Louis Theroux reveals his 'confusion at quite liking Jimmy Savile'

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Louis Theroux has spoken of his regret that he once considered prolific sex offender Jimmy Savile to be a ‘likeable person’.

Reflecting on his relationship with Savile, which was forged when making the documentary When Louis Met Jimmy in 2000, and the subsequent revelations about the DJ’s crimes, Theroux, 48, tells today’s Desert Island Discs: ‘There is something very conflicting about reading about crimes and predatory activity while also knowing that this was someone you sort of quite liked and trying to square that in your own mind.

‘I remained in contact with him a little bit after I made the first programme. I am still a bit confused about how I was able to sort of experience him as a somewhat likeable person in the year or two after making it.’

Theroux was criticised for

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