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Originally Posted by Stuart
I know that I (and apparently a lot of viewers) found him a little creepy, but that is not a criminal offence.
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The weird thing is how he was, as some put it 'hiding in plain sight'. I remember seeing an episode of Jim 'll fix it in the early 90s when I was first in the UK. I hadn't seen Savile before that, so I didn't know anything about him. I immediately thought 'something is wrong here', and I asked a mate about him. My mate replied saying he was just an eccentric and a massive fund-raiser for charity. I though, oh, that's alright then, and kind of nice that someone's given the space to be eccentric.
Unfortunately, my initial reaction was justified, and something was wrong. Now, I'm not going to claim that it should have been obvious to all. It just seems to me that many people had seen so many of Savile's oddities, that things that set alarm bells ringing in someone who hadn't seen him before, seem perfectly fine to those who knew him. In hindsight, oddities that may have been carefully crafted to hide the real 'secrets'.