Freddie Starr has addressed "false allegations" that he groped an under-age girl in the late Jimmy Savile's dressing room, declaring that if stress over the scandal kills him "my gravestone [will say], 'I told you I was innocent'." The 69-year-old comedian, who had a quadruple bypass last year, again denied claims by a woman named Karen Ward that he propositioned her in the 1970s when she was only 14. Speaking on ITV1's This Morning, Starr - accompanied by fiancée Sophie Lea - stated that he would "never in a million years" have groped an under-age girl, and insisted that he didn't associate with female fans even at a time when his "shirt [was getting] ripped off" by admirers. "I never allowed people in my dressing room," he told presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. "I did (more)...
- 10/10/2012
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Freddie Starr's fiancée has denied "horrendous" allegations that the comedian groped an under-age girl at a Jimmy Savile party, saying that the stress is "making him so ill". Starr has strenuously denied claims by a woman named Karen Ward that he "groped and propositioned" her in Savile's dressing room back in the 1970s when she was aged 14. Speaking on today's (October 9) edition of ITV1's This Morning via a live phone link, Starr's partner Sophie Lea branded the allegations "absolutely nonsense". "I know Freddie myself, I've known him for a long time before we even got together, and when I was working with him on stage never once did he make any advances towards me," she stated. "He would never ever grope a girl or a woman regardless of their age - he has never done it in his (more)...
- 10/9/2012
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
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