Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding was warned ‘don’t leave Jimmy Savile alone with kids’ when working on Jim’ll Fix It
BRIDGET Jones author Helen Fielding said the Jim'll Fix It team had a rule on set that Jimmy Savile shouldn't be left alone with children.
The writer, 61, who worked for the BBC show in her early 20s, claimed producers "must have known" about Savile's sickening behaviour.
Fielding talked about her role behind the scenes on the show after graduating from Oxford University during a conversation on stage with Alain de Botton.
Speaking about her time on the show, she told an audience at London's Emmanuel Centre: "We always said 'don't leave Jimmy alone with the children'.
"But we were sort of 23, and you know... I am sure the producers must have known.
"We didn't think he would do anything. But he was so creepy. We always stayed with the kids."
Savile was unmasked as one of Britain's worst paedophiles following his death at the age of 84 in 2011.
The former Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It presenter carried out a horrifying catalogue of abuse, attacking an estimated 1,000 victims - many of them kids.
The novelist, who studied English at Oxford, added: "I always had aspirations to be quite literary and intellectual... but I worked for Jim'll Fix It and things like that."
Fielding admitted she now feels uncomfortable watching the first Bridget Jones's Diary films in light of the #MeToo movement.