Damien

What is surprising is the amount of people in the industry that have seemed to have suspected this. There are few of them claiming surprise and the instead the response ranges from Esther Rantzen's acceptance to Paul Gambaccini's comments that he has waited 30 years for this to come out. Louis Theoruix who did a documentary on Savile has said he attempt to broach the rumours but didn't get far because he had no evidence and didn't want to push it.

It all suggests that these rumours were persistent and widely known in the industry and yet it didn't leak in the public domain. He was even questioned about it and no paper reported it, The Sun had a reporter whose story was spiked by her editor because 'it wasn't what people wanted to read' and latter when a unnamed tabloid was going to do something on the allegations he somehow stopped it again by offering a interview to a rival (which can't be the whole story)...

Very odd.