You shouldn't worry about insulting a egotistical sexual predator.

More disturbing is the establishment that sheltered him IS STILL HERE. Let's talk about child abuse current in UK today shielded by the police (for a start).

Working at a hospital to explicitly prey on the helpless is almost comically evil. Like, if you wrote a villain who did that, no one would be able to suspend their disbelief Edit: Nevermind, the world is somehow even worse than I thought

Beloved? Ugh! As a young teens, when this creep visited my school and convinced our heartache we 11 to 16 year olds should do a charity cross country run with him through Roundhay Park, we girls realised what he was like and decided to run in groups at the speed of the slowest in each group. Just as well. Creepy Jim tried his hardest to herd the prettiest girl in each group to run with him solo. Our teachers never believed us when we said we didn't trust him, but we knew what he was. My father had met him previously and also felt he was a "wrong un." He arranged for several friends to be around the park along the route to intervene if necessary. I'm 70 now.and have been a teacher for decades, what Creepy taught me was to accept the gut feelings of children. Kids are often less naive than adults. It was obvious this was a horrible man. I am certain many people in power knew exactly who and what he was. If kids who met him briefly realised, how could they, as adults who knew him well have missed his disgusting innuendos and not have realised what a dangerous and depraved individual he was?

The way her dog looks at her is so sweet and admiring - a ray of sunshine in a serious, well made & heartbreaking video

The thing that pisses me off is people wanna berate the victims and tell them "why they didn't speak on this earlier" or "you're just doing this for attention" Like yeah, these victims of predators like Jimmy Savile deserve attention. Their voices should be heard so people can see this man is truly a sick bastard and i hope he's rotting in hell. His name is Jimmy Sa-VILE for a reason

Every time i revisit this case, i forget how sickening the details are. Shocking how many powerful people are able to get away with having these networks of people under their thumb that are in on their open secrets.

Used to work in healthcare in Buckinghamshire, worked with a lot of people who were working when he'd come and visit children's wards at stoke mandeville etc. All of them said they either got awful vibes or they used to physically hide when he was around. I was too young to be there or really even know who he was, but it blows my mind that such an open secret could go uninvestigated and unpunished for SO many years. So sad.

My dad used to work as a barman around Bradford and encountered Savile a few times in his early days - said he always came across as a nasty creep.

What saddens me is that the views at the time were so pervasively misogynistic that you can hear women laughing when he talks dismissively about women

I had to work on the TV series ‘The Reckoning’ and it was difficult to work on. I was responsible for looking after the unit base and I will never forget the first time I saw Steve come out of the makeup trailer in full makeup and prosthetics, and it was very sinister. It took me a few days to get used to it and I know that it affected Steve greatly with having to portray this monster. I was able to meet some of his victims as they were a pivotal part of telling the story. It’s truly devastating that he never had to face justice for his disgusting actions. My heart and thoughts go out to every single person who was affected by this absolute monster

when my wife was training as a chef in the 90's, she was doing some silver service waitressing for the special Olympics at the Mountbatten centre, here in Portsmouth, and was 19 when she met Saville, when they had the wait staff line up to meet him. From what she's told me, he walked his way down the line being all schmoozy, with the other waitresses until he got to my wife. She cut him a look that basically told him "don't you even DARE speak or even look at me". He quickly moved on. I think it's telling that it's almost like so many people at the beeb seem to know, to the point that John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) of the sex pistols got banned from BBC radio because he was outspoken enough to say that Saville was up to "all kinds of sordid things, and in short tried to warn people that Saville was a paedophile. As much as I dislike Lydon, I love the fact that Saville was at the top of his "people I want to kill" list Saville was an evil piece of filth. I would call him a piece of shit, but that would be an unfair slur on the proud history and nature of faecal matter, everywhere

As a Yorkshire boy and damn proud of it I’m ashamed this monster is Yorkshire born !!! Thank you so much Rachel for covering this difficult topic with such grace and righteous anger !!! The interview with Andrew Neil was very telling in many ways !!! Keep up the fabulous work Rachel …

