Vanessa Feltz said Rolf Harris “knew” she “couldn’t do anything” about him allegedly groping her live on TV. The disgraced Australian entertainer, who died on May 10 aged 93, was a family favourite for decades before being convicted of a string of indecent assaults in June 2014.
On Wednesday, Feltz recalled to This Morning an incident during a segment when she was presenting Channel 4’s morning talk show The Big Breakfast – which previously aired from 1992 to 2002. When she was the on-the-bed interviewer, Feltz said “she could hear” her dress being “scrunched up” by Harris.
“I was absolutely shocked because it’s Rolf Harris, for goodness sake, that we all adored,” she said. “And also (it was) live on telly. And also, it’s a daytime, lovely show with lots of kids watching…. so I couldn’t say, ‘Get your hand off my leg’, or, ‘Stop touching me’.”
