Marcus Parks

He does.

Just like it was in the 60s and 70s, there were times when the press got close to exposing Jimmy Savile during the 1980s.

In 1983, two girls aged 10 and 11 had a bad experience in Jimmy's house after he invited them inside for a tea.

So the girls told their parents, and the parents called both the cops and the tabloids.

Savile was therefore hounded for months by the tabloids, because they'd been waiting for something like this for a long time.

Oh, yeah.

But Savile claimed that nobody could find any evidence of anything, which, quote, earned him total respect from the authorities.

They had so much respect for him.

They looked into him.

They found nothing.

Oh, my God, they love him so much.

Yeah.

But at this point, there are dozens upon dozens of reports all over.

Tell me about it.

About Jimmy's.

Yeah, no, it's difficult.

Now, obviously, the police just weren't doing their job, and not just because they might have been leaned on by the prime minister or the Prince of Wales, who, remember, by 1983, both of those people are close personal friends to Jimmy Savile.

As we said, Jimmy Savile had gained control over the police decades before he even met a royal, so he had nothing to worry about when it came to investigation.

His biggest worry was the ever-present and vicious British press.

But Jimmy Savile had an innate understanding of how to manipulate any given situation, no matter how large it was, and his plan for the press worked perfectly.