Louis Theroux says he remembers hearing Jimmy Savile rumours as a child

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Louis Theroux has spoken of how, as a child, he heard rumours about Jimmy Savile being a paedophile. The only thing that felt odd later on was the idea that everyone in the playgrounds in the 1980s heard that rumour, so I can only imagine everyone involved in the media would have heard a rumour that there was something dodgy about.” However, Theroux pointed out that there were different levels of responsibility as he referred to the systematic failures that allowed Savile’s abuse to go on for so many years. “You only have to read the Janet Smith enquiry to realise that complaints were made and disregarded.” Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only. A 2016 review, commissioned by the BBC itself and led by English barrister and former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith, found that Savile had sexually abused or raped people at “virtually every one of the BBC premises where he worked”.