I agree he was an absolute bullshitter. I read Louis Theroux's book and it goes into detail about his time with him. Savile was saying he was going to get him loads of big interviews and make his career through his connections and influence etc. None of which ever materialised of course as he spent most of his time in Scarborough not doing a lot at all around that time. Just massive delusions of grandeur. I'm sure Louis regrets keeping in contact with him now but it went on quite a few years after that initial documentary
Definitely a world class bullshitter, a casually dishonest person, who saw no reason not to lie to get what he wanted. Best insight into Saville's mind is the interview he did way back in 1991 with the Irish psychiatrist Antony Clare, who used to do this 'on the couch' series with various famous types. Clare was basically half mystified, half chilled by him.
Reading the interview now, knowing what we know about him, is a lot more revealing than it was at the time. You can slip between the lines and see confession after confession. The thing I notice about him in hindsight is how he likes to hide in plain sight, dangle truth amongst his bullshit. It's almost the secret of his extensive offending, to me.
I remember Savile on the BBC show, Have I Got News For You, being asked by Ian Hislop what he did in that caravan he owned. Savile says in the coldest of voices, "Anyone I bloody want." and the other panellists all sort of pathetically titter, very, very nervously. They pick up the horrible insinuation and possible truth of what he's saying, so try to dismiss it. The caravan btw being a place where he regularly raped young girls. He pulled the same trick with Theroux too, 'joking' on camera about being 'feared at every girls' school in the country' and Theroux looks rattled but doesn't challenge him.
How Jimmy Savile revealed all in the psychiatrist’s chair – Channel 4 News
The late actor Klaus Kinski - a insufferable if charismatic psycho who was actually diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder by a psychiatrist after stalking and trying to strangle a female colleague early in his career, would also pull the same conversational stunt as Savile ; casually throwing in some admission of something dreadful he'd done as a throwaway 'joke' or just in passing casual conversation. After news came out about him raping his daughter Pola from age five, and also molesting her half sister Natassja at the same age, another actor who made a film with him mentioned how one day on set Kinski strolled up and when asked how his weekend was says something like, "Great .. I raped Nastassja," like "I had a nice cup of tea," leaving the actor thinking he MUST be joking. He wasn't.
Saville was committing crimes against young people long before he ever got anywhere near the royals, the politicians and the rich and famous. He was known to 'like them young' and committed various nasty acts of violence against young men at the discos he ran in Yorkshire in the late fifties. He was definitely in with the police of the time - he was essentially a sociopathic gangster who got into the BBC via the old radio Luxembourg . There were so many creeps in the early DJ and teenybopper music scene - Chris Denning is another BBC pedophile who took the same route but one who was convicted early and often and lost his BBC career. Denning started working for Jonathon King (anyone recall him?) who produced boy bands, and molested them, and promoted Gary Glitter (enough said) and worked alongside the Bay City Rollers manager, who was also convicted of sex offences. I think these people form rings so easily in certain professions like entertainment because so many people see entertainment as the best way of getting close to the very young and vulnerable kids or beautiful young people they most desire. So certain parts of the music and film and tv industries are just full of creepers and sex pests. Savile just extended his range from entertainment into psychiatric and medical institutions via charity and used this respectability as a human shield.
Which leads me to Watkins ... heard from a mate who knew one of the other band members that they understood very well Watkins was an immoral junkie wanker and basic addled old creep but had no idea of the extent and depth of the sexual offending and depravity because they essentially, like many big bands, led completely separate lives offstage after a certain point. and Watkins shared nothing of his more disgusting interests with them. There are plenty of bands who don't like, socialize with or even speak to each other apart from onstage, so I believe this. I would suspect they knew about and tolerated the contact with borderline legal teenage girl fans, because that
tit is utterly rampant and accepted in these scenes, but I do believe they had no idea about the baby rape shite.