Appearing in Puss in Boots pantomime in 2006 Davidson, in character as Dick Whittington, asked the audience: "Do you know who I am?"
A boy scout in the audience yelled back: "Yes, you're a fucking wanker."

Am reminded of this:

Yes Esther, that really is the most important thing to remember...

Esther Rantzen on BBC news this morning, and i'm paraphrasing:

"This goes to show that predators don't always look like predators and can be anyone"

Errr... this is Jimmy Savile we are talking about, right?

"The important thing to remember in all this, is that the majority of offences happened before Childline was setup"

Yes Esther, that really is the most important thing to remember...

Rantzen really, really irritates me. Emotionally manipulative, hypocritical witch. Not quite as sickening as Noel Edmond's career life-support system that was his cloying Christmas-present-to-child-stuff, but almost.

It blows my mind that all these people knew, yet it's only just been made public.

Here's a question posed at work today.... If you take into account all the money he raised for charity and his noncing, would the world be a net better place if Savile never existed?

That's the power of having a friendly relationship to the British Royals, the mass-murdering crime family whose collective body count would shame even Sicily's worst.

You make it sound like we've got the Joker and Harley Quinn sitting on the throne... Although, thinking about it, that would be cool (for a couple of days)

Savile raised less money than people think. He took hefty fees for appearances and was very good at publicity and being seen doing stuff.

Savile's Daily Telegraph obituary put Savile's fundraising at £40 million..........

The estimated amount of money Jeremy Beadle raised for charity, always with no publicity or personal fees, was £100 million (source: BBC).

Why THE FUCK is there not a solid gold statue of Beadle in Trafalgar square? 100 million quid, no fuss, no noncing kids, no stupid tracksuits and mugging in publicity shots. Beadle just got down to it. To him it was about the fundraising and was never about creating the cult of personality that Savile did.

And what did Beadle get from the country? A poxy MBE! Savile got an OBE and Knighthood!

The irony is that Beadle would have been perfectly happy with no recognition and an MBE because by all accounts of the people who knew him, that's the kind of guy he was.

See also "CILLA", described by one Popbitch poster as "Nasty vile and rude woman who had riders and demands so stupid even Shirley Bassey would've been embarassed about."

CBeebies has apologised after a character from the children's TV programme The Tweenies appeared dressed as disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile.

The episode, which was filmed in 2001, was shown on the BBC before 0900 GMT.

Goddammit, don't you know you are supposed to be traumatised for life? Where is your outrage? Where is your lack of perspective? I bet you haven't even called a newspaper demanding compensation.

Honestly, people like you make me sick.

He was reinstated, but soon faced worse problems, when he was charged with indecent assault on two eight-year-old girls in a swimming pool, at which he had assisted as a part-time instructor.

The trial, at Burnley Crown Court, inevitably attracted the interest of the tabloids, which reported it in lurid detail. But Adamson had recruited the services of George Carman - whose expertise in the defence of celebrities was already evident. Adamson was acquitted but was left with an enormous legal bill.

After prevaricating, Adamson decided to pay the bill by returning to the tabloids with more tales from Coronation Street, and was sacked for breach of contract. Soon afterwards, his wife, whom he had met while in rep and who had long suffered from chronic arthritis, died.

Although he had some acting work on radio, and in a West End production of Dial M for Murder, Adamson returned to the bottle, and, in a rambling account of the trial given to a Sun reporter, appeared to admit his guilt.

"I am totally guilty of everything the police said," he said. "But what I hope you will print - there was no sexual intent."

So why did, as that BBC report puts it, the media choose only to report that an 82 year old man had been arrested?

because some celebrities are more equal than others.

because some celebrities are more equal than others.

"I painted the queen, don't you know"

To be fair, the other celebrities named aren't really currently high profile, but Rolf Harris is which would have made them nervous. If there was an error in any reporting then Rolf would have had a more valid claim that he'd lost income as he'd no longer be able to go around showing kids his poor injured puppies, than say Jim Davidson.

It wasn't just the Beeb that held back on this, it was everyone. Despite the Saville controvversy, the BBC wouldn't have wanted to be seen leading the charge where others feared to tread.

To be fair, the other celebrities named aren't really currently high profile, but Rolf Harris is which would have made them nervous. If there was an error in any reporting then Rolf would have had a more valid claim that he'd lost income as he'd no longer be able to go around showing kids his poor injured puppies, than say Jim Davidson.

It wasn't just the Beeb that held back on this, it was everyone. Despite the Saville controvversy, the BBC wouldn't have wanted to be seen leading the charge where others feared to tread.

What worries me is if all these old skool icons have been putting it around with kids, how many people do we know in real life that have done the same? Perhaps I'm being slightly irrational. There are many other people with greater access to young children then these guys had. Perhaps a little bit of fame helped cover it up but how many people would say "Bob down the road wouldn't do anything like that, he's a stand up guy".

Obviously not everyone is guilty but it makes me wonder.

My Brother is a lawyer in London and said that Rolf took a Super Injuction out to block press reporting.

Guess thats run out or being overturned now.

Presumably Rolf is being questioned for "sexual offences" as opposed to "child sex offences", so although it's still creepy and horrible, it's not really fair to tar him with the same brush as paedo-Saville, IMO>

Absolutely - the BBC report was that it was a claim from a single woman, not that it had anything to do with kids.

It’s taking a long time, he has been arrested twice and they have been “talking to him” for 4 months.