Sir Jimmy Savile

I could never understand the adulation. As a teenager I found him deeply 'uncool'. All those silly noises, 'Hows about that thens?' and even Churchill didn't wave his cigar up people's noses. My children loved Jim'll Fix It because friends of ours had two boys who were on the programme as Jim fixed it for them to spend a day with a Channel Islands Lifeboat crew (they were farming on Sark at the time). I remember their badges hanging either side of the fireplace.

One other thing I have noticed over the last couple of weeks is that in the media he has gone from "Sir Jimmy Saville" to "Jimmy Saville" to "Saville".

I tended to think of him as 'sexless'; unable to have a proper relationship because of his mum or possibly a closet gay. Now find it very disturbing to realise how totally removed from the facts that was. Having said that, I was watching a programme recently about British groups making it big in America and there was a reference made about 'going looking for virgins' [or something like that]. I saw the programme a while back and the comment just went over my head at the time. What a difference a few months makes.