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Jimmy Savile Makes ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ Joke In Resurfaced Panel Show Clip

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Published 17:31 7 Apr 2022 GMT+1

Jimmy Savile Makes ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ Joke In Resurfaced Panel Show Clip

The notorious paedophile alluded to his crimes in a 1999 TV appearance

Daisy Phillipson

Daisy Phillipson

A clip has resurfaced of Jimmy Savile telling a joke on Have I Got News For You that alludes to his heinous crimes. 

The British DJ and TV presenter managed to continually carry out horrific sex offences while remaining in the public eye for decades. 

He died in October 2011 aged 84, having never been brought to justice.

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However, countless examples of his TV appearances show how the paedophile managed to 'hide in plain sight'.

Many of these are coming to the surface in light of Netflix’s new documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, which dropped this week. 

That includes this clip taken back in 1999, when Savile appeared on the popular BBC panel show. 

Host Angus Deayton asks him: “You used to be a wrestler didn’t you?” to which Savile responds: “I still am,” adding, “I’m feared in every girls’ school in the country.”

The audience laughs at the innuendo, which appears to be a reference to the rumours at the time that Savile was a paedophile, something he denied while he was alive. 

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But the insurmountable evidence to show Savile was a prolific sex offender has since come to light, giving this comment a sickening backdrop. 

Jimmy Saville was able to get away with his sex crimes for his entire life.
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This was explored by director Rowan Deacon in Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story.

Having analysed 700 hundred hours of archive footage, Deacon concluded that Savile adapted his approach to 'hiding in plain sight' across the decades.

She said: "I think in the 1960s and 1970s what's most shocking is that his what we now describe as lascivious, creepy, assaulting behaviour on women, which is happening in front of the camera on broadcast footage, what's shocking about that is not that he's doing it, because we now know what we know, it's that nobody blinks an eye, it's completely normal.

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"So I think that the social conditions at the time normalised that kind of behaviour. 

“I don't mean the things that we found out that he was also doing, but the sort of public lasciviousness and creepiness (that) was not judged as anything problematic."

Deacon feels Savile's tactics changed by the 1990s, as by then he was seen as a 'creepy and strange figure', so he himself became the 'source of the rumours' - something we can see in his Have I Got News For You appearance. 

"He's the one saying the creepy things and suggesting that he's up to no good, and I think he does a kind of double bluff with the audience," she said.

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"So it's quite confusing and people end up thinking, 'Well, he's sort of saying it so it can't be true.'

"And I think that kind of psychological game that goes on, it's quite complex, that we can now look back at in the archive and we also asked our interviewees who were in the archives to look back at it themselves, which was kind of an interesting experience.”

She added that it ‘really helps us to understand how this happened in a way that’s illuminating’. 

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child, contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000, 8am–10pm Monday to Friday, 9am–6pm weekends. If you are a child seeking advice and support, call Childline for free on 0800 1111 

Or alternatively, contact The Survivor’s Trust for free on 08088 010 818, or through their website thesurvivorstrust.org 

Featured Image Credit: BBC

Topics: Crime, BBC, Netflix

Daisy Phillipson
Daisy Phillipson

Daisy graduated from Kingston University with a degree in Magazine Journalism, writing a thesis on the move from print to digital publishing. Continuing this theme, she has written for a range of online publications including Digital Spy and Little White Lies, with a particular passion for TV and film. Contact her on [email protected]

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