Jimmy Savile Net Worth

Jimmy Savile's Quotes

• He's a sabra. A sabra is an Israeli fruit that's prickly on the outside and all soft and lovely inside. That's Jonathan King.
• Don't try and get people to like you, but try to make sure they don't DISlike you.
• I've got everything. What have I got left in life? To wake up tomorrow. Because if tomorrow is as good as today, that'll do for me.
• Question One: Am I doing my thing at the cost of somebody else? Answer: No. Question Two: Am I doing my thing and getting plenty? Answer: Yes. Now if I'm a bit lucky, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't spread it about a bit, maybe, and make somebody else a bit lucky.
• [comment by Ted Beston, the producer of his radio show] "Right from the start, we got on well together. If there was something I didn't agree with, or he didn't agree with, we'd sort it out. And at the end, we'd decide that *he* was right."

Interesting Facts about Jimmy Savile

1. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1972 Queen's New Years Honours List and was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to entertainment and charity.
2. Attended St. Anne's Roman Catholic School in Leeds, England.
3. Injured, although apparently not seriously, in a gas fire accident in England.
4. Was a "Bevin Boy" at the end of World War 2: drafted to work in the coal mines (between 10% and 15% of conscripts were sent to the mines rather than into the military).
5. His Radio Luxembourg programme for Decca in the early 60s, was known as 'The Teen & Twenty Disc Club'.
6. Was once voted tie-man of the year.
7. Was a member of MENSA.
8. Has run in many marathons and is thought to have helped raise over £40,000,000 for charitable causes.
9. Was a successful respected advertising icon in the 1970s. His most remembered advert was for the "wear seat belts" campaign called "clunk click every trip", which lead to widespread take-up of seat belt use. He has also advertised train journeys "let the train take the strain" and "this is the age of the train", Green Shield Stamps, Bisto Gravy (with his mother), Startrite Shoes and Dale Farm Yoghurts.
10. Before retirement often volunteered for patient portering duties at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Bucks.
11. Once pretended to be his own brother by wearing a short haired dark wig.
12. His second appearance on This Is Your Life (1955) is thought to have been a mistake by Thames TV, who had not only lost the recording of his first appearance but had completely forgotten that he had already appeared previously.
13. In 1962 Jimmy attempted to launch a recording career on Decca Records with the single "Ahab the Arab" written by Ray Stevens, this and its follow up "The Bossa Nova" sank quietly without trace.
14. In October 2009 traded in his ancient Volkswagen Camper van for a new model which he uses to travel the country.
15. In November 2009 he received an honorary degree in the arts from the University of Bedfordshire for his lifelong support of the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK. He particularly supported Stoke Mandeville because he had sustained a spinal injury (from which he eventually made a full recovery) as a result of a tunnel roof-fall while he was working as a coal miner in the 1940s. In October 2012, the university announced that the degree would be posthumously rescinded following a series of sexual abuse allegations made against him following his death.
16. He called his beloved mother by the nick-name of "The Duchess".
17. Once lived in a caravan in the back of the BBC car-park.
18. Created the "Double Deck" that could play two vinyl records back-to-back.
19. Gave the name to the show Top of the Pops (1964).
20. He held the first UK Disco.