As someone who made a similar length video last year attempting to wrap my head around the sheer darkness of his psychology, I know exactly how it gets to you. It's really horrible stuff to be reading about and watching interviews and it too affected my dreams. I didn't think to go to the lengths of reading his book, either, so I hope you take a good rest to put it behind you for a bit. My girlfriend grew up in Leeds with her mum a nurse in the hospital there. The amount of anecdotes or stories of things people had seen or heard or had a vague sense of. I think people often look on Savile and act like it's from some other time now. Like the suffering he caused affected people from some different reality that's long gone, but so, so much of it is still felt by so many people today. Whilst I too have a lot of issues with the recent drama I do commend them for including interviews from the survivors.

I think it's possible to feel compassion towards a younger version of a predator. I've heard about so many cases of victims turning into predators and I genuinely wish for a different story each time. I feel sorry for those children, but I don't feel sorry for what they have let themselves become as adults. You are responsible for your actions and your steps towards becoming a healthier person, even if you have been traumatized. Trauma is no excuse for victimizing someone else. This is heavy stuff, Rachel, please take care of yourself. But also, thank you for sharing.

Honestly all those interviews that apparently are meant to be "funny" makes me realize how different the 70s were. Like, sure, once in a while you still see comedy sets with this misogynistic crap, but this is an interview that makes me skin crawl with a laugh track or audience laughing away statements that sound super super creepy without the forced laughter on top of it. Its wild.

I heard someone say on another video that he groomed a nation. It’s true and that’s terrifying. We need to reassess our attitude as a society towards celebrities, hold them account to the same laws we have to abide by.

One of the most astonishing things - and this isn't even just specific to Saville - is that these people PUBLISH their crimes and still nothing happens to them. "I was afraid of getting caught but yet I have documented my crimes and published for all to see," It was the same thing I was thinking when Colleen Ballinger's old stuff was coming to the surface. Like, this stuff was out there. It was in plain sight. Why are we only doing something about it now? Now that people are coming forward, after so so many have been hurt?

its not much of a consolation but the reason Jimmy was asked about a wrestling career is because he fancied himself a wrestler and in 1971 got in the ring with a wrestler named "The Exotic" Adrian Street. Wrestling is "fake" but on this night Adrian was in no mood for the mockery of his business (I dont believe many knew how awful he was at this point). The bell rang and Adrian clocked Savile in the face. In wrestling fans in the know refere to this as a "shoot" as in move or strike thrown to intentionally harm outside the realm of "working" a wrestling match. Adrian proceded to beat the tar out of Savile. and yes. it is all on youtube. feel free to search and enjoy. Adrian has also talked about the incident in interview. RIP Adrian Street 1940-2023

After hearing that book it makes me even angrier at the BBC and all the hospitals and organisations that not only covered up his actions, but aided them! I feel they need to pay out huge fines to all of his victims!

The Royal Family protected that man until the day he died. Just keep that in mind. Thanks for the video, Rachel.

sorry if someone already said this, but yknow how he said something about how he'd take the whole police force down with him? i feel like that's partially why he keeps bringing up all these famous names. not only did he use it as a way to groom kids into being comfortable around him, but every name that he mentions casts a shadow over that person where you now have to wonder how much they knew and whether they were accepting of him AND his acts. he's 'taking everyone down with him'.

I remember when my uni professor said that back when the Yorkshire ripper was at large, they made a mould of Saviles teeth, as bite marks were left on a lot of the female victims. Shows the police knew something was going on for them to even suspect him in the first place...

I was 14 years old living in Leeds. He used to hang around in malls and parks offering us cigarette and booze. We all knew he was a creep and to avoid him but who's going to believe us working class kids over a celebrity. No one.

I love how many cuddly and cute things are around Rachel, because my God you need them when talking about this absolute demon. Love you and Kira! This was fascinating, thank you so much for your brave deep dive. Don't forget that reading, hearing, and immersing yourself in horrible stories like Saville's can be harmful. Take care of yourselves!

I grew up in the 70s, when Savile was at the height of his popularity. Even at the age of six, all my mates and I knew there was something off about him. He was just so creepy.

