Piers Morgan: did he meet Jimmy Savile or didn't he?

 
24 October 2012

Piers Morgan likes to say “one minute you’re cock of the walk, the next you’re a feather duster”. But did he ever give this advice to Jimmy Savile?

Some bright spark has been circulating on Twitter an old column of Morgan’s from the Mail on Sunday's Night & Day magazine in 2009. It said: “As I left, Jimmy Savile came up to me. ‘Your TV shows are BRILLIANT!’ he exclaimed. ‘And as I’ve been in the telly business for 50 years, you can take that as an informed view.’ I’ve always loved Jimmy Savile.”

Compare and contrast this with another Mail on Sunday column by Morgan this month. “The Jimmy Savile scandal grows more horrific by the minute,” writes Morgan. “I never met him...”

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