From Savile to Schofield – the TV legends who fell from grace
From Savile to Schofield – the TV legends who fell from grace – and may very well be about to be joined by Presenter X
- The BBC has been rocked by various intercourse scandals involving its staff
The BBC has been rocked by various intercourse scandals over time involving high-profile staff.
Most well-known amongst them was Jimmy Savile, who throughout his lifetime was thought to be a charitable and eccentric BBC presenter, greatest recognized for TV exhibits similar to High Of The Pops and Jim’ll Repair It.
However all of the whereas, the star was raping and assaulting tons of of individuals – together with ladies and boys below the age of 5 – in tv dressing rooms, colleges and hospitals across the nation.
A BBC Newsnight investigation into the abuse allegations, which was as a consequence of be screened two months after Savile’s loss of life in 2011, was axed and an inquiry later discovered the choice to drop the story was ‘flawed’.
Different disgraced BBC entertainers embrace youngsters’s TV presenter and singer Rolf Harris, who died in Could on the age of 93.
Most well-known amongst them was Jimmy Savile, who throughout his lifetime was thought to be a charitable and eccentric BBC presenter, greatest recognized for TV exhibits similar to High Of The Pops and Jim’ll Repair It. However all of the whereas, the star was raping and assaulting tons of of individuals – together with ladies and boys below the age of 5 – in tv dressing rooms, colleges and hospitals across the nation
Different disgraced BBC entertainers embrace youngsters’s TV presenter and singer Rolf Harris, who died in Could on the age of 93
Harris was jailed for 5 years and 9 months after being discovered responsible of a string of indecent assaults between 1968 and 1986.
Earlier than his crimes had been uncovered, he had painted a portrait of the late Queen to mark her eightieth birthday and had been awarded an OBE, MBE, CBE and Bafta fellowship – awards that had been later stripped away.
It’s A Knockout’s Stuart Corridor was jailed in 2013 after he was discovered responsible of indecently assaulting 13 ladies – one aged simply 9 – between 1968 and 1986.
He was launched in late 2015 after serving half his sentence.
It’s A Knockout’s Stuart Corridor was jailed in 2013 after he was discovered responsible of indecently assaulting 13 ladies – one aged simply 9 – between 1968 and 1986
Ex-Radio 1 DJ Mark Web page was jailed for 18 years for abusing youngsters each on-line and in individual within the Philippines.
And Dave Lee Travis, the previous BBC Radio 1 DJ and High Of The Pops presenter, was given a suspended sentence of three months for indecently assaulting a girl in 1995.
Sports activities and breakfast TV presenter Frank Bough’s picture was shattered in 1988 when it was revealed he had snorted cocaine with prostitutes whereas watching {couples} having intercourse.