I'm from Canada so hadn't heard of Jimmy Savile as a kid, but many years ago I watched a bunch of UK Celebrity Big Brother. There was an episode where he comes into the house and "grants wishes" or something. When he came in I got the worst feeling about him, and seeing everyone going along with it was baffling. He does say some gross stuff too but everyone just ignored it, and they were even hugging him?! I thought it was a comedy bit where he's supposed to be disturbing, like Mr. Blobby. (Not sure exactly the context of Mr. Blobby either, but he seems cool.) When the Jimmy Savile news came out I had the same reaction as you where I thought this had been common knowledge. Thanks to my gut for letting me know.

I suppose the fact that he was so obvious about it also stopped people coming forward. A victim of abuse is going to think "Whats the point" when they see these blatant confessions with no consequence.

I know what immediately came to my mind when he talked about sitting with his mother’s corpse and no longer needing to share her with anyone. Whew, that man was disgusting.

something i think it’s just brushed to the side is how much his Catholicism affected his behaviour. the opening about him pissing on his grandmother in church and getting away with it really articulates perfectly his hubris and defiance of any type of order, natural, social or religious. he obviously believed that his acts of charity justified his behaviour, much like how confessing and doing ur hail mary’s absolves you of sins also. the more he paid penance by doing a exhausting marathon, the more in his mind, he was fine in doing what he was doing. it’s a loophole, it’s his way of defying his god. he pisses on his religion his god etc and can get away with it.

I am so ready to hear Rachel's take on Jimmy Savile, I watched the Netflix doc on him and felt like I was missing context. I know Rachel will do the subject justice!

Being French, I'd never heard of Jimmy Savile before and I'm appalled. As always, thank you very much, Rachel, for your work and dedication!

My mum remembers feeling creeped out and unsettled, getting that squirmy eels feeling in her stomach about him before everything came out, and believes in part its because of her unfortunate familiarity with men like him when she was very young that makes her hyperaware of the behaviour as an adult.

A friend of mine had a stay at Stoke MAndeville hospital for back surgery (she's paralyzed from waist down), she was 15 at the time and Jimmy Saville paid a visit. Her mother was advised to stay by her bedside while Saville was there. Her mum thought it was just so she could get the chance to meet Saville!

One of the witnesses said ''There was no talent''.This is true. Why did the BBC go to such lengths to protect a wrongdoer who didn't even have anything to offer?

I didn't know how hard this was for so many in the uk. I brought it up to a friend from Manchester (we were talking Bout current events) and he just looked down, shook his head, and said "I still can't get over that." His face was pure grief.

Imagine a world in which LGBT humans are ostracized and shamed, but power structures support and enable literal child abuse. That is the world we live in. Thank you so much for staring that reality in the face. No one deserves to have nightmares, but with a little knowledge we can create a safer world for everyone.

As a survivor who will never fully come to terms with what happened to me, I offer my thanks to thoughtful people like yourself for highlighting which was and still is an endemic problem in society, in this instance in the media. Often people fail to acknowledge the obvious dark side of so-called "pick up artists" and that they are basically rapists, thank you for including this in your video. I couldn't watch The Reckoning beyond the first 15 minutes, so I'm also grateful to yourself and other KZfaqrs for taking that hit and to Steve Coogan and the team behind the drama for his sensitive portrayal of that monster, and for giving victims a voice. Sadly victims are often forgotten in the glare and speculation surrounding high profile crimes, perpetrated by people like Saville. So here's to all the innocents who suffered and are suffering and here's hoping we find lasting peace and a greater understanding of how we can identify and even prevent further suffering and deal with people like Saville appropriately and swiftly. No one should be above the law, but that's perhaps a story for another day. We can all do our bit, I started by bringing up my son's with the help of their father to respect other people, and I can see that at work in their lives now, the cycle is broken ❤

