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Louis Theroux made two documentaries about evil Jimmy Savile, and has revealed on a new podcast that the disgraced DJ had written about his crimes in a book that nobody read
Louis Theroux has dropped the bombshell revelation that evil Jimmy Savile had written all about his crimes in a book, but it went unnoticed because nobody read it.
Talking to Jessie and Lennie Ware on the Table Manners podcast, Theroux shared the reality of what happens when people don't read things fully. He has written a memoir, and joked that people probably won't read it in full.
He made the shock point about Saville when talking about the best place to keep a secret: "If you want to hide something and if you have something you absolutely don't want people to know about you, put it in a book, no one will read it. Jimmy Savile had confessed everything in his book, but no one read the book."
It's not just the public who aren't reading either, it turns out some of the celebs supposedly writing books haven't even given them a browse. Louis recalls one memorable interview with Sharon Osbourne after reading her book: "I asked her about it and she's like, how do you know all this stuff — she hadn't read her own book!"
Louis had made a documentary with Savile back in 2000 called When Louis Met Jimmy, and spent around two weeks with him. Theroux later wrote in a BBC article that he "hadn't quite figured him out", and kept returning to a book of notes he had written about the now-disgraced presenter.
After his crimes came to light, Theroux admitted he found himself "taking stock - attempting to piece together what I knew of the man and how it fits with the accounts of the victims."
In the same article, Theroux recalled Saville "wrote about borderline criminal sexual shenanigans in his autobiography, As It Happens, including a night he spent with a girl who was a runaway from a remand centre."
During filming, he had questioned Jimmy why he repeatedly said he hated kids: "Obviously I don’t hate them, that’s number one,” Savile replied. Louis then asked why he would say it if it wasn't true: "Because we live in a very funny world," Savile replied.
"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" said the Jim'll Fix It star. Louis replied if he meant to avoid the“is he/isn’t he a paedophile line”.
“Yes, yes, yes,” replied Jimmy. His crimes only came to light following his death in 2011, and Louis went on to film a follow up documentary examining everything that had come out in the wake of his passing.
He also interviewed several of Savile's victims, who said they felt sorry for Louis when they saw the first documentary, thinking he was "silly" being "pushed around" by the star.
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