To think that Saville was NEVER a "Much loved family favourite"???

[MrsWinnibago]

Sorry to start a thread about this sick, awful animal but they just said on Radio 4 that he was a much loved family favourite.

I CLEARLY remember watching him on Jim'l Fix It and thinking "Oh he's HORRIBLE!"

I hated him...he was frightening and I could see that some children were very scared of him on that show.

Did ANYONE actually enjoy his "performances" and appearances?? I don't think so.

I think the establishment kept him where he was...on TV and in positions of power because he knew too much about THEIR activities.

And it's funny how it all came out once he was dead and couldn't name anyone else.

I challenge anyone to think back and remember how much they "loved" him at the time before his activities were known.

Hmmmmm
Saville used to ride past close where I lived on his annual outing to take under privileged kids for a day out at Blackpool.
My mum's view was that he was an eccentric who loved his mum - she has a soft spot for hospital porters and thought it was fantastic that he volunteered in hospitals....
How sad that he escaped justice.

I used to work for a famous person. Not Savile. But a very well known person. Everyone who knew her - from the bloke at the corner shop to everyone in her organisation - knew she was a ruthless, driven, ambitious, neurotic bully. And when the press interviewed her, there were always scenes, drama, back stage shenanigans. The journos knew perfectly well she was a manipulative cow.

But when the articles appeared, it suited the wider agenda and her persona to talk about her gentleness, thoughtfulness, her being soft spoken and intelligent, with a degree in some stupid obscure subject.

I learnt one thing: never, ever trust the press.

I should imagine you found that very disillusioning Greythorne.

Carpet that is indeed very chilling.

I got an irrational sense of enjoyment watching that wrestler stamp on his head....not usually a violent person.

I think it's a little unreasonable to ask people what they thought of js and how they perceived him. Memory is notoriously unreliable, especially now we know what he did. The op is clearly wrong as he was a national treasure

Myrtle don't go there. The first page that came up from Nigellas link was foul, offensive, rantings linking paedophilia to homosexuality. She should remove the link.

Charlie, if you actually read that thread from the start you can see that's not the case at all.

The majority of posters on that thread know that the link between paeodophilia and homosexuality is a load of bull. That particular post is from a poster that's been posting similar crap throughout that thread.

I am sorry if the link I sent brought offensive stuff up - that was certainly not my intention - I thought it would link directly to the JS thread which has no such rantings. It is for that reason that I mostly stay away from DI. Nonetheless the JS thread is worth reading IMHO

Interesting discussion on radio 5 at the moment. Fewer green ink brigaders than usual on phone ins.

When I was a kid I liked watching Jim'll fix it, I thought he was a kind man who wanted to help people, who clowned around a bit to make them laugh.

Just like your favorite uncle.

I am stunned at the revelations, wondering how he came to have such abhorrent appetites.

I'm in my 50s and always thought he was a creepy weirdo. Always made me squirm. My parents (dad in his 80s now) loved it but think they were swayed by charity work. They also enjoyed the innuendo in shows like the two Ronnie's which I loathed (but in the 60s and 70s we only had BBC1 and ITV!).

I happen to know someone who was 'touched up' by him when she was in the audience for TOTP and when she told me 1980s) it didn't surprise me one jot. Creepy pervert

Listening to radio 5. Absolutely heartbreaking hearing that man speak

Im sick of seeing his face they are talking about the latest revelation and keep showing clips I wish they wouldnt,

He was never loved in our house. My Mum particularly found him creepy

We watched Jim'll Fix It, but I remember my brother going through a massive sword fighting obsession and I wanted to write in and ask for a Fix It for him, but my mum wouldn't entertain the idea.

He also visited a local centre that I went to and my Mum used to volunteer at when I was about 8 I think and the organisers asked if would be part of a group of other young girls to meet him. My mum refused.

I just remember hating him for that horrible cigar - I had an uncle who smoked cigars and the smell made me feel sick

He came to a childrens hospital I was in he was loud and obnoxious and I pretend ed to be asleep they were taking pictures I hated pictures being taken,

...always found him to be creepy even as a kid... revelations didn't surprise me one bit. I recall there were rumours about him even then.

This is the point that I just start laughing, slightly hysterically. I mean, eyeballs, for god's sake. Fucking EYEBALLS!! And the world looked on...

I was thinking this the other day, that I loved the format of Jim 'll Fix it, and how sad it was that that format could never now be used again. We loved to watch it

first ever fix it was sausage and marmalade sandwiches at the Ritz. Those sarnies are still a favourite.

But I didn't really like Jim, thought he was a bit weird, but then he wore weird clothes, spoke in a funny voice and smoked a huge weird cigar. I don't think there is anything in hindsight saying that, he was an odd character. I didn't find it wow or funny, just a bit odd.

Secret confession.

I met him twice when I was a child about 9 years old with my brother and some other pupils in our classes.

I raised a big sum of money back then for PHAB (one of JS' charities he was patron of), was in local newspaper and JS invited me and our class to watch the JS show being filmed.

My mum bless her asked us recently if he'd done anything to us - but there was someone there (like an adult) but no we were safe. didn't touch us.

We were all as was every other kid, mad keen on him though, he was a hero.

But isn't it interesting that a few posters have said the same thing? They weren't allowed to watch it. So not only some children but some adults had a bad feeling about him.

Others thought him fine...I find this fascinating....it's like when you just take against someone for no apparent reason and your mates or your partner likes them and can't understand your aversion.

I had it with a man who used to come into a bar I worked at. He was a police officer and he was REPELLENT. I have nothing against the forces but God I HATED serving him and literally shuddered when I had to pick up his glass afterwards.

Others thought him fine...I find this fascinating.... Me too OP. I first clicked on this thread assuming it would be an unanimous YANBU, but actually, I have to concede that your original question has to be met with YABU, as it is evident that he really was a favourite for some. I'm not making a judgement on those people, rather, like you, fascinated that someone can seem so repellant to some yet completely inoffensive (at the time) to others.

Yes it is fascinating and may be largely chance that a person's spidey senses just happen to pick up on something?

We were never allowed to watch Jim'll Fix It. My mum wouldn't let us-she always said, even then that there was something deeply nasty about him and that he wasn't right somehow.

I SO respect your mum for this. She did what adults should have done and she protected you.

Unless pedophiles can all if a sudden "get you" through the telly I don't really understand this. Were all the other parents, who didn't have a bad feeling about JS, leaving their children vulnerable simply by letting them watch him on telly?