Revealed: Sir George Young’s application form for job of Tory Chief Whip

SIR George Young is the Tory Party’s new Chief Whip. He replaces Andrew Mitchell, who resigned for swearing at police guarding Downing Street. What are Young’s credentials for the post? We’ve seen his application form:

Q. Do you own a bicycle?
A. Yes, I am the “bicycling baronet”.

Q. Are you a toff?
A. I went to Eton?

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Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment

So. You got this Jimmy Savile tattoo

JIMMY Savile’s legacy: The tattoo can be fixed with long socks and garters. (A few tweaks and it’s Lady Gaga puffing a spliff.)

Jimmy Savile sends ripples through cement industry
The Jimmy Savile doll on sale in Butlins?
Jimmy Savile in FHM: ‘Lock up your daughters’

Jimmy Savile legacy: Cannock’s Gym’ll Fix It health clubs
Jimmy Savile auction – string vests, Shag Wagons and gold up for sale
Jimmy Savile auction – string vests, Shag Wagons and gold up for sale
Jimmy Savile: Margaret Thatcher, miners and a themed Range Rover
Dear Jimmy Savile, thanks for the Michael Jackson tickets
Jimmy Savile’s ‘Benjamin Rabbit and the Stranger Danger – What a child needs to know about strangers’
Jimmy Savile: The soap on a rope, a board game and tickets to take children all over the country
Buy Jimmy Savile’s Jim I’ll Fix It chair for £15,000

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Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Can George Osborne blame Jimmy Savile for his train debacle?

CAN George Osborne blame Jimmy Savile, the late BBC presenter for leading him astray?

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Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)

Jimmy Savile legacy: Cannock’s Gym’ll Fix It health clubs

JIMMY Savile’s legacy continues to impact on the living. We spot the Gym’Ll Fix It Health Clubs in Cannock. Cannock Community Centre, Avon Road, Cannock, Staffordshire. It’s open to “youngsters”…

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Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comments (3)

This leaked BBC e-mail exposes Newsnight’s decision to spike Jimmy Savile story

WHY did the BBC’s Newsnight show cancel its investigation into Jimmy Savile? Newsnight, the BBC’s in-depth late-night news show, at first ignored the story that every other news organisation was leading with. On Newsnight for days there was no word on the Peado King who had attacked underage girls in his BBC Top of The Pops studio and beyond, as is alleged. When Newsnight fianlly featured the story, BBC Radio 4 DJ Eddie Mair was drafted in to host a chat. We were told that Newsnight did not run the item for “editorial reasons“. What reasons? Dunno. The  show that likes to unleash Jeremy Paxman on politicians, to skewer them with hard questioning, sardony and heckling, left it that that. Newnight then produced the greatest line uttered on TV this year:

“The BBC declined to appear in his live discussion.”

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Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)

Jimmy Savile: Margaret Thatcher, miners and a themed Range Rover

JIMMY Savile Watch: In this video Jimmy Savile continues to hide in plain sight, as he tells BBC’s Have I Got New For You that he would do anyone in the back of his van would let him. This is Jimmy Savile, pal to Tony Blair, Prince Charles and Margaret Thatcher, who, it is thought, misunderstood Sir James when he said his mission was to f**k “minors“. (See Scargill, Arthur.)

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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Esther Rantzen: If Jimmy Savile doesn’t bury her husband’s daughter might

ESTHER Rantzen. If one thing can be blamed on Jimmy Savile’s perversion it is that he got Esther Rantzen back on the news cycle. She said of Savile:

“We all blocked our ears to the gossip.”

She says:

“It would be such a great shame if all that work was sabotaged by this. My concern is for the children who are suffering and other survivors who need support…I would be very, very distressed if people lost confidence in me, particularly if people working with children lose confidence in me, but I’m told that everyone who works at whole-heatedly support me.”

That’s Esther Rantzen who set up ChildLine in 1986, a confidential phone service for under 19s to open up about abuse.

Reader AGW writes:

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG – “Smelly Old Git” to his more mature victims – was not alone. Others covered up because of easy sexual favours, career ambitions or fear of disclosure.

There are other forms of predatory sexual abuse and career leg ups:

The reference below dates eight years after the fact. Eight years of clandestine bumping the uglies or as Wilcox described his soirees with Rantzen “urgent” talks.

That’s life: Esther Rantzen broke my mother’s heart

The Wilcox children were less than amused. If there had been a Childline then – and knowing what the principal’s principles were – they may have not used it.

Wilcox was high up at the BBC. He died before Savile.

In 2001, Olga Craig wrote:

IT was a callous moment of contempt: the instant when the years of dislike Esther Rantzen had harboured for her husband’s ex-wife, Patsy, boiled over into public vitriol. Within a month of her former rival’s cremation Esther, seated next to her step-daughter Cassandra, Patsy’s daughter, gleefully answered a quiz question which asked what had recently burned in Richmond. “My husband’s ex-wife,” Esther shrieked triumphantly.

Cassandra Wilcox, Desmond Wilcox’s daughter by his first wife Patsy, claimed: “It was the moment I became aware of the extent of Esther’s bitterness towards my mother.”

