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PMSL...........Nice one........
Female Radio Presenter reads a text sent in to radio Ulster
"I wish everyone would stop criticising Jimmy Saville, he was a nice man; When I was 8, he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded"
Male R P
"Thats a strange one"
Female R P
"Ummmm, and actually on the points of texts and tweets, unfortunately earlier in the prgramme I was the victim of a prank text about Jimmy Saville, which I mistakenly read out rather naively. I am very sorry if Ive a caused any offence; Apologies, it was a genuine mistake"
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Jimmy Savile let me milk cow blindfolded - prank text BBC Radio Ulster reporter red-faced, Ricky Gervais in stitches
By Amanda Poole
Monday, 29 October 2012
An audio clip of a BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster being duped into reading out a joke about Jimmy Savile on air has gone viral on the internet.
Good Morning Ulster presenter Karen Patterson apologised during Friday?s show after falling victim to a prank text.
During a discussion about the late children?s television presenter ? now at the centre of rape and sex abuse allegations ? Ms Patterson read out a text billed as ?an alternative view on the Jimmy Savile story?.
It said: ?I wish everyone would stop criticising Jimmy Savile. He was a nice man. When I was eight he fixed it for me to milk a cow blind-folded.?
After the embarrassing blunder was brought to the BBC?s attention, the presenter immediately apologised.
She said: ?I am very sorry if I have caused any offence, but apologies, it was a genuine mistake.?
A YouTube clip of the astonishing radio gaffe has now been heard more than 250,000 times. And, on Twitter, award winning comedian Ricky Gervais brought the clip to the attention of his 3.3m followers, urging them to listen to it.
?I promise this is the funniest thing you will hear today,? he told them.
?The apology is even funnier than the blunder.?
Given the details that have emerged over the last few weeks of the horrific abuse children and young adults were subjected to by Savile, Gervais then pondered why anyone would relay a message in support of the disgraced former BBC presenter.
Gervais? Twitter comments on the micro-blogging site have since been reposted by others around 3,500 times.
Savile's closest relatives broke their silence to say their "own despair and sadness does not compare to that felt by the victims" who were abused by the late TV presenter.
In a statement released by Savile's nephew, Roger Foster, the family said: "How could the person we thought we knew and loved do such a thing?
"Why would a man who raised so much money for charity, who gave so much of his own time and energy for others, risk it all doing indecent criminal acts? How could anyone live their life doing the 'most good and most evil' at the same time?"
The statement, released to the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper, explains why the family wanted Savile's headstone removed, even though it had been unveiled only a couple of weeks earlier.
The family said: "We became more aware of the outrage that many members of the public were feeling. We took the decision to remove and destroy the headstone so that it couldn't become a focus for malicious people.
"The decision was a difficult one to make, but we knew it was the right one."
They family said their "thoughts" and "prayers" were with those who had suffered abuse.
"We recognise that even our own despair and sadness does not compare to that felt by the victims," they said. They said their "feelings are in turmoil" as they await the next turn of events.
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