Who wear's naff tracksuits and rapes young girls?

[mudskipper]

Is he still tubby? I've never met him.

Apparently so.

[BrilloPad]

"Jim'll Fix It ran from 1975 to 1994. At its height, the show received 3,000 letters a day from youngsters who wanted their dreams to come true."

How did Jim decide which kids to include on the show?

[OwlHoot]

FS, I just noticed there's an errant apostrophe in the title "Who wear's ..".

That's more shocking than Jimmy Saville groping a few teenage groupies (if he ever did) !

[mudskipper]

FS, I just noticed there's an errant apostrophe in the title "Who wear's ..".

That's more shocking than Jimmy Saville groping a few teenage groupies (if he ever did) !

Yeah, but it's a SimonMac thread.

[palatino winotype]

Yeah, but it's a SimonMac thread.

There's something about that rather revolting looking creature in your avatar that unnerves me. Can't quite put my finger on it but it isn't pretty is it?

[Ignis Fatuus]

I disagree. It matters far more as he cannot defend himself. I was never a fan of him - except his charity exploits. But this is shocking.

Anyway, we all agree its a shoddy piece of journalism so nothing to argue about.

It's shocking if he's innocent. If he's not, it's shocking that it's taken so long.

Try about 3m56 in this TOTP scene. She's 14 and that's not a fatherly embrace.

[Ignis Fatuus]

I have heard some extraordinary things on this site but this takes the biscuit. You ask most women at some point they have been raped. Most of them have never made a complaint.

As for the celebrity bit most of these are odd people with a need for attention. People do not become celebrities by accident and if anything they are more likely to be rapists than anyone else.

I'd like to add my own rather stunned +1 to DA here.

[NickFitz]

For example there's a piece that claims to be a transcript of outtakes from when he appeared on Have I Got News For You with Paul Merton making various allegations, and Ian Hislop backing him up, and Angus Deayton and the floor manager getting nervous because of the show's lawyer freaking out. That was complete fabrication, but it's been cross-posted all over the place. (I was surprised not to see a link to it in this thread.)

And here's a piece all about the fake transcript and its origins back around 1999: Jimmy Savile: The birth of a paedophile hoax on “Have I Got News For You” | SO IT GOES – John Fleming's blog

[SimonMac]

Yeah, but it's a SimonMac thread.

[shaunbhoy]

I do hope they have the story straight. If it transpires that Sir Jimmy is innocent, I hope they all get sued for libel.

That won't happen. You can't libel the dead apparently.