Marcus Parks
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And in exchange, he demanded oral sex.
When Kat finally did it, she gagged on his ejaculate, and as she was gagging, Savile leaned over to open her car door as if it was a routine he was well used to, saying, not in the car, not in the car, almost impatiently.
This treatment, favors like cigarettes or trips to tapings in exchange for oral sex, came to be known as Jimmy Specials.
And they were so common that Jimmy Specials came to be a known phrase around the BBC.
But if a girl didn't care about cigarettes or records, Jimmy had a far more insidious tactic.
He'd tell the girl that if she didn't give a Jimmy special, he'd tell all the other girls that the one who'd refused had, quote, ruined it for everyone, thus threatening total social exclusion.
So he knew how to get them no matter what.
Yeah.
Like he knew how to manipulate them.
Oh, yeah, very much so.
No matter what.
And to your point earlier, like Cat Ward said that Jimmy Salvo was the third man who abused her before she was 18 years old.
Yeah.
well they talk about in the um i think it was in in the book uh in plain sight you know they talk about how at the time it would have sounded ridiculous insane she would have sounded absolutely insane yeah to say that jimmy saville had done this but it was when and even like online when someone like when a reporter would read it they'd like would read it and be like this doesn't make any sense like what is like jimmy saville what are you talking about and then that would make
But while Savile was obviously a monster, he did have somewhat of a girlfriend that he picked up at Leeds General Infirmary in 1968.
He had to eventually.
Yeah, well, but she was also a complete and total secret.
It was always a secret.
Her name was Sue Himms.
and she was 17 when the middle-aged Jimmy Savile began the closest thing he ever had to a relationship.