I watched this with great interest as I was a child of the Savile era, but not just that my dad worked with him at Bradford Pit in Manchester. So, when I was young, if he came on TV, or Cyril Smith, my dad would say "get that paedophile off TV," followed by him getting up and switching channels. I never knew what the word meant and it kind of left me. I remember the several times I watched the Manchester Marathon and he’d grab girls at the side of the road, I thought it was odd behaviour. One Day I was working away in Aylesbury, I was in a restaurant called Carlos's and I heard 2 voices, one I thought I had heard before, but I didn’t turn around to look, when he passed my table he looked over and said, “You are in the company of somebody famous.” I realised who it was and ignored him, this angered him so much he spent all the time moaning to his friend that I had not acknowledged him. When I left I looked across and flipped a ‘V’ at him. After his death I remember the fuss given to him, almost like a state funeral that narked me as being a republican. I hate pomp and circumstances like that. In the summer of 2015 I saw a play at the Park Theatre in London called ‘An Audience With Jimmy Savile’ by Jonathan Maitland, containing research from the book 'In Plain Sight' by Dan Davies, Savile was played by Alistair McGowan and the portrait was so scary, but the most upsetting thing was at the end the number of people sat in their seats crying, I had a lump in my throat and intended to go to a bar after the show before hitting my hotel, I couldn’t do it, I just wanted to lie down.

Thank you for caring Rachel. Love you, Kyra and your content. Great vibes and blessings to you, Kyra and to all of Jimmy Savile’s victims.

Kira heard you worrying about people hearing your stomach growling and decided to help you out with puppy sounds 😂

One of my friend is doing Saville for his History research project so I'll send it onto him

I don't see the point in pathologizing the things that go on in the minds of monsters like Saville. I think the whole idea of ppl being born evil is complete hokum and ppl like Saville are affected by material conditions just like anyone else but, ultimately, he chose to be this. I think the only thing that matters now is remuneration for his victims.

I've taken an interest in this particular unmasking of what was a truly prolific predator in our midst. However, I'm not in any way surprised by how this guy was able to hoodwink and gaslight the public for so long, only to have his absolutely monstrous crimes uncovered after his death. The period during which he was A) at the height of his popularity and power and B) committing his crimes against his victims (crimes committed not with near-impunity, but with absolute impunity), that era was rife with the kind of abuse of a celebrities' position of influence and power. It was endemic to the system. What mystifies me is that we haven't uncovered even more of these predators, because they were not so much a bug in the system as it existed then, they were a feature. These scumbags were an integral component of the celebrity culture that prevailed at that time...and to some extent, still does prevail. Jimmy Savile is merely one of far, far too many who were (and remain) just like him.

Ive been obsessed with Savile recently too trying to figure out how he did this for so long and got away with it As a child growing up in the system i would literally beg everyone i could to write in to jimmy fix it but at the time i was disappointed that no one would to it Now the whole rhing has me scratching my head because now its so obvious when you see it you cant unsee it 😢

Guess who’s back, back again Kyra’s back Tell a friend… Kyra cameos: 39:35

I don’t believe for a second Diana liked that man. She may have tolerated him for Charles, but I don’t think she would have trusted him.

I feel so bad for girls, women, and femme presenting people, especially in the 70s. It seems to come down to pure luck in not coming into contact with predators, because treating women/femmes as less than human was/is the norm. The people who didn't say similar things that Jimmy did in interviews and his book were outliers in his day.

Savile's book reminds me of Humbert Humbert's narration in Lolita, only real. Which is horrifying

"Friends with Margaret Thatcher" BIG 🚩 😅

Rachel you are the most open minded caring woman on youtube he did all his dirty work bhind the scenes he did despicable thing's while all the thing's for charity love you're videos rachel you are not afraid of the tough topics

