Rolf Harris assaulted me on Blue Peter & BBC left alone with Savile – they should’ve protected me, says Yve...

ON the surface Blue Peter was a happy ship, where cheery presenters demonstrated the power of sticky-backed plastic and inspired Britain’s youth.But Yvette now speaks of the culture of fear and intimidation behind the show

“She’d sit behind this desk and basically tell me I was fat, I was useless, and at one point she said, ‘The only thing you’re good at is being withNetflix drops harrowing first trailer for Jimmy Savile documentary exposing the 'evil within' monster paedophileBiddy, now 90, who was in charge of Blue Peter from 1962 to 1988, had selected Yvette as the show’s new presenter.

She tells The Sun: “It was very confusing and shocking — just bizarre to think Rolf Harris was squeezing and patting my bottom and I am standing there, thinking, ‘I don’t know what to do. Many of his victims felt that he had been able to carry out so many attacks because complaints were swept under the carpet.

“From what I heard, certain things were brushed under the carpet — and that should never, ever have happened.” After the turn of the century Yvette became more of a stay-at-home mum, caring for Mary and her son William, from her first marriage to cop Barry Sweeney.

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