Esther and Desmond’s love began as an illicit affair.

Through access to her mother’s unpublished manuscripts she tells how Patsy felt Esther had stolen her husband and “gushingly publicised every detail of her marriage” to Desmond. Describing how her parents met as cub reporters, Cassandra says Desmond first met Esther when she joined the BBC. She and Patsy worked together and Patsy invited her home to meet “this fantastic guy I am married to”.

Esther visited so often that Cassandra called her “Aunty Esther”. But when Patsy found out that she was having an affair with her husband and asked how she could do it, she alleges Esther said: “May I please remind you that you said I could not only join the queue but I should go to the front. That is exactly what I did.”

Desmond left Patsy and his children to live with Esther – although he came back briefly, only to leave again. Revealing how she first met Esther when she visited the couple’s flat in Chelsea, Cassandra says it was the only time Esther ever made her a cup of tea. “She was quite open about the fact that she could not cook, use a vacuum cleaner or sew. She never needed to. She had become a star and had her own domestic staff”…

Patsy was so traumatised by her husband’s desertion that she had to be admitted to Charing Cross Hospital. While there she bought a flat in Richmond and Desmond and Esther, who were looking after the children, moved into the family home at Kew…

Patsy wrote in her manuscript: “Sometimes when I leave my BBC office on a cold, wet evening to come home to my little flat, I have to walk past Esther and her children. They will be waiting for a chauffeur-driven car to take them home. To what was my home”…

Patsy, Cassandra says, never found happiness after Desmond left her. In turn, she says, Esther always felt bitter towards Patsy. “When I ask myself why,” says Cassandra, “my only answer lies in something my mother wrote in 1977: ‘I dislike her for the pain and distress she has caused people I love dearly. I know it may sound odd, but that includes my husband. If Esther is a real person she will find it difficult to find total happiness at the cost of what it has taken to get what she wants.”

Good old Esther…

Photo: 1978: Emily Alice sleeps through it all but her first public appearance in the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, is a smash hit with her parents Esther Rantzen (37), presenter of ‘That’s Life’, and BBC Executive Desmond Wilcox (46). The baby weighed 7lb 4oz.

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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Jimmy Savile sends ripples through cement industry

JIMMY Savile: the ripples are felt in the cement industry:

Jim’ll Mix It is a leading supplier of concrete in London. With over 20 years of experience, products and services to suit any size job and state of the art equipment you can be sure of quality service.

Savile’s coffin was, of course, encased on concrete.

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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Jimmy Savile’s ‘Mrs Fix-it’ Janet Cope reveals the callous laughing man she knew

IN “MY 32 YEARS WITH SAVILE”, the Daily Mirror looks to have a scoop. Did Sir James Savile have a lover? Did he fancy older women and underage girls and boys? Dunno. All we get is Janet Cope, 70, Jimmy Savile’s former PA. Jimmy Savile gave her away at her wedding. She’d asked him to. She said of the big day:

“It was a super day, absolutely lovely. Jim always had to be the centre of attention, but I was happy to let him enjoy it. I thought it was funny.”

Janet Cope spoke with the Daily Mail in 2011. The paper says Cope and Savile worked together for 28 years, a relationship began in 1971. Highlights are:

Janet Cope: “I’m a better person because of Jimmy. He taught me so much about how to fight for what you believe in, because that’s what he always did. He helped so many people in his life, and I’m proud to have been part of that.”

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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)

The Beastie Boys never met Jimmy Savile – but Jimmy Page got name checked

WERE The Beastie Boys right about Jimmy Savile  Page?

If I played guitar I’d be Jimmy Page The girlie’s I like are underage…

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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Jimmy Savile was the self-declared Paedo King who ‘inappropriately pulled’

JIMMY Savile news from the BBC on twitter:

BBC #Newsnight’s investigation into Jimmy #Savile was “inappropriately pulled” – UK Culture Secretary Maria Miller

After that unfortunate choie of words, we hear from Kevin Cook, now 45, who says that when aged 9 Savile molested him on a Jim’ll Fix It show. Cook says Savile told him:

“Are you ready to earn your badge?”

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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Jimmy Savile in FHM: ‘Lock up your daughters’

WHEN Jimmy Savile appeared in FHM, the magazine mocked up a headline: “Lock Uo Your Daughters”…

Add it to the collection.

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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Jimmy Savile: ‘I’m feared in every girls’ school in this country’

JIMMY Savile appeared on the BBC’s Have I Got New For You. The transcript was a hoax. What he said wasn’t: “I’m feared in every girls’ school in this country.”

Not to mention every ward, studio, dressing room and morgue…

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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

The Jimmy Savile doll on sale in Butlins?

IS that the Jimmy Savile doll on sale at a Butlins holiday camp? Buy one and get a free book?

Spotter

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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment

‘Jimmy Savile had sex with dead bodies’ says star’s former employer

JIMMY Savile had sex with dead bodies? The rumour has been around for years. Now, however, it’s become a newspaper fornt-page headline. The Sunday Sport yells: “Jimmy Savile had sex with dead bodies.”

