Savile. In the film, Andrew's character is seen insisting he did not understand the fuss about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, adding that he in fact 'knew Jimmy Savile much better'. 

EXCLUSIVE: A community of Catholic monks on a reputably 'holy island' off the coast of Wales is at the centre of a major child abuse scandal going back more than 50 years. Thousands of tourists visit Caldey off the Pembrokeshire coast each year unaware of its dark history of sex abuse against infants as young as three

The damage wrought by two decades of slavish obedience to an ideological cult cannot be overstated. So many children and adolescents have been victims of the trans delusion. They have had their bodies mutilated, their mental health wrecked, their relationships with parents and siblings destroyed, their education shattered -all based on the crazy fallacy that there is any such thing as a 'transgender child' or that it is possible for a prepubescent to be 'trapped in the wrong body'.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince William, who is on light duty at the time, might be ecstatic to hear that he will swerve the Bafta Awards next month. The Crown, Netflix's dramatization of Windsor family life, is up for eight awards, including Dominic West (who played William's father); Elizabeth Debicki (his mother); and Lesley Manville (great-aunt Margaret). Steve Coogan has been nominated for best actor in The Reckoning for his portrayal of Jimmy Savile. William and Harry were given Jim'll Fix It badges by Savile once. The prince may have found it impossible to distinguish gongs.

In the new Netflix film Scoop, Prince Andrew is depicted cracking a sick joke about Jimmy Savile, which recounts the backstory to his infamous 2019 interview with Newsnight. The film, starring Emily Maitlis and Rupert Sewell as the beleaguered prince, recreates the lead-up to the BBC's exclusive interview with Andrew about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York's script, written by Peter Moffat, tells the Newsnight team: "I don't really know why everybody is so fixated on my friendship with Jeffrey Epstein." Jimmy Savile was so much better.' He cracks jokes about his humour.

Prince Andrew makes a gruesome joke about his 'friend,' Jimmy Savile, in Netflix's latest thriller Scoop. The film, which will be released on April 5, recreates the disgraced royal's car crash Newsnight discusses his encounter with jailed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 'I don't know why you're so obsessed with me and Epstein,' says Sun Prince Andrew (played by Rufus Sewell).

Mark Sturgess (pictured) was suspended from his Cambridge Country Club job after he was found to have made "unwanted advances of a sexual nature" to front-of-house Amanda Clark. Ms Clark notified Mr Sturgess, a PGA-accredited golf professional, that he made the lascivious remark to her in the club shop. He was summoned to a discipline hearing, where he was also charged with insulting Ms Clark at 11 p.m. and boasting that a coworker looked like Jimmy Savile. He was dismissed unfairly after being found not to make the 'lick you' comment or the remark about sex predator Savile.

Since winning eight nominations for the TV BAFTAs, the Crown viewers have been left confused as they brand the sixth series'mediocre.' On Tuesday, the TV BAFTA nominations were revealed ahead of the ceremony on May 12, with The Crown leading the way with the most nods in total. However, royal drama commentators have argued that the nods were undeserved as they say he has'fallen downhill' and has become a "snooze fest."