"You do a terrific job, Jimmy," says TV presenter Gloria Hunniford in an old archived interview with Jimmy Savile.
"No, that's all front. That's all lies," the Leeds-born fellow TV presenter replies.
Hunniford laughs, believing it's a joke – but for once, ironically, Savile isn't lying. The former DJ and children's charity fundraiser would later be revealed to be one of Britain's most prolific sexual abusers.
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Savile, who is thought to have sexually abused as many as 1,000 victims, is the subject of Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, a two-part documentary released on Netflix on Wednesday. Rumours of Savile's predilection for teenage girls had long been in circulation but the extent of his crimes did not become public knowledge until after his death in 2011.
Now the documentary, using extensive archive footage, will reveal Savile's relationship with the public and how the former DJ and children's charity fundraiser hoodwinked an entire country. Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story features quotes from Savile which would gain a profoundly sinister resonance.
"I'm not in your world. I'm not constrained by anything," he tells an interviewer.
"Let me tell you," he says to the camera, "You really are missing something. In fact, you're missing everything."
The documentary reveals how Savile created a 'screen' in front of himself to evade justice in what became one of the BBC's biggest scandals. Using extensive archive footage, it reveals Savile's relationship with the public and how the former DJ and children's charity fundraiser hoodwinked an entire country.
One source tells the show: "He was making a screen in front of him; it was like you couldn't see through it...
"It turns out everywhere he had been there had been abuse."
Savile managed the Mecca Locarno ballroom in Leeds in the late 1950s and early 1960s. After a stint as a professional cyclist and wrestler, he became a radio DJ and later a TV presenter, appearing regularly on Top of the Pops and his own Jim'll Fix It show.
He volunteered at hospitals including Leeds General Infirmary and raised millions for children's charities. It was later revealed Savile's apparent philanthropy had been a front for accessing and abusing young, vulnerable people.
Watch Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story on Netflix from Wednesday.
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