Personality disorders aren't something you are born with, it's something you get because of trauma and abuse as a child. MENTAL ILL PEOPLE AREN'T "BORN EVIL". It's not his mental illness that made him a predator, it's him not acting to be better. Narcissists, psychopaths, sociopaths, antisocials, they can all be good members of society who don't hurt others. Their brain work differently because it has been harmed in its early development. People do evil because they want to and do not work on themselves. Thinking that evil is born and that evil can only be done by mental ill people will blind you to your own faults and the faults of the people you care about. I'm mental ill, and because I am, everyone excuse my mother's abuse toward me. I have never hurt anyone, I just work differently, but I had to hear again and again how hard it must have been for my mother to raise me and I should think about how it affected her instead of me. It doesn't matter how hard it is for me to survive in a world not made for my brain, because her feelings, as someone seen as mentally healthy, is more important than my well-being. I wasn't born this way (I was still born neurodivergent, the reason why the abuse got worse toward me than my siblings), my mother made me this way, but it's use against me, as if it's my fault I'm being treated this way and I never deserved the same motherly love other children get. Putting mental ill people in those boxes of "evil" lead to treating all of us as inferiors and to children like me, who are raised by parents that refused to show them love because "you are a monster and you will kill us all" (My mother's own words)

There's also a bit where he hints at having it off with his mum. That gives a clue as to why he locked himself in a room with her corpse for 5 days. Also he was seen wheeling a dead toddler into a mortuary after dark, which suggests his depravity truly had no limits.

I think you're so well spoken, you're great at explaining things fully. Watching your vids has honestly helped me with my writing for school

As odd as it may seem, the morbid drive to try and understand or dissect the acts of these type of men makes total sense. It’s a desire to find the pattern, crack the code of cruelty and evil men so that maybe we can spot them sooner next time. Because sadly, inevitably, there is always a next time. But it is out of the spirit or hope of “never again” that we force ourselves to look into these gaping maws of wickedness…

i survived years of abuse and was literally tortured as a patient in several hospitals by many people and i never got any justice, and this case is very triggering to me (so i wont be watching your video...) but i did watch the documentary that came out on netflix i think, and it just infuriates me so much. when he asks the poor child "what did i ever do to you" and the child says "everything" i felt so much pain in my heart for the poor soul it is so heartbreaking

Serial necrophile spent 5 days with his dead mother. Nothing to see here.

So glad to see you. It may be hard video but it should be brought to light. When anyone in power misuses it a lot of lives are destroyed

Having lived in Sheffield and Mexborough, I can also relate to the horror of this massive monster having a Yorkshire accent. Uses *so much* murder/death language about young women too. Sinister.

I'm so glad someone is finally doing a video on Karissa Collins. I've been seeing her on the Fundie Snark subreddit for so long, but there's just almost no videos about her on KZfaq. I know Rachel will do the subject justice, I'm so looking forward to that video.

Hi Rachel! Thanks for the great content. I felt the same but now it's safe to say Savile's legacy is tainted. I take a Pop Culture Uk class in France and when we got to talk about Top of the Pop's, the teacher's face when I mentioned Savile was of pure embarrassment. He acknowledged he was a predator and a disgrace

This is such a dark topic but I’m glad you’re doing a video on it. I watched the tv series that’s been done recently with Steve coogan (my god he was scary, played the role very well, it must’ve been difficult). I’m so glad they gave actual victims screen time too, it broke my heart. I’ve had nightmares about this man for years despite not watching him as a kid (he died when I was like 8, and I know it’s different but I think my version of him is KZfaqrs I loved who were exposed for being predators) but all the things I’d heard about him were enough to give me an idea. The topic triggers me a lot due to past trauma but honestly I think it triggers pretty much everyone because it’s so horrific to think of how it could happen. Hidden in plain sight sort of thing. I’m also glad that the series I watched really pointed out the casual misogyny and creepy comments and actions that were brushed away as ‘oh that’s just what he’s like’. And I’m glad they showed how he used religion as a sort of guise too, and how he was close with mayors, powerful religious people, royals, prime ministers, famous people, and used it all to his advantage to abuse people and then threaten them and gaslight them to try to make them remain silent. It makes me feel ill to think about it but at the same time I feel like I want to know about it if that makes sense

A hometown "hero" turned into a hometown horror for Leeds, where my dad's from.

38:55 obviously this is the least of our issues here, but discos were largely conceived and popularized by queer people of color in the late 60s and 70s, so he most certainly had no hand in any of that

9:45 Great example of "jokes" being confessions.

