Coleen Nolan details sinister request from 'dirty old man' Jimmy Savile
Coleen Nolan branded peadophile and sexual predator Jimmy Savile a "dirty old man" as she detailed a disgusting request from the disgraced BBC star.
She was just a teenager during an interaction with Jimmy while filming an episode of Top Of The Pops. Touring with sibling singing group The Nolans at just 14-years-old, Coleen explained the sickening request from the disgraced telly presenter and star of 70s programme Jim'll Fix It. Savile died in October 2011, aged 84, his sickening crimes were later outed.
Over the course of his life, he was confronted with several allegations of sexual abuse, the earliest being in 1958, although it was claimed at the time that there was not sufficient evidence. Following his death, allegations dating back to 1963 were made against him and an official investigation, Operation Yewtree was launched in 2012.
Coleen was just 14 when touring with The Nolans (© BBC)Opening up about her run-in with Savile, Coleen speaks about the incident in an upcoming episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories on Thursday. "You know when it came out about Jimmy Savile I wasn't in any way shocked, thinking about it," she said.
After watching a clip of the Top Of The Pops recording, she explained: "I was 14 there and that same night, he asked me to go to his hotel. He said he had a suite in a hotel and I should go up and see it and he'd look after me.
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"Well at the time I just thought, 'you dirty old man'. As if I'm going to go up there, I wouldn't do it anyway. I've got four sisters on the stage that would have beaten the crap out of him." She had previously claimed there are "many more Saviles" in the industry.
While discussing new Savile-based drama The Reckoning on Loose Women, Coleen explained: "I will watch it, I'm really interested in true crime, I do watch the documentaries, I have watched documentaries on Jimmy Savile." She then added: "I actually think, obviously, some of the victims have given their blessing to see this air and I think the reason being is, that we should continue to watch it. There are still, many, many, many Jimmy Saviles working out there and we need to be reminded, you may be watching and seeing some of how he came about to entice those women.
"Someone might watch it and go 'Oh that's what whoever down the road is doing and we need to be aware of it and keep an eye on it.'" Despite some people disagreeing with The Reckoning being made by the BBC, the same corporation that Savile worked for, one of his victims, named Susan, said: "It's not going to stop any other predator but what it might change is to make institutions not put their heads in the sand.
"Instead, take action from the beginning and for all of us to see how grooming happens so we understand it more." Janet Street-Porter added: "Men like Jimmy Savile operated in a circle of people who knew only too well what he was doing. So Jimmy Savile operated within a close circle, you see them in the drama, of men, who might not have liked what he was doing and didn't stop it and gave their approval by default."
It was in October 2012 that The Met Police said they were looking into 400 Savile enquiries and that the number of alleged victims was around 450.
If you've been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999
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