Robert Evans

He was never very close to most of his older siblings, and he will later become a mama's boy in a deeply weird way.

We're not really going to talk about it enough in these episodes, but he's like veering towards Patrick Bates levels of like very strange mom issues.

But initially he feels like he's ignored, like he doesn't get a lot of attention.

And he'll write about this both as if it frustrated him and also he'll talk about like, and I really like that because I'm a loner and this really worked out for me.

I like not getting a lot of attention.

I can't tell which is coping and which is the truth.

Yeah.

That said, his other family members don't seem to agree that he was ignored and not given a lot of attention.

His sister Joan actually says that she and the rest of the family considered Jimmy their miracle baby and that he was kind of fawned over by all of his older siblings and everyone else in the family because he'd had health issues as a kid.

Right.

And Davies points out in his book about Savile that while Savile preferred to portray himself as the not again baby, as this kid that wasn't wanted and was kind of ignored, his family insists that he was treated as the miracle child, the chosen one.

Right.

Which makes a lot more sense based on his subsequent behavior.

Yeah.

And it's interesting to me that he feels a need to like lie about this, to complain, to be like, oh, and they didn't even really want me.

You know, I had to deal with the fact that I didn't really belong.

Whereas his family is like, no, we were obsessed with him because he nearly died.

Now, Jimmy's father, Vince, was a tall and gangly man who never made a lot of money but was employed consistently and seems to have been like a pretty responsible parent, although not necessarily in what you'd call a reputable industry.

His boss was the town bookie, a guy named Jim Windsor, who young Jimmy seems to have grown up admiring.

Windsor once bragged to a newspaper that he'd been arrested once a year for 20 years, so