back then i thought it was simple
we just had to get the evidence to catch
him
i didn't realize the whole world around
him had to change before the truth could
come out welcome to watch mojo and today
we're discussing the untold story of
jimmy savile for this video we're
looking at the horrific crimes of one of
britain's most beloved and now disgraced
media personalities jimmy savile was a
huge figure
but he was also an enigma have you
watched netflix's docu-series jimmy
savile a british horror story what's
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career in radio and television i like
records
pop music in 1958 leeds native jimmy
savile began his music career as a dj at
radio luxembourg on january 1st 1964 bbc
premiered the first episode of top of
the pops one of their most watched
programs jimmy savile hosted the episode
and would go on to essentially be the
face of the show through july 2006 and
it's coming up not just yet in a second
now savile would go on to host and
present in other bbc shows like time
tease television's young at heart and
clunk click he headed up so many
programs in the bbc welcome indeed to
the first of 19 programs in may 1975
savile got his own show on bbc called
jimmy'll fix it children would write
letters to the show asking if jim would
fix it so they could make their dreams a
reality like driving james bond's car
bbc received thousands of letters every
week and soon millions of viewers were
tuning in people writing
tell jim what they want fixed and he
will make their dreams come true this
made savile a childhood hero to many and
something like a santa claus with all
the wish granting after savile granted
their wish the kids would receive a
coveted medal saying jim fixed it for me
i did think of the crown jewels when i
first got it of course charity
fundraising and volunteer work
savile quickly became a household name
and he used that recognition to
regularly raise money for charities in
the uk in 1968 after years of
volunteering and fundraising at leeds
general infirmary savile asked to become
a porter i work two days a week as a
porter at leeds infirmary it was an odd
request but the hospital took him up on
the offer and he happily transported
patients between wards in 1981 he
established the jimmy savile stoke
mandeville hospital trust and the
leeds-based jimmy savile charitable
trust three years later the charity work
obviously went down very well savile was
appointed as a fundraiser for stoke
mandeville hospital in 1980 and over
three years he raised millions for the
hospital's new national spinal injury
center so i've got time to try and get
hold
of 10 million pounds with the help of my
lovely friends in great britain in 1987
he was appointed to a management board
for the psychiatric hospital broadmoor
despite having no professional medical
experience i have got very formal
qualifications i've been alive for a
long time i've learned a lot of things
for a long time the following year he
was made chair of a task force
overseeing management shockingly he was
given his own rooms and set of keys plus
the authority to make management
decisions savile had unrestricted access
to the entire hospital you do spend a
lot of time in hospitals don't you they
are my
favorite places public image and
celebrity
being a regular face on television
through his hosting gigs and charity
work jimmy savile appeared to be a man
of the people his working-class
background added to his likability and
he charmed his way into the hearts of a
nation ladies and gentlemen
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part of his mass appeal was his peculiar
flamboyant personality he sported blonde
hair tracksuits jewelry and often smoked
a cigar but beneath this eccentric
persona was a sinister pattern of
behavior savile was a prolific predator
hiding in plain sight oh this is lovely
rubbing elbows with the british royal
family certainly helped him maintain his
family-friendly image he became friends
with former prime minister margaret
thatcher who later lobbied for him to be
knighted i thought you were going to fix
my getting into number 10. and despite
hesitation from others savile was
knighted by both the queen and pope in
1990 prince charles of wales came to
savile for advice both on politics and
on his marriage they were asking his
opinion on things personal life
despite being everywhere in the media
sabo managed to keep the details of his
personal life private naturally
interviewers attempted to convince him
to open up about any romantic partners
but were met with savile's usual
distractions and denials we're talking
about a life are we in the 60s and 70s
of lots of lovers oh that's a long time
ago i've forgotten now he was a proud
bachelor and spent most of his time with
his mother agnes whom he affectionately
called the duchess until her death in
1972. when she died yeah you sat with
her yeah
for five days that's what it said in the
papers from the 1970s on rumors began to
spread about jimmy and underage girls
and it became almost a passing joke in
popular culture the only time you punish
yourself is when you are with young
ladies however many people on the inside
knew that there was truth there in 1990
journalist lynn barber interviewed jimmy
savile in a now infamous profile for the
independent where she directly asked him
about the rumors true to his reputation
savile dismissed them it was a very
widespread rumor documentarian louis
theroux brought up the rumors while
interviewing savile for an episode of a
series when lewis met in april 2000.
