Jimmy Savile dies at home aged 84

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Jimmy Savile has died at his home aged 84.
The former presenter, most famous for his show Jim'll Fix It, passed away at his home in Leeds, according to Sky News.
Savile was just two days away from his 85th birthday.


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Former DJ and television presenter Sir Jimmy Savile has died, aged 84.

Savile, who was one of the most famous faces and voices on British TV and radio throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, died on Saturday.

His family programme, Jim'll Fix It, drew in huge audiences and the programme received 20,000 letters a week at the height of its popularity.

Savile started out as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 and was the first host of Top of the Pops in 1964.

He also appeared on the music show's final edition in 2006.

His TV persona included chunky gold jewellery, a huge cigar, his trademark snowy white hair and a number of catch-phrases which were frequently parodied by impressionists such as Mike Yarwood.

Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Savile was conscripted as a Bevin Boy, working in the coal mines during the war.

But he was one of the country's first DJs in the 1950s and began his broadcasting career at Radio Luxembourg before moving to the BBC.

Off screen he did a lot of charity work, running 200 marathons and raising £40m over the years.

Savile was knighted by the Queen in 1990 for his charity work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15507374

[deebakes]

never heard of the dude :-k

[Godfather]

Neither :-k

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i don't think anywhere but the UK would have tbh he was very strange

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:rip: jimmy

[JoeyB]

I've heard of him...been reading about him for years actually in the English websites I visit daily, but never saw him outside of still photos...

I'm a bit of an Anglophile. And yet, it's a strange sort of reflection you sometimes get of another culture when you are limited in your exposure to it...

[Noilly Pratt]

I even lived in GB for 4 months and I've never heard of him. Just the same...R.I.P., whoever ye may be!