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{{Infobox Person
| name        = Sir Jimmy Savile
| image       = Jimmy Savile PICT6249a.jpg
| image_size  = 150px
| caption     = 
| birth_name  = James Wilson Vincent Savile 
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1926|10|31}}
| birth_place = [[Leeds]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]]
(contracted; show full); [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|KCSG]] (born [[31 October]] [[1926]]), commonly known as '''Jimmy''' '''Savile''' (often misspelled 'Saville'), is an [[England|English]] [[DJ]], actor and television/ radio personality. He is best known for his [[BBC]] [[television show]] ''[[Jim'll Fix It]]'', in which he made the wishes of members of the public (mainly children) come true,
   and for bepresenting the first and the last presenteredition of ''[[Top of the Pops]]''.

==Early life==
Savile was born in [[Leeds]], where he resides to this day, one of 7 children born to Agnes Monica (Kelly) and Vincent Joseph Marie Savile, a [[bookmakers]] clerk and insurance agent.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/03/17/nosplit/ftwdet17.xml</ref> He was a [[Bevin Boy]], drafted during [[World War II]] to work as a [[coal miner]]. Having started playing records in dance halls in the early 40s, Sav(contracted; show full)

Jimmy is [[teetotal]]. 

A Rolls Royce driver, Savile is a member of the [[Institute of Advanced Motorists]]. At one point his 'personalised' car registration plate was ''HIS 1''. As he became successful he famously acquired a pink Rolls-Royce and in the 1960's and 70's was often seen around the Manchester area, particularily in Market Street before pedestrianisation.

He also has a [[bench]] in [[memory]] of himself with the 
[[words]] 'Jimmy Savile - but not just yet!' engraved on it, in [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], [[North Yorkshire]].

He has a long association with the [[Fort William, Highland|Fort William]] area of [[Scotland]] and ran part of the [http://www.bennevisrace.co.uk/index.html Ben Nevis Race] course several times in his younger days. He has had a house in [[Glen Coe]] for some years and lives there part of the time.  He has been Honorary [[Chiefs of the Name|Chieftain]] of the [http://www.lochaber.com/highlandgames/lochaber.htm Lochaber Highland Games] for 35 years and most years led the [[pipe band]] through Fort William to the Games. He could not do the final Top of the Pops live because of his commitment to the Lochaber Highland Games so it was recorded in the previous week.  He announced his retirement from the honorary post at the games on [[29 July]] [[2006]] but said he will continue as a "Special Friend" of the games. [http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=15028090&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch]

According to the BBC News website (15/11/07) in November 2007 the eighty-one year old Savile was "on [[15 November]] [[2007]], Savile (81) was "[[Mugging|mugged]]" by a fan who made off with his glasses whilstat a hotel in a [[Leeds, England hotel]], [[West Yorkshire]]. According to Savile, he was walking down a corridor of the Queens Hotel at around midnight after attending a function at the hotel when he became aware of a woman walking beside him. The former DJ assumed the woman was going to hug him but instead reached for his glasses before sprinting off down the corridor. On being mugged Savile later said "I thought it was marvellous, it was just like old times!". Savile has promised his 'assailant' a box of chocolates for  giving him a "50s (contracted; show full)[[Category:English television presenters]]
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