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Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile (ITV1)
With the benefit of hindsight, it's impossible to watch Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile together on television without feeling a bit queasy.
'Do young ladies go to great lengths to get next to you,' asked Savile, in a clip shown on Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile.
Just the way Savile says 'young ladies' is enough to make your stomach turn. As it was at the time, to be honest.
'Yeah, thank goodness,' says Glitter. 'I'm having a look round the audience now.'
'We've got some bean bags for you,' says Savile. 'We always line our artists up.' How did we not know? They were so obvious. Or perhaps we did know.
Gary Glitter at home in 1972. The convicted child sex abuser is the subject of new ITV1 documentary Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile
The documentary examines how Glitter was able to abuse children for so long undetected
Glitter was renowned for his eccentric outfits and high-energy music - before the glam rock icon was unmasked as a serial sex offender
Gary Glitter is currently serving a 16 year prison sentence in the UK for abusing three schoolgirls, having lost a Parole Board bid for freedom earlier this year
In 1992, Glitter was interviewed by Paula Yates on The Big Breakfast. 'Who do you coach down to your house?' asked Paula.
