Coleen Nolan reveals paedophile Jimmy Savile invited her up to his hotel suite when she was just 14 

Coleen Nolan has revealed how paedophile Jimmy Savile invited her up to his hotel suite when she was just 14, after a Prime Of The Pops recording.

Coleen – who was a part of pop group The Nolans – speaks concerning the incident on the upcoming version of Piers Morgan‘s Life Tales, set to air on Thursday. 

Commenting on a clip from Prime Of The Pops that includes Savile, the Loose Women presenter, 56, advised Piers: ‘ when it got here out about Jimmy Savile I wasn’t in any method shocked, fascinated with it.

‘I was 14 there and that very same evening, he requested me to go to his hotel. He mentioned he had a suite in a hotel and I ought to go up and see it and he’d take care of me.

‘Properly on the time I just thought you soiled outdated man. As if I am going to go up there, I would not do it anyway. I’ve received 4 sisters on the stage that might have overwhelmed the crap out of him.’

Savile, who was one of many BBC’s greatest stars, spent a long time grooming, molesting and raping youngsters. 

It is feared the predator, who died in 2011 aged 84, had abused up to 1,000 youngsters, with some as younger as two years outdated.

Revelations as latest as final month have come out of the woodwork since his dying, with the most recent involving baby trafficking.

Police have launched a probe after a Scottish lady claims she was trafficked to England within the Eighties to be abused by the paedophile TV star.

The lady, from Midlothian, advised the Every day Report how she was transported to a Leeds hotel, the place Savile subjected her to a vile intercourse assault. 

It was additionally lately reported that he was nonetheless abusing girls in 2006 aged 79 when the BBC introduced him again to host the final ever Prime Of The Pops.

The ‘monstrous’ entertainer indecently assaulted a lady after filming the episode with presenters Edith Bowman and Reggie Yates, a long-awaited report revealed, as additional particulars of the shamed Jim’ll Repair It star’s heinous crimes have been made public on the finish of February.

Savile’s horrific reign of abuse dated again to 1959 when he raped a 13-year-old lady, earlier than assaults adopted ‘within the corridors, canteens, staircases and dressing rooms of each BBC premises’.

Different vile crimes uncovered included the rape of each a virgin teenager in a hotel and a 15-year-old work expertise lady he met within the BBC canteen over a cup of tea.

Twenty considered one of Savile’s feminine victims have been aged 15 or youthful, the youngest being eight, whereas younger boys – together with an eight-year-old – have been additionally preyed on.

He even had a ‘London Staff’ – a bunch of schoolgirls he handled like his private harem – who have been often waved into his dressing room by a BBC receptionist earlier than the filming of Prime Of The Pops. 

There, one sufferer mentioned she and others ‘did no matter Savile advised them’ earlier than later collaborating within the present. Savile organized for the group to seem on the rostrum – and in activate tv – however solely on the situation that every time he might select one of many women to have intercourse with.

One other of Savile’s victims was a 12-year-old lady from Scotland. She was sexually assaulted in a Prime of the Pops dressing room after seeing the DJ rape a 10-year-old boy whereas nonetheless carrying a Womble costume.

Afterwards the presenter put an arm spherical every of them and advised them that what had occurred was a ‘secret’.

In one other incident he had a 19-year-old lady meet him at a transportable company hospitality cabin in Shepherds Bush, west London, earlier than forcibly kissing and groping her behind a curtain whereas smoking a cigar in a smoke-filled room.

When she ran out and complained to Savile’s radio producer Ted Beston the sufferer ‘was handled as if she was fooling around’, the report by retired decide Dame Janet Smith discovered. 

It additionally emerged BBC bosses missed 5 alternatives to snare the ‘untouchable’ star as he molested victims over a interval of 5 a long time.

Savile struck on the BBC Theatre at Shepherd’s Bush, the place Jim’ll Repair It and Clunk Click on have been filmed, Tv Centre the place Prime Of The Pops was filmed, and Broadcasting Home.

If employees did dare try to report him they have been advised ‘preserve your mouth shut, he’s a VIP’, the evaluate discovered, whereas a parallel inquiry into paedophile Stuart Corridor revealed BBC bosses have been conscious – or ought to have been – that the It is a Knockout presenter was abusing women.

Regardless of the revelations, Dame Janet controversially mentioned the company’s failure to cease Savile and Corridor was not the fault of senior managers. 

It additionally emerged rumours have been abound that Savile owned a caravan he used to drive round and perform wicked sexual assaults, whereas the studios the place he offered Prime of the Pops have been mentioned to resemble scenes from a Carry On movie.

With the set awash with younger women, employees locked doorways and even cabinets to their places of work and hospitality rooms amid rumours of what the DJ received up to away from the cameras, one of many BBC’s ex-editors mentioned.

The ex-husband of presenter Anne Diamond, Mike Hollingsworth, added: ‘I recall Savile proudly owning a Winnebago, which he used for the occasional stopovers in London. 

‘There have been rumours, in fact, about what he used it for however as a result of he was a loner, nobody ever appeared to truly see if something untoward was occurring.’ 

Regardless of senior administration claiming to do not know about Jimmy Savile’s paedophilia, rumours that he favored younger women have been rife amongst a number of the high stars on the BBC, it additionally emerged.

From Lord Michael Grade to Dame Esther Rantzen, Chinese language whispers had travelled. 

There have been tales of him licking a younger lady’s hand, jokes about him ‘screwing minors’ and that he was a necrophiliac, however they have been by no means investigated on the time.

