ITV’s two-part documentary about a fearless abuser
In a 2006 interview to celebrate receiving his CBE, Rolf Harris was asked why he was so popular. “I guess it’s because I’m real,” said the entertainer, whose death aged 93 was reported this week. “I’m not putting over a huge, phoney facade. The bloke you see up on the screen is the same bloke you meet by the stage door.” It was, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph, a “brazen lie, as we now know”. Harris was convicted of child sex offences in 2014, and was later “stripped of that CBE”.
