Louis Theroux Admits ‘Missed’ Chance To Get Jimmy Savile Sex Abuse Confession

Louis Theroux has admitted that he mentally revisits his Jimmy Savile 10-day interview - and tries to work out how he missed his chance to unmask him as a paedophile.

The 44-year-old broadcaster also claims that he might have stopped Savile abusing for a year.

He says evidence suggests that no allegations were made against Savile for the year Theroux filmed him.

Theroux famously spent more than a week grilling the former DJ and television icon, making his BBC documentary series ‘When Louis Met’.

Despite unparalleled access to the child sex pervert, Louis failed to uncover the truth.

But Louis says - despite feeling a failure - he has studied records, which seem to show that during the year the controversial programme was filmed, no Savile abuse took place.

Louis made his comments on comedian Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre podcast.

Louis said: “I have grappled with, as someone who made a documentary about him, spent 10 days with him and failed to reveal the fact that he was one of the most prolific sex offenders of modern times possibly.

"I feel a sense of responsibility. I’m trying to go back and figure out how did I miss that?

’"But there is a little bar chart where they have collated all the reported incidents of offences and do you know that [in the year] I was with him for 10 days or so, there is no victims?”

Louis - who also interviewed sex fiend Max Clifford - confessed that he has re-watched the show, to find out where he went wrong.

He added: “I think none of us wants to believe that someone we know is a sex offender.

"I knew when I was making it there was his sexual side that I had not fully understood. With Jimmy Savile, clearly no one really knew.

"But I knew there was a question that hadn’t been answered to do with what his interests were.”

Louis went on to explain how close he had come to revealing Savile’s dark secret, during a scene in a room where he kept his dead mother’s clothes.

He had begun to ask him about what his interests were, but rather than push with questions, he doesn’t “nail it”.

Louis said: “When I look back, that is the moment it’s in my hand and it sort of slips away.”