Dame Janet’s long-awaited evaluate discovered there was a tradition of ‘reverence and concern’ in the direction of celebrities on the company and that ‘an environment of concern nonetheless exists at this time within the BBC’.

When a junior feminine worker at Tv Centre complained to her supervisor that she had been sexually assaulted by Savile, she was advised ‘preserve your mouth shut, he’s a VIP’, the report discovered.

Dame Janet mentioned women who dared to complain about being sexually assaulted have been thought to be ‘a nuisance’ and their claims not correctly handled.

Eight complaints about Savile’s behaviour have been made to BBC employees as early because the late Nineteen Sixties, however every time they have been dismissed or not escalated up the chain of command.

In late 1989 or early 1990 Savile caught his hand up a feminine junior worker’s skirt at Tv Centre. The lady, referred to as C51, complained to her boss however was advised ‘preserve your mouth shut, he’s a VIP’.

Greater than a decade earlier, in November 1976, Savile was in entrance of the rolling cameras presenting Prime of the Pops when he put his hand beneath the underside of a member of the viewers subsequent to him.

She leapt into the air and later complained to a BBC worker, however her accusation was shrugged off and she was advised it was ‘just Jimmy Savile mucking about’.

Within the mid-Seventies Ian Hampton, bass participant with the pop group Sparks, additionally tried to elevate the alarm. He had heard rumours that Savile had intercourse with under-age women and noticed him leaving the Prime of the Pops studio with a younger lady.

The guitarist alerted a BBC presenter, however was advised ‘not to be foolish’, whereas on one other event he spoke to producer Robin Nash, however was advised ‘not to be ridiculous’.

Dame Janet mentioned there was a tradition of not reporting complaints on the BBC from the Seventies proper the way in which via to the Nineties, and a concern of claiming something which may ‘rock the boat’.

She warned there was a selected concern of whistleblowing on the company and ‘I was advised that an environment of concern nonetheless exists at this time within the BBC’.

She added: ‘As I’ve mentioned, there was a tradition of not complaining about something. The tradition of not complaining a couple of member of the Expertise was even stronger.

‘Members of the Expertise, resembling Savile, have been to an actual diploma protected against criticism.

‘The primary cause for that is due to a deference and even adulation which was, and nonetheless could be, accorded to celeb in our society. 

‘The second cause was due to the perspective inside the BBC towards the Expertise. The proof I heard prompt that the Expertise was handled with child gloves and barely challenged.’

She added: ‘There was a sense of reverence for them and a concern that, if a star have been crossed, he or she would possibly depart the BBC.’

Coleen’s band The Nolans fashioned in 1974 and featured Coleen’s sisters Maureen, Anne, Linda, Bernie and Denise.

In her sit-down Piers, she additionally talks about how her household has been ‘cursed’ with most cancers, revealing she is trying into having a double mastectomy after her sisters Anne and Linda have been identified with most cancers final 12 months. 

Coleen’s sister Linda, 62, has secondary most cancers which has unfold from her hip to her liver, whereas their different sibling Anne, 71, accomplished remedy for breast most cancers in November.

Bernie Nolan was identified with breast most cancers in 2010. She died in July 2013, aged 52. 

The presenter mentioned a hereditary gene within the household means there’s an ‘extremely excessive’ probability she might develop most cancers. 

In accordance to The Mirror, she tells Piers: ‘I am severely trying into elective mastectomy. I’ve spoken to a specialist thus far to see.

‘I’ve mentioned, “look what are my possibilities of this” and he mentioned, “extremely excessive” and though we do not carry the gene – the recognized gene BRCA1 and BRCA2 – he mentioned it will likely be gene associated someplace, it is going to just be a gene we haven’t discovered.’

Through the interview, Coleen tears up as Piers exhibits her a clip the place Linda admits she is terrified of dying.

Coleen says: ‘She’s all the time sturdy and is all the time optimistic. That is the primary I’ve heard her say that, that she’s terrified of dying and would not need to die.’

Coleen went on to say how Linda has scans each three months and the final time she went, docs advised her that her most cancers has unfold from her hip to her liver.   

The Unfastened Girls star mentioned most cancers feels ‘like a curse’ on the household. 

Bernie underwent chemotherapy and a mastectomy and introduced in February 2012 that she was cancer-free.

Nevertheless, months later she shared the heartbreaking information that her most cancers had unfold to her mind, lungs, liver and bones. She died in July 2013.

Siblings Linda and Anne started chemotherapy at Blackpool’s Victoria Hospital final July.

They acquired information of their shock diagnoses inside days of one another, shortly after the sisters returned from filming a sequence of The Nolans Go Cruising in March.

After the sisters acquired their heartbreaking diagnoses, Maureen moved in with Anne and Linda relocated to her sister Denise’s Blackpool house.

Anne’s prognosis got here 20 years after she was first identified with the illness in 2000.

Again in December, the singer mentioned her most cancers has ‘disappeared’ after present process a course of chemotherapy. 

She mentioned: ‘My most cancers has disappeared principally. I am nonetheless having remedy to go ahead but it surely’s roughly gone, yeah. It is wonderful.’

Sister Linda who appeared on the present remotely from her Blackpool house, revealed she too was optimistic concerning the future after efficiently finishing remedy in September. 

She mentioned: It’s not curable, so I will likely be on medicine presumably for the remainder of my life, however so long as it really works that is high-quality. It’s onerous not to be optimistic with this lot round as a result of they’re all stuffed with it, so it’s nice, we have had such a good time spending time collectively.’ 

Piers Morgan’s Life Tales airs on Thursday at 9pm on ITV.