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Esther Rantzen is the Biggest disgrace in showbiz.
Does anyone else find it a disgrace that Esther Rantzen, the so called child campaigner. clearly knew plenty about Saville and co but didn't say a word. And since this was revealed she has been given both a dame hood and mum of the year. She deserves to be in jail for perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender and striped of all her honours. How she ever can preach about child line while willing allowing child abuse is a disgrace.
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You heard the rumours too. Which police station shall you be handing yourself in to in the morning?
Rumours aren't evidence.
What are you suggesting she did? Go to the police and say "Sorry to bother you officer but I've heard rumours about Jimmy Savile having a thing for young girls". Yeah she could have perhaps done that but how is not doing that perverting the course of justice? She had no evidence. I think one victim claimed they'd told her an allegation but she denied this happened and the victim I think refused to give any details when she asked for them. So who knows. I think it's a big jump to suggest she was somehow involved in a conspiracy to stop justice against him.
She stuck her nose in as if she was some sort of public crusader but she had all her facts entirely wrong and when I pointed that out politely, she launched into a huge expletive-laden tirade at me.
I also know someone who works in Z list publicity and he says she is literally the worst person he's ever had to deal with (although I assume going by other threads on here that he's never met Cilla Black )
Rumours can be started by people who could have a grudge against you. Even though we now know that Savile was indeed a paedophile, Esther could have simply thought back then that someone had started a nasty rumour about someone that did a lot of charity work. I mean, how could someone who did a lot of charity work and was loved be a paedophile?
Of course she had heard the rumours. She could have at least asked questions, but no, like others who heard the same, she kept quiet for fear of causing waves. They all thought of their careers first. She came out of the whole thing looking very shifty imo. She knew she could have looked further into the rumours, but she didn't.>:(
How do you that she didn't ask questions?
You nailed it. Rumours are rumours, but when they are that serious, and you run a childline, you should AT LEAST look into it if you are in a position to do so. No excuses, she's a hypocrite!
I find it more of a disgrace that you have started a thread such as this unfairly laying the blame at the door of one woman who heard some rumours , like many many others heard gossip and rumour , one cannot act on gossip alone and as we have seen gossip led to one man being burned alive by his neighbours. You will have heard gossip and guessing on these very forums, can you tell me which police station you have been to report all you have heard ? after all if you haven't then you too must by your own rules be a disgrace and deserve priosn.
I find it quite distasteful that you have decided to single out one lady who has in fact done so much for children and charity , call her the biggest disgrace in show business and call for her to be jailed and mention nothing much of those who have actually carried out abuse.
It is oh so easy to blame others after the fact and very convenient, why have you decided to single out Esther Rantzen alone, or did it just make a good thread title for your alleged outrage .
In your case I would say the saying "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is more than apt.
Because she admitted in interviews that she didn't look into it. She said something about how the whole country was to partly complicit for making Saville an untouchable celebrity. That made me mad, sounded like she was deflecting any complicity from her. disgusting woman.
Esther went out with Nicholas Fairbairn.....another Paedophille.
Edwina almost laughs off the fact that Savile had the keys to Broadmoor, when she and Ken Clarke were in charge.
Thatcher knew about Cyril Smith, Peter Hayman etc
As a woman, I find their complicity beyond disgusting.
They will never be held accountable.....absolutely shameful.>:(
I agree >:(
It's Dame Esther don't you know.😝😜😜
considering how big her beak is it would be hard for her not to put her nose in, agree with you that is is the rudest vile woman on a par with Black & Lulu.
I have never met Savile. Never had anything to do with showbiz. Never worked for the BBC or the NHS. Never lived within 200 miles of the man.
I heard the rumours. Everyone heard the rumours.
Hearing a rumour is not evidence.
So I didn't go to the police either.
Lock me up NOW!!!!!!!!!
I'm not entirely sure why you are singling out Esther Ranzen for the title of the biggest disgrace.
Don't forget there is still abuse and abusers happening today, anybody phoning the police today about current rumours?
The lure of celebrity today is even bigger than it was in the 70s, you only need to look at all these X factor type shows where the young kids come on and say this is the thing they want most in life, all crying and emotional when all they are doing is singing a song to a panel of judges. Kids like this are open to abuse and exploitation because of the power people who run these shows hold over them.
I'm glad you've said that because you're right. Everything is so much clearer in retrospect. Yet, it will be happening somewhere now and it would be sad if some years on we go round the cycle again with a 'new' batch of abusers who weren't stopped because they used their money, power and influence to intimidate both their victims and those in a position to stop them.