Amanda Holden previously revealed that she'd had an uncomfortable encounter with disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile when she was a teenager while at the hospital.
Savile was posthumously unmasked to be a prolific sex offender in 2012, just a year after he had passed away. It was revealed that Savile had exploited his fame and power throughout his career in order to abuse hundreds of people throughout his life - most of them women and children.
A year after the sickening revelations came to light, Britains Got Talent judge Holden would reveal that she'd encountered Savile while visiting the hospital as a teenager.
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Explaining the encounter during an interview with Alan Carr, Holden claimed that she was receiving treatment for an injury to her finger when the Jim'll Fix It! presenter appeared from behind a curtain and made an inappropriate joke towards her.
"When I was 19 I was cutting a cake and I cut my finger - I've still got a scar," she explained.
"So I went with my then boyfriend to the hospital and they stitched it up and they put a bandage around it... and then this man drew back the curtains and made this flippant remark that I'd tried to take my own life by slicing my finger.
"Then I was like, 'Oh, that's Jim'll Fix It! Oh my God!'"
Holden then went on to say that Savile asked her if she had any 'gynaecological problems'.
"And luckily my boyfriend was there so he was my witness," she continued. I said 'No', thinking it was a bit bizarre. He gave me a weird smile and he went, 'I can give you one!'"
Holden then went on to explain that while she didn't see herself as a victim of Savile's, learning about his harrowing crimes had led her to reevaluate the encounter.
"Do you know what?" she added. "I'm saying the story flippantly because, at the time I was a student, and for me it was just like, 'what a bizarre story', and I went back to drama school and told everyone and there was no serious weight to it or anything.
"I am not like those poor people that he has..." she trailed off, hinting at some of Savile's horrific sex offences over the years.
The full extent of Savile's shocking crimes were revealed by former detective-turned-investigator Mark Williams-Thomas in ITV's documentary Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile.
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Topics: Celebrity, Amanda Holden, Jimmy Savile
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