Jeebus Crisp, he didn’t even hide his depravity. To be able to “joke” about being a child predator, wtf

I’ve missed you!! Thank you for covering these topics with dept!!

I’ve always believed that power inherently creates predators. It’s like it does something to the human mind and brings out all these sick desires and behaviors

This man was so evil and you did an amazing job of explaining all of his actions, however, i don’t think he was hiding in plain sight- i don’t think he was hiding at all- i think he was blatantly doing gross and horrible things, joking about them publicly, and having his powerful friends protect him. That scumbag felt so confident being gross he didn’t even try to hide his behavior.

When people are brave enough to tell about SA commited against them, we owe them the basic respect of believing them, just like we believe people, when they tell us about someone breaking into their home.

Knew someone high up in the hospital he apparently had a "private room" at and could easily get into the nurses offices too

The way Kyra looks at you is far too wholesome for the subject of the video. You did a great job in your research. The fact he got away with it is despicable, and I sorely hope some higher power is seeing he exists in torment on another plane for his crimes.

I was a child of the late 70s-80s, and there was always something that made my stomach turn when he was on the telly. Never watched his programmes then, and even back then adults would say something similar. I have two friends that I know of that were on JFI, they have the badges and everything, both girls. Both of them were not that keen to go on, there parents contacted Jim, there parents made up the “wish” they wanted to come true. I wonder how much of the cover up was because kid’s ill-ease was ignored.

I feel like he's murdered someone. That smug "I knew who had done it, but no-one asked me" sounds like the same kind of almost confessions he makes throughout the book. Do I think he murdered someone at 12 and cut them up? No, but I do feel like he was confessing to something there. Well later he straight up confesses to crimes, the 6 "body guards" thing is disgusting.

so glad you’re back!!

Why wasn't he arrested as soon as the book was published? This should've been viewed as a big red flag.

you do such great work!! thank you for putting in so much time, energy, and passion on everything you do :)

So glad you’re back! I love your make up in this :)

Thank you for covering this. I watched The Reckoning too and am still processing it.

The fact that he specifically targeted children in hospitals and managed to write an entire book bragging about it is… I have no words. I myself had to see a doctor who SA’d me, under the guise of it being a completely normal part of a physical examination of an underage patient. I can understand just how vulnerable you are when there’s such a huge power imbalance between victim and perpetrator, and my heart goes out to everyone who was hurt by him and his friends who helped him cover it up. The fact that he visited the Yorkshire Ripper in prison was a surprise to me, that alone should be a huge red flag, who would voluntarily want to have regular chats with one of the most vile murderers?

it's like this man read lolita and thought it was an instruction book.

Your mom calling him a “ dirty old man “ before it had publicly come out that he was in fact a defendant predator reminds me of the story my mom told me about our former neighbor who ended up being arrested for possession of elicit images of minors . I was a toddler then so I don’t remember it , but apparently she always had a feeling about him and would never let him near me . Even before he was actually put on the registry. Good job mom , if only she felt that way about the teacher who she is friends with who sexually harassed me repeatedly. I told her, but my mom just made excuses for that person.

Hey Rachel! I have a video suggestion because I find the topic to be very important. I don't know if you heard about Pandora Gate but basically some of the biggest Polish KZfaqrs have been exposed for doing horrible stuff with their underaged fans. It's a very big thing on Polish KZfaq right now but it would be good if it got more international attention. It's a scary sytuation because when I was the same age as the victims I also used to watch these content creators and I think many other Polish people my age can relate. (ive benn writeing to several youtoubers with a similar style of content because i just think covering this is really important)

Low key want to just add that my dad used to deliver mail where he lived and all his female colleagues would refuse to go if there were any parcels or things that needed signing for

Thank you for your help with the Kyra pictures Rachel!

What is there left to say about Savile that hasn’t already been said? By the way my own mother changed the channel and called him a pervert too. Turned out, she was right. The BBC knew he was dangerous but they were making too much money out of Savile to get rid of him. By the way, Savile never ran those marathons - he used to run the beginning and the finish, and his driver gave him a lift in the middle.

