A new documentary has shared a sickening clip of Rolf Harris joking with Jimmy Savile about leaving a young girl "safely in his arms".
Convicted sex abuser Harris and paedophile Savile appeared on television together in a 1976 episode of BBC show, Jim'll Fix It, reports the Mirror.
On the show, devised by Savile, he reads a letter saying: "It do say here, dear Jimmy, I have always wanted to see Rolf Harris doing one of his paintings, please could you fix it for me. Love, Lynn.”
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The camera then pans to the pair on stage, alongside a nervous-looking young girl. Savile says: “You see this young lady, sir? She wishes that she could help you with one of your paintings, do you think I may leave her in your charge?”
Harris replies: “Safely leave her in my capable hands here...”
Harris then begins to paint, and tells the young Lynn: "Enjoying it so far? Give them a big smile because they only see the back of your head otherwise, you see?”
Once the drawing is finished, Harris turns to Savile and says: "She is anxious to run away."
Savile replies: “She is, I’ve got fast hold of her here...” Harris says: “You stay here and enjoy it, girl.”
The pair of television stars also appeared in 1992 on Rolf's Cartoon Show, and attended a fete at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, touring a ward together.
The footage from Jim'll Fix it is part of a new ITV documentary called Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight - and there is no suggestion that Lynn was abused at the time.
The programme shows how Harris became a national treasure by painting the Queen's portrait in Buckingham Palace, but had allegedly been humiliating girls and sexually assaulting women for decades.
The documentary features the story of a woman known in court as Victim A, who was a family friend and became instrumental in gaining a conviction against the TV star in 2014.
The grooming of Harris’ daughter Bindi’s childhood friend from her early teens was key evidence that led to his deserved downfall.
Chip Somers, a therapist who spoke on behalf of Victim A for the first time, said of the claims: "In the second half of the 1990s, a woman came looking for help for an alcohol problem. And it became apparent there was a huge secret that she was holding on to.
“She was having an enormous amount of difficulty talking about.
“She had experienced prolonged instances of sexual abuse. And she has given me permission to talk about those experiences.
“She said ‘This person is very well-known, I’ve been part of the family for some time and I don’t know whether or not I should say the name’. I reassured her and she said ‘it is Rolf Harris’.
“She started to experience innocent physical contact. There was a specific point when it changed completely from anything that could be perceived as innocent.
“These things were happening both in his home, in her home, becoming more frequent, and she is also quite clearly told, ‘This is something that you cannot talk about. Do not tell anybody about this. This is our little secret. I am a powerful person, I have money, so tread carefully’.
“She was having to carry this incredible secret, this incredible sense of guilt and disgust and hatred.”
A number of other women have made claims of "degrading and awful" treatment by Harris over the years, and many have waived their anonymity on the subject.
One woman, Karen Gardner, met Harris on Star Games when she was 16, in 1977, and said he assaulted her three times in the space of 35 minutes.
She tells the programme: “He said something, which still makes me feel sick now. He said to me, ‘You’re irresistible.’ I was 16. He was 48. He was 10 years older than my dad.”
Harris was acquitted of assaulting Ms Gardner, who is now a BBC journalist, after the jury failed to reach a verdict. Former close family friend Chris Brosnan recalls that he once pulled over in his car and yelled at Harris when he made remarks that he would sleep with the young schoolgirls they had driven past.
Mr Brosnan also notes the resentment from Harris' daughter Bindi towards her father. Brosnan, known to the family as Bear, says: “I was privy to far more predatory behaviour than a lot of other people.
"There was this shadow that began to creep in more and more and more.
“I ended up promoting Rolf as an artist as well as playing in the band... being somebody organising shows.
“I started to notice resentment from Bindi towards her dad. She said it was to do with his behaviour toward one of her friends, something that her friend had revealed to her.
“And to tell you the truth I didn’t want to expand on it, I didn’t want to say ‘well what do you mean?’ I knew what she meant.
“I actually took it up with Rolf and he looked at me, cut me off, and he said ‘Bear, we’ve all made mistakes in life. And I’ve made some pretty big mistakes and let’s just leave it there’.”
In June 2014, Harris was found guilty of 12 counts of indecently assaulting four girls across the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
In court, Bindi Harris admitted learning about her father and Victim A in the late 1990s, but stated that the victim was 18 and the relationship was consensual.
Harris was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault, one of which was later overturned. He was released in May 2017 after serving three years of a five-year, nine-month sentence.
The convicted abuser now lives in Berkshire with his wife of 64 years, Alwen Hughes - who has Alzheimer's disease. Last October, it was reported that Harris was "gravely sick", according to friends and neighbours.
Harris, now 93, has not spoken out publicly since his release but provided a statement for a book last year saying he was “convicted of offences I did not commit”.
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