When Louis Met... Jimmy

Louis Theroux: So, why do you say in interviews that you hate children when I've seen you with kids and you clearly enjoy their company and you have a good rapport with them?

Jimmy Savile: Right, obviously I don't hate 'em. That's number one.

Louis Theroux: Yeah. So why would you say that then?

Jimmy Savile: Because we live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say "I don't like children" because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.

Louis Theroux: Are you basically saying that so tabloids don't, you know, pursue this whole 'Is he/isn't he a paedophile?' line, basically?

Jimmy Savile: Yes, yes, yes. Oh, aye. How do they know whether I am or not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not, so I can tell you from experience that the easy way of doing it when they're saying "Oh, you have all them children on Jim'll Fix It", say "Yeah, I hate 'em."

Louis Theroux: Yeah. To me that sounds more, sort of, suspicious in a way though, because it seems so implausible.

Jimmy Savile: Well, that's my policy, that's the way it goes. That's what I do. And it's worked a dream.

Louis Theroux: Has it worked?

Jimmy Savile: A dream.