again savile denied them how do they
know whether i am or not local police
looked into allegations in 2007 and
again in 2008 but concluded there was
insufficient evidence
jimmy savile's death on october 9 2011
jimmy savile died at age 84. the country
mourned their fallen hero and thousands
attended his funeral on november 9th two
days later the bbc aired a tribute
special featuring colleagues praising
the late media personality yeah of
course he was eccentric but he wasn't a
loner he was just an ordinary guy though
rumors were widely spread about savile's
behavior throughout his career it wasn't
until after his death that substantial
investigations were launched in november
2011 bbc's newsnite began an
investigation into savile but before
their findings were broadcast an editor
pulled the plug suddenly
we're told that there's a problem with
our story a few months later the sunday
mirror exposed the axed investigation
investigations
as the scandal grew an itv documentary
in 2012 exposure the other side of jimmy
savile featured accusations of abuse
from several women and then i went to
find my colleague and told him what had
happened and he sort of
laughed about it really as it turned out
however this was just the tip of the
iceberg the bbc and national health
service began their own investigations
we have asked the bbc investigations
unit to make direct contact with all the
police forces in receipt of allegations
and offer to help them investigate these
matters the director general of the bbc
appointed former high court judge dame
janet smith to review savile's
activities while he worked there her
report published three years later
revealed that savile had abused dozens
of people on bbc premises and that some
bbc staff were aware but afraid to
complain to management there were very
few women in management positions
women found it difficult to report
sexual harassment meanwhile police were
also investigating and in november 2012
announced allegations of abuse on a
quote staggering and unprecedented scale
the metropolitan police is coordinating
a vast inquiry
looking into more than 450 allegations
of abuse from 1955 to 2009 savile
assaulted 450 people many of them very
young his growing fame allowed him
access to vulnerable viewers children
and hospital patients we're talking
about people who went in
as
patients
and some of them came out abused victims
he preyed upon young guests and audience
members at his bbc shows top of the pops
and jim will fix it even groping at
least one victim on camera you know it's
a bit like
i don't think i like it savile also took
advantage of patience at the several
hospitals he'd been given access to at
leeds he had his own room and for
broadmoor a set of keys he'd regularly
visited duncroft approved school for
girls where he would take teenage girls
for rides in his car i remember seeing
him driving off with three girls from
the school a year after his death
savile's family members decided to
remove his gravestone from scarborough
cemetery jimmy savile's gravestone was
dismantled and removed having only been
unveiled two weeks ago many of his
honors were stripped charities named
after him were closed down and other
memorials were removed the university of
bedfordshire has withdrawn the honorary
degree it's awarded to jimmy seville
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in the media
a number of books and documentaries have
chronicled jimmy savile's life some
praising the british tv icon others
investigating the years of lies and pain
he inflicted on others i think the jimmy
savile outrage
undoubtedly has a legacy in 2020 the bbc
announced a drama series about the life
and crimes of jimmy savile the reckoning
starring steve coogan is set to release
in 2022 though it has already drawn some
criticism for its subject matter the
purpose of this drama is to explore how
savile's offending went unchecked for so
long on april 6 2022 netflix released
jimmy sabble a british horror story a
two-part docu-series featuring archive
footage of the disgraced media
personality and interviews with
survivors and whistleblowers in all the
media attention surrounding the scandal
it's important to give voices to the
victims something that was not afforded
to them in the past being able to lock
things away
was the way i coped do you agree with
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