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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

This New Savile Documentary


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5 hours ago, Rudy said:

My primary school had an entire wall for jim’ll fix it

Covered in letters all the hopeful kids wrote to him to try and get on the show in the middle of it was a full cut out of him and above it said “Please Jim fix it for me” 

Had to walk past it every time to go to the hall. Scared the life out of me. And they never got on the show 

Bet they don’t have it up anymore 😂

I wrote to Jim’ll Fix it when I was a kid and asked if he could get me to meet Rolf Harris. 
 

Never heard back. I dodged a bullet there.

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I recall early 80s, there was a Bolton marathon that went through Horwich which Saville was running in

they gave an estimate of what time he would be passing through

all the locals came out to see him

my grandad was beyond exicted and had us all down at the crossroads where aldi is now waiting to see him, arrived 30 mins early to get a good spot and be sure not to miss him

big cheers as he passed

then everyone just walked off, fuck the rest of them

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Thought the documentary was a bit lazy as well.

But

Andrew Neil was the only interviewer who really unsettled him. Looked at one point that he might almost get a confession.

Selina Scott was top top drawer

 

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1 hour ago, Zico said:

I recall early 80s, there was a Bolton marathon that went through Horwich which Saville was running in

they gave an estimate of what time he would be passing through

all the locals came out to see him

my grandad was beyond exicted and had us all down at the crossroads where aldi is now waiting to see him, arrived 30 mins early to get a good spot and be sure not to miss him

big cheers as he passed

then everyone just walked off, fuck the rest of them

Yeah I went out on Plodder Lane with my parents to watch him, and then we all went back to my Nana's after he'd been past - same, all big cheers etc

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12 minutes ago, tomski said:

To be fair I’d like to be the only non pro nonce celeb from 70s if I was him too

Attenborough as well. He just diddled monkeys.

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16 hours ago, dave2980 said:

I watched it over the weekend and I know documentaries are usually skewed more to one side of the story than the other but fuck me, in some of those interview snippets, he was basically telling us all he was a bad 'un but nobody really took him on and just laughed stuff off. It's absolutely crackers that it was covered up for so long

he even took the piss on his headstone "it was good whilst it lasted"

and I don't get the big deal with Selina Scott

she just looks like a standard 80s bird with shit hair and fashion

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51 minutes ago, Traf said:

BTec Lady Di

now you mention it, spot on that summary

I guess it's all relative and you had to be there and have had an eye for the ladies in the 80s

if so, she was fit compared to all the other shit haired/dressed women out there on tv and in kays catalogues

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2 hours ago, Zico said:

now you mention it, spot on that summary

I guess it's all relative and you had to be there and have had an eye for the ladies in the 80s

if so, she was fit compared to all the other shit haired/dressed women out there on tv and in kays catalogues

She wanted to be Diana.

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