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Just pick someone you don't like and say it's them. We all are starting to speculate and accuse. On his blog in October, Davidson wrote, 'The Savile witch hunt is going a bit silly now.

In a statement, the former host of Big Break and The Generation Game said he 'vigorously denies' the allegations, which reportedly date back around 25 years. Plain clothes officers searched his £900,000 Georgian home in the Hampshire village of Stockbridge and were seen leaving with plastic evidence bags and brown envelopes.

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The entertainer was due to appear on the Channel 5 reality series - which begins tonight (January 3, 2012) - though took the decision to pull out after he was questioned by detectives. The comedian Jim Davidson has been forced to pull out of Celebrity Big Brother after he was arrested at Heathrow airport in connection with the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.

In 2006, a Vietnam court found him guilty of committing obscene acts with minors.Ĭontinue reading: Why Did Gary Glitter Benefit Financially From Silver Linings Playbook? Glitter's reputation was irreparably tarnished following his 1997 arrest and 1999 convicted for possession of child pornography in the UK. A US source defended the use of his track in Silver Linings Playbook, saying, 'There's less awareness of his past here.' He was also played on BBC Radio 2 and on a Top of the Pops rerun. Technology giant Hewlett Packard used a cover version of the singer's hit track Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah) in their U.S. According to The Sun, American football, basketball and ice hockey teams regularly used Glitter's 1970s anthems during match-days, again boosting his coffers each time. Glitter - who was arrested again this year as part of Operation Yewtree - banked royalties from the movie, as well as from several other sources. Glitter's 1972 track Rock And Roll Part 2 features in one of the trailers for the Jennifer Lawrence-starring movie, which is up for eight prizes at the Academy Awards.

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Th Guardian report also said that Savile’s former Scottish cottage was vandalized overnight, with “abusive slogans” painted on to the walls of the property.Convicted sex-offender Gary Glitter raked in £300,000 this year, partly thanks to David O'Russell's Oscar nominated movie Silver Linings Playbook. At the peak of their careers they spent time with young girls, but “never asked for anybody’s birth certificate,” he said.īritish media also reported that the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster has sent a letter to the pope to ask him to think about removing Savile’s papal knighthood amid the scandal. He didn’t name any stars, but said they had approached him to handle any possible fallout. Meanwhile, public relations guru Max Clifford told the Guardian that more than a dozen British celebrities from the 1960s and 1970s were “frightened to death” that they could be implicated in the Savile abuse scandal. The ITV documentary showed Savile defending Glitter for using the downloaded photos for his own “gratification” instead of selling them. He was later jailed for three years for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12 in Vietnam. Glitter was in 1999 convicted of downloading pornographic images of children. It has led to two internal probes at the public broadcaster.Ī recent ITV documentary that brought up the sexual abuse allegations against former Top of the Pops host Savile had also shown an old interview with Savile, in which he had defended Glitter. The scandal has rocked the BBC and its leadership, which has been criticized for ignoring signs of Savile’s behavior in the past and not launching a broad investigation earlier. The Scotland Yard investigation is looking at as many as 300 young abuse victims in the broader Savile scandal, the police had said late in the week.

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