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Jimmy Savile gave chilling response when Louis Theroux asked if he was a paedophile

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Updated 11:34 23 Jan 2025 GMTPublished 11:17 23 Jan 2025 GMT

Jimmy Savile gave chilling response when Louis Theroux asked if he was a paedophile

Louis Theroux interviewed Jimmy Savile as part of his When Louis Met… series in 2000

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Jimmy Savile gave a chilling response when Louis Theroux asked straight up if he was a paedophile.

This was back in 2000, when the prolific paedophile featured on Theroux's When Louis Met… series and with the benefit of hindsight, the warning signs were there.

Watch below:

Having previously called the former DJ his 'childhood hero', Theroux was on a mission to follow him to shed some light on the rumours.

In a clip from the documentary, Theroux asks Savile directly about whether or not he was a paedophile and his response was awfully evasive.

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Savile replied while the duo were driving around: "[We] live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say 'I don't like children' because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.... How do they know whether I am [a paedophile] or not?

Louis Theroux followed Jimmy Savile for months filming a documentary in 2000 (BBC)
Louis Theroux followed Jimmy Savile for months filming a documentary in 2000 (BBC)

"How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not."

What a long-winded way to lie.

During the doc, Savile also showed the filmmaker his strange routine when entering his flat, which he bought for his mother before she died.

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He explained that he stayed in the flat with her corpse in an open casket for five days, and said that the pair ‘never argued’.

When he walked into the home, he claimed to always say, ‘all right, darling?’

But this wasn’t the only strange thing about him, as Savile had always proved to be a weird and eccentric character.

Jimmy Savile had been displaying odd and inappropriate behaviour for years (Channel 4)
Jimmy Savile had been displaying odd and inappropriate behaviour for years (Channel 4)

However, the severity of his deprivation was only exposed in 2012 after ITV began an investigation into reports that he was a sexual abuser.

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Police later said Savile had committed 214 criminal offences which took place in hospitals and other areas.

Reflecting on his part in the original documentary during a second in 2016, Theroux said: "I've watched it since the revelations came out and I'm struck by how much is there. It's very far from soft journalism.

"We all knew he was doing some act. He would more or less invite people to believe he had secrets."

Speaking on the Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware podcast, Theroux admitted: "As the show [When Louis Met...] went on, who wants to be like, ‘well we've done Jimmy Savile and we've done Paul Daniels, so we'd love to do you.’

"And I remember one or two of the celebrity's agents were like, ‘that's not a very nice thing to be asked.’

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Additional words by Britt Jones.

If you have been affected by any of the issues in this article and wish to speak to someone in confidence, contact The Survivors Trust for free on 08088 010 818, available 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm and 6pm-8pm Monday to Thursday, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm on Fridays, 10am-12.30pm on Saturdays and 6pm-8pm on Sundays.

Featured Image Credit: BBC

Topics: Jimmy Savile, Louis Theroux, Celebrity

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish is a Journalist at LADbible Group and is a GG2 Young Journalist of the Year 2025. He has a Master's degree in Multimedia Journalism and a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management. Apart from that, his life revolves around the ‘Four F’s’ - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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