Im not surprised a book like that would get published. If you listen to the lyrics of a lot of songs from that time seemingly confess a lot of the same things, and they are still played on the radio today. You're not going to get Steven Tyler, Anthony Kiedis or others who are doing the same things calling him out.

If you want to continue on entertainment profiles with victims in the likely hundreds look into the late Johnny Kitagawa. It is bad, he had his own huge talent agency and thus got access to potential victims for more than 50 years.

I don't get why he was ever popular. I think British Rail should have picked Terry Wogan in their adverts instead of him.

Thank you Rachel for this well thought out video about Jimmy Savile. I'm so glad that you put across the point that it doesn't matter whether abuse happened in 70's/80's or even before then, a child is too young to consent. I was sent to a Boarding School in Surry (I grew up in Care) when I was 12 we had Celebrities visit our school, I had no idea who they were at the time, years later when all this came out about Jimmy Savile I realised that it could so eaily have been my school he visited. I almost wrote to him to Fix it for me to see The Osmonds as I was, and still am, a big fan of them. My heart goes out to everyone who was abused by this man, I know what it's like to be a child have that happen to me, just like with me, someone could have done somethig to help me but choose not to because, I beleive they didn't want to get involved, there's no excusing that. A crime is a crime whenever it happened.

A similar thing happened with Don Bourke, an Australian celebrity gardener. I remember telling my mum (I might have been around 6 or 7) that I didn't like him. Mum dismissed it as he became popular around the same time something pretty bad happened to me. Anyway, 25yrs later, people started coming out about how creepy he was.

For what it's worth, I don't associate him with any particular place or region. For me, the worst aspect of this whole affair is the huge number of people who colluded to facilitate and perpetuate his abuse have avoided answering for what they have done. If anything, they're worse than him because they had the opportunity to stop him. Who are they protecting now? How much abuse are they facilitating?

“I believe all girls are 2000 years old when their born” This guy was using the lolicon excuse of the “1000 year old dragon girl who looks 8” all the way back in the 70’s. WTF!

I definitely think he's objectifying the woman who preyed on him as a coping mechanism in adulthood. It sounds like he rewrites history as an adult to try to be the predator so he doesn't have to be the victim. I have all the sympathy you can have for an abused child for him there and I have no complicated feelings for how he talks about her. But that doesn't excuse his later actions

As someone in the U.S., I have never heard of this man. Thank you, Rachel, for bringing attention to this terrible person and the abuse he inflicted on others. No matter how much time has passed, it is vitally important to discuss the atrocities committed. Thank you so much for this work, it’s so important, and I know it’s not easy. You are incredible!

i was born in 1950. My first memory of Jimmy Saville was in the early 1960s at the "Boy's and Girl's exhibition" , where he had silver/black hair. In the 1980s I remember him being interviewed, and saying "when people find out just how much of a crook I've been, they will be horrified".

Regarding the altruism and charity stuff - a lot of narcissists are actually particularly fond of making grand altruistic gestures. Not only does it provide a perfect cover that convinces others that they're super lovely people which makes their victims more likely to be disbelieved if they ever do come forward, but it also naturally results in them being showered with praise and being told how wonderful they are for doing this, and there's nothing a narcissist loves more than attention and adulation.

There’s a dark, disgusting irony to hearing the words “no go area” come out of Jimmy Savile’s mouth.

Bless people like you. I think I’ve heard of you in the video-essayist sphere before, but this is the first video of yours I’ve seen, and I just want you to know how appreciated you spreading this knowledge is. Having someone else tell me about what’s in a book like that seems to allow a level of separation, at least for me, where I can still feel deep empathy for the victims and rage at the criminal monster, but at less of a mental cost then it seems to do to people who do videos on subjects like this. So I just want to thank you again for being a person strong enough and brave enough to put yourself through something like that to disseminate important knowledge like this. Through people like you, greater numbers can learn of these things that have been hidden for too long, even if they may not have the mental fortitude you do.

Kira’s adoring gaze is so cute!❤