Peter Kay has recalled a creepy moment with late pervert, Jimmy Savile, in a brilliant new book of anecdotes from his career in television and stand-up.
Big Adventures on the Small Screen charts the 50-year old’s rise to become one of the nation’s best-loved comedians with previously unheard tales from Phoenix Nights, Car Share and Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere. The book also sees Kay look back on an interview with Savile, meanwhile, when the creep appeared as a guest on BBC Series, The Sunday Show.
Savile would later go on to appear in Kay’s parody video of Tony Christie’s 2005 Comic Relief single, (Is This the Way to) Amarillo, something Kay would look back on angrily.
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In an excerpt shared with the Mirror, Kay said he decided to “push the boat out” for his final Peter Kay’s World Of Entertainment segment by inviting Savile to join him. The Jim’ll Fix It presenter duly obliged – on the condition that he received £500 in cash and a £1,000 box of cigars.
Dad-of-one Kay described Savile’s showing as “very eccentric” adding that he “talked utter nonsense, spouting weird quotes, crap jokes, limericks” and made weird noises. Eccentricity aside, the comic said the only hint he got of Savile being “immoral” concerned his meeting with executive producer, Bridget Boseley.
Kay explained: “I remember she offered him her hand, which Jimmy took, then he flipped it round to kiss the back of it, but before his lips touched her skin I saw a quick flick of his tongue licking the back of her hand. Urgh! What was all that about? Bridget and I chatted about it later. She said, ‘He licked the back of my hand. ‘I know, I saw him, the dirty old perv’.”
A second encounter of sorts is also remembered in the book, which arrived shortly after Savile’s crimes had been exposed in an ITV documentary. Kay said he had been invited to join by BBC executives, musicians and actors at an event at BBC’s Media City, which had to be cut short as news of the scandal broke.
Kay said: “Everybody had gone apart from Peter Salmon (BBC Exec), Guy Garvey, Mr Tumble and me. The main corridor wall had a huge black and white mural featuring BBC icons from over the years. Michael Parkinson, Only Fools and Horses, Dad’s Army, that sort of thing. Just like wallpaper, the images repeated along the length of the wall.
“I’ll never forget Peter Salmon, he said, ‘Here, could you do me a favour?’ and he handed each of us a pile of big bright-yellow Children in Need Pudsey Bear stickers. ‘Could you find Savile and cover him up?’ So there we were, up step ladders trying to find every image of Jimmy Savile so we could cover him up (ironically just what the BBC had reportedly been doing for years). It was like some depraved Where’s Wally? Or Where’s Jimmy?”
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Last year on his return to touring Kay blasted “dirty s***house” Savile for ruining the legacy of ‘Amarillo’. He told the crowd: “Very popular at kids parties. Number one for seven weeks, biggest-selling song of that year and now thanks to Jimmy Savile it’s on YouTube with a paedophile warning.
“Thanks for that Jimmy… dirty s***house,” he exclaimed. At the time Kay had barely been seen in public since December 2017, when he cancelled a planned tour due to “unforeseen family circumstances”.
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