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Posted: 18-06-2002 02:38 Post subject: Jimmy Savile

There are plenty of charity related urban legends about (crisp packet collections, bogus email scams .etc.), some even involving celebrities, but I recall hearing on a phone-in show somebody that claimed he saw Jimmy Savile cheating during the London Marathon. Apparently, in order for the cigar-chomping elderly DJ to do it, he had to take a shortcut that was "assisted" by officials. Ultimately, I guess it doesn't matter, but why bother telling people to sponsor you for something only to wimp out?
Anyway, I would be interested to hear if anyone can corroborate this rumour (and it is a rumour) or any other example of celebrity underhandedness.

Posted: 18-06-2002 06:01 Post subject:

Jimmy Saville is a cryptid ? Eek Eek

Posted: 18-06-2002 06:11 Post subject:

yeah he's a cryptid, he bleaches his hair white and claims to be a virgin! but ive heard different he's meant to be a beast in bed, thats why DD posted it here!

Posted: 18-06-2002 07:22 Post subject:

A physio once told me that JS visited the hospital where she worked, doing some celeb/charity thing, and dispite hospital rules about No Smoking continued to puff away on his vile tube of camel dung.

His haughty attitude that rules didn't apply to him won him no Brownie points there.

Posted: 18-06-2002 07:43 Post subject:

I know a very old joke about Jimmy Savile.

Posted: 18-06-2002 08:13 Post subject:

he's a freak. anyone who saw the luis theroux doc on him will know. when secretly filmed he admitted to hitting kids in a night club back in the 60's and when he fell and broke his leg the first person he rang was a publicist who sent a photgrapher to the hospital with him.

Posted: 19-06-2002 00:05 Post subject:

Uh .... who's Jimmy Savile? confused

(Pardon my ignorance Sad

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Posted: 19-06-2002 20:30 Post subject:

Friend of a friend once met Jimmy Saville, and the story was (believe it if you will), that he chased her around a desk crying "I've got the body of a 35 year old!"
Louis Theroux is apparently still friends with him, so he can't be as bad as all that.

Posted: 19-06-2002 21:25 Post subject:

Well, none of us is perfect, or anywhere near it. Not that I am in any way defending anyone's hypocrisy - I think that you have to live with who you are; some can do it better than others .. .. .. .. .. perhaps a certain numbness of conscience is required sometimes? Or maybe a mere blindness to the truth?

The biggest lie you can tell is the one you tell yourself.

Whilst you have to weigh the good someone does against the bad, who are we to judge anyone anyway? All we can have is an opinion.

Many celebrities who have high profile do-good images (or any kiind of high profile image, for that matter) end up in the newspapers for their indiscretions or intolerances .... just means they're human. How would YOUR life stand up to 24 hour scrutiny from the the press?

But again, I'm not defending anyone specific here. I have enormous disdain for untruthfulness from anyone - fame doesn't give you automatic imunity to being caught out in a lie either. I just think that sometimes we are a bit too keen to look for a chink and then go to town on it.

Mostly I'm ok with who I am, though sometimes I do struggle with questions I ask myself. I hope I get it right more than wrong - that's all that matters to me.

Sermon Over!!!

Posted: 19-06-2002 21:40 Post subject:

ive heard he has a genius IQ... not that that means anything

Posted: 19-06-2002 22:00 Post subject:

Technically, I have a genius IQ. And you've all read my posts!
Go figure. Sad

Posted: 05-07-2002 18:32 Post subject:

Jimmy Savile is allegedly accredited with inventing the concept of the disco, by playing records in local church halls and charging people to come in and dance to them, and thus becoming the very first DJ. Is this another UL?

Posted: 05-07-2002 23:18 Post subject:

I read JS's autobiography serialised in some Sunday rag in the 70s when he was very famous: he personally claimed to have invented discos as described above.

He also bought a Rolls-Royce and asked for the appropriate number of Green Shield stamps, which he said he intended to use to buy furniture for his old home. This was, he claimed, misreported as 'old people's home' and he ended up buying wee-proof sofas for such an establishment somewhere in Yorkshire.