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Title: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: mantagte on 29 October 2011, 15:18:17
RIP JIM you fixed it for lots :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: PhilRich on 29 October 2011, 15:44:17
Cor what a bloke! As English as a stick of rock and an act that will never be bettered! RIP Mr. Jimmy Saville OBE :'(
P.S. I bet 'The Duchess' was waiting alongside St Peter with a nice hot cuppa! :y
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: s7eve v6 24v on 29 October 2011, 15:45:00
he never fixed it for me when i wrote him a letter when i was about 8 years old  :'(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: omegod on 29 October 2011, 15:48:22
he never fixed it for me when i wrote him a letter when i was about 8 years old  :'(

Me neither, wanted to be a zookeeper for a day.

Top english nutter who will be missed, bet the cranks come out of the woodwork spilling the beans on him now.
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Post by: Jusme on 29 October 2011, 15:52:26
R.I.P. Jimmy, a sad day...  :'(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Richie London on 29 October 2011, 15:57:32
he never fixed it for me when i wrote him a letter when i was about 8 years old  :'(

now then now then.
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: hercules on 29 October 2011, 16:19:00
a sad loss,another part of england gone :(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: cleggy on 29 October 2011, 16:38:41
The worlds first disc jockey, at a dancehall in Leeds using his mothers record player. Caused an outrage with the musicians union who until his innovation all music was played live.
An ICON  R.I.P job well done  :'(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: bored bigyin54 on 29 October 2011, 17:46:57
RIP jimmy one of the best
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: pauls on 29 October 2011, 19:18:45
Sad loss..at school i was always asked if he was my dad. Both have the same surname. :'(
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Post by: The Red Baron on 29 October 2011, 19:30:26
great loss, was a top bloke. :'(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: millwall on 29 October 2011, 19:59:11
very sad news he did untold work for charaties   rip :(
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Post by: SIR Philbutt on 29 October 2011, 20:46:51
RIP Jimmy - can wait to see the tribute progs - great memories
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 29 October 2011, 22:19:25
One thing's for sure. If there is an afterlife Jimmys fixing it upstairs!  ;) :y  RIP  :'(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Terbs on 30 October 2011, 00:56:55
I hate to see anyone pass away :( but I have to be honest, I could not stand the bloke. I appreciate what he did with his charity work (Stoke Mandeville, etc) and I applaud him for that, he was second to none.....but to watch him on the telly was, to me was......excrutiating :)
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: hoofing it on 30 October 2011, 07:51:22
At least this gem of a guy died at home in leeds and not at his house in Glencoe,not many neigbours about :(
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: jerry on 30 October 2011, 08:41:05
Whilst I readily acknowledge the huge amount of money raised by him for charity I cant but agree with terbert here. To me there was always something "not quite right" about him and Im afraid I mean that more in a slightly "creepy old man" sense than "atypical eccentric Englishman". Whatever your feelings on Louis Theroux certainly Sir Jimmy didnt come out too well in that documentary. As for the persistent rumours around his sexual preferences or his masonic links who knows. Doesnt seem to be any hard evidence to back up a lot of the former claims at all but I dont doubt that there was a "darker" side to the man in some sense :-\
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: TheBoy on 30 October 2011, 09:21:48
I used to live a few hundred yards from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and he was a familiar sight there. I've had the pleasure of meeting him in his apartment there.

Eccentric, unique, either love or loath, he did an awful lot for charity. RIP
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 30 October 2011, 09:28:36
Whilst I readily acknowledge the huge amount of money raised by him for charity I cant but agree with terbert here. To me there was always something "not quite right" about him and Im afraid I mean that more in a slightly "creepy old man" sense than "atypical eccentric Englishman". Whatever your feelings on Louis Theroux certainly Sir Jimmy didnt come out too well in that documentary. As for the persistent rumours around his sexual preferences or his masonic links who knows. Doesnt seem to be any hard evidence to back up a lot of the former claims at all but I dont doubt that there was a "darker" side to the man in some sense :-\



Yes, I'm inclined to agree with a lot of that Jerry but - as TB says - would acknowledge his many charitable works.

Very much a 'Marmite' character I would suggest (especially amongst his contemporaries in the business).
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 30 October 2011, 10:53:01
Slightly strange oddball eccentric. Never married. Kept all his dead mother's clothes. Did many good things for charity. I liked him. An enigma.
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Lioned on 30 October 2011, 17:15:12
Always a bit creepy and many rumours about having a 'darker' side,there have been but a few quite guarded tributes that i have seen for such a well known celebrity.And he lied (or forgot) about never having been to Jersey childrens home Haut de la Garenne,when the police claimed he'd been there several times and had pictures of him sitting out on the lawn with the children.   
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: redelitev6 on 30 October 2011, 17:26:38
Whilst I readily acknowledge the huge amount of money raised by him for charity I cant but agree with terbert here. To me there was always something "not quite right" about him and Im afraid I mean that more in a slightly "creepy old man" sense than "atypical eccentric Englishman". Whatever your feelings on Louis Theroux certainly Sir Jimmy didnt come out too well in that documentary. As for the persistent rumours around his sexual preferences or his masonic links who knows. Doesnt seem to be any hard evidence to back up a lot of the former claims at all but I dont doubt that there was a "darker" side to the man in some sense :-\
 :-\ Lets be honest, how many of us don't have a "dark side"?
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Rods2 on 30 October 2011, 21:13:57
RIP a classic eccentric Englishman. Achieved much good in his life and entertained millions of people, for which I'm sure he will be remembered.  :y
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: cam2502 on 31 October 2011, 13:59:42
Whilst I readily acknowledge the huge amount of money raised by him for charity I cant but agree with terbert here. To me there was always something "not quite right" about him and Im afraid I mean that more in a slightly "creepy old man" sense than "atypical eccentric Englishman". Whatever your feelings on Louis Theroux certainly Sir Jimmy didnt come out too well in that documentary. As for the persistent rumours around his sexual preferences or his masonic links who knows. Doesnt seem to be any hard evidence to back up a lot of the former claims at all but I dont doubt that there was a "darker" side to the man in some sense :-\
agree with every word you said. i remember watching the louis theroux film and thinking he was just plain mean!
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: millwall on 31 October 2011, 17:11:32
now then now then hows about that then ;D  jimmy was a bit oddball but had a heart of gold :y
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Webby the Bear on 31 October 2011, 17:43:28
what happened in the louis theroux doc??? didnt see that.
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: jerry on 31 October 2011, 23:19:33
Think bits of it are still on youtube Webby. He talks about his time running nightclubs and puts in a slightly NormanBates turn where he keeps all of his (deceased) mum's clothes still in her old flat. As for the latter,well everyone deals with grief differently but he makes some rather strange unguarded comments which sort of go against his more public personna should I say....
Title: Re: RIP Jimmy Saville
Post by: Webby the Bear on 01 November 2011, 13:33:32
Think bits of it are still on youtube Webby. He talks about his time running nightclubs and puts in a slightly NormanBates turn where he keeps all of his (deceased) mum's clothes still in her old flat. As for the latter,well everyone deals with grief differently but he makes some rather strange unguarded comments which sort of go against his more public personna should I say....

nice! i hope her rotten corpse aint kept in the basement!  :o