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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)

Jimmy Savile: Claire McAlpine, George Carman QC and police collusion

JIMMY SAVILE is on two front page this Sunday:

Daily Telegraph: “SAVILE: The police blunders.”

Blunder is kind. Why not collusion?

The Sun: News that as many as 60 girls may have a case against Savile.

Such a shame, isn’t it, that the Sun never had access to Savile’s mobile phone. We might then have found out who aided and abetted Savile. All we have now are the victims and news about who failed to protect them. But we want names, don’t we. We wants to know who knew; who helped; who joined in.

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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Jimmy Savile’s last words for fellow hated DJ Lord Haw Haw

JIMMY Savile or William Joyce, the wartime Lord Haw Haw – which of them United Kingdom’s most despised DJ?

When Lord Haw Haw signed off, his last braadcast went:

“We are nearing the end of phase one in Europe’s history, but the next will be no happier…I can only say that the people of Britain deserve what they get… You may not hear from me again for a few months…I say ‘Es lebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! And farewell!'”

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Posted: 13th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Jimmy Savile: If only he’d swung his axe like Jimmy Page at Lori Maddox

THE media is great, isn’t it. The very people who say ‘how dare the tabloids not go after a breathing Jimmy Savile’ are the ones who say the tabloids should not publish half truths and be subject to strict guidelines and even stricter libel laws. ‘Jimmy Savile must never happen again,’ they say. ‘Journalists should be licensed,’ they say.

The big problem with journalism is when the writers are fans. Take Jimmy Page, the Led Zepellin guitarist who “dated” a 14-year old child when he was an adult. And look at Michael Hann’s piece in the Guardian on Celebration Day, a film about the band:

Led Zeppelin: ‘There was a swagger – we knew we were good’ – The film Celebration Day captures Led Zeppelin onstage in all their glory in 2007. The band discuss their musical legacy, reputation for excess – and why they will never reunite again.

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Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)

The Catholic Church regrets Jimmy Savile

THE Tablet reports on Jimmy Savile, the papal knight accused of being a paedophile. A spokesman for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales said the Church would not have awarded Sir Jimmy the honour if it “had been aware of the allegations and the allegations had proved to be true”.

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Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment

Dear Jimmy Savile, thanks for the Michael Jackson tickets

THE Jimmy Savile grave headstone at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough has been dismantled. Flowers have been left on the unmarked grave. A note has been left. It reads – and no kidding:

To Jim

Thanks for the good laughs, MJ tickets and most of all the cherry bakewells.

Love Sharon

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Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Jimmy Savile: The soap on a rope, a board game and tickets to take children all over the country

JIMMY Savile has yet to be dug up and his body beaten with sticks. But his massive gravestone has been removed, his papal knighthood is being revoked (maybe) and charities are ditching his name, Asda has stopped selling his outfit (see below) and Savile’s guide to child minding (we kid you not) and other books are no longer on the syllabus. Savile’s sex shop brick, however, remains in situ. Your writer had only one Jimmy Savile item: a Jim’ll Fix It soap on a rope. Never did use it. Chances are that the rope would have sagged and snapped, sending the soap tumbling to the floor…

All this was made possible by the BBC endorsing a man who, as many allege, was a sexual deviant to preyed on underage girls. Who knew about Jimmy ‘Top Of the Pops’ Savile? And wha did we have to wait until the knighted gibberer was dead before the truth came out?

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Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Why did the Catholic Church and The Queen make Jimmy Savile a knight? (The Gary Glitter video)

WAS Princess Diana’s pal Jimmy Savile given a papal knighthood before or after it was known he had sexually abused scores of children? Did they require evidence? A conviction?

The latest news on Savile, is that having lost his gravestone in Scarborough, the Roman Catholic Church are mulling on whether to strip the BBC star of his paler knighthood, granted in 1990 by the late Pope John Paul II.

The police’s Operation Yewtree is looking at 120 lines of inquiry. There might be as many as 30 female victims. Savile is already accused of two rapes and six of indecent assaults.

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Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Jimmy Savile book of the day: Other People’s Children – A Handbook for Child Minders

JIMMY Savile book of the day: Other People’s Children – a Handbook for Child Minders”… Previously: Love Is An Uphill Thing and Benjamin Rabbit and the Stranger Danger…

Spotter: Dangerous Minds

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Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comments (5)

Jimmy Savile’s gravestone is removed – chip shop owners clean the walls

IT is, of course, what he would have wanted. Jimmy Savile’s massive gravestone in Scarborough is to be demolished. That’s the gigantic headstone with the spelling mistake- the one that says Savile is “Chieftan of Locheber Highland Games”.

The stone will not be smashed to smithereens by outraged former fans. His family will remove it “out of respect for public opinion”.

The statement runs:

“Out of respect to public opinion, to those who are buried there, and to those who tend their graves and visit there, we have decided to remove it.”

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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)

Jimmy Savile Book of the day: ‘Love Is An Uphill Thing’

JIMMY Savile book of the day:  “The rags-to-riches autobiography of JIMMY SAVILE OBE – LOVE IS AN UPHILL THING.”

Previously in Jimmy Savile books.

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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment (1)