"Louis Theroux: So, why do you say in interviews that you hate children when I've seen you with kids and you clearly enjoy their company and you have a good rapport with them? Jimmy: Right, obviously I don't hate 'em. That's number one. Louis: Yeah. So why would you say that then? Jimmy: Because we live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say "I don’t like children" because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt. Louis: Are you basically saying that so tabloids don't, you know, pursue this whole "Is he/isn’t he a paedophile?" line, basically? Jimmy: Yes, yes, yes. Oh, aye. How do they know whether I am or not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not, so I can tell you from experience that the easy way of doing it when they're saying "Oh, you have all them children on Jim'll Fix It", say "Yeah, I hate 'em." Louis: Yeah. To me that sounds more, sort of, suspicious in a way though, because it seems so implausible. Jimmy: Well, that's my policy, that's the way it goes. That's what I do. And it's worked a dream. (Pause) Louis: Has it worked? Jimmy: A dream."
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When Louis Met Jimmy (BBC documentary broadcast April 2000), quoted in "When Louis asked Jimmy about being a paedophile" New Statesman (3 October 2012/3 August 2021)
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Jimmy Savile
James Wilson Vincent Savile (31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality and charity fundraiser. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against Savile and, after being investigated, the police concluded he had been a predatory sex offender and possibly one of Britain's most prolific.
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