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Chris became aware of rumours of an inappropriate relationship between Harris and a close friend of his daughter that had caused a rift in the family: “I actually took it up with Rolf and, you know, 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.'" One member of his band, Chris Brosnan, known to Harris as Bear, became his promoter and started working from his house. In the 1990s, he achieved chart success and huge acclaim with his cover versions of classic rock songs. While the women and girls he assaulted felt they couldn't speak out, Harris's fame only grew, as he presented shows watched by millions from the 1960s to the 2000s. He knew I wasn't going to say anything back because don't upset the talent… That would have lost me my job and my career."
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He was letting me know that he was in full control, and he could do whatever he wanted. Every time she walked up to put powder on his face in the make-up room, she says he groped her: "When I looked into his face, he just looked back at me with such a lascivious look, that made me feel really uncomfortable because I all of a sudden saw who he was. At the time he was also promoting an anti-child abuse campaign. Suzi Dent, an Australian make-up artist, says he sexually assaulted her when she worked on a programme he appeared on in 1985. My period was due, and my breasts were very tender, and I had no doubt what he’d done was deliberate." And it was humiliating and degrading and awful and your blood turns to concrete. She says he assaulted her three times in plain sight in the space of 35 minutes: "He was paying me attention, he was saying how great I had been, and he hugged me, and that’s when it happened. And you find yourself thinking, ‘Oh yeah, you know, that’s what Harris is like.’" She carried his bag, and says: "For the first couple of hours, he was lovely. In 1978 alleged victim Karen Gardner was 16 when she went along to the filming of the show Star Games in Cambridge, at which Harris was appearing. He was a big asset for the BBC… Because the audience very quickly trusted him, they knew that if they committed an hour to watch Rolf Harris, they were going to be entertained."īut behind the scenes, Harris's behaviour painted an entirely different picture. Former BBC chairman Lord Grade says: "In those days, you didn't get a primetime Saturday night slot on BBC One unless you were able to draw millions and millions of people, and Rolf was an absolute sensation. The first episode details just how famous Harris was from the 1960s onwards - a Saturday night household name. This is an Optomen Television production for ITVX. Do his accusers feel that they’ve got justice?
#Hidden in plain sight documentary series
With Harris now back at home, and new allegations of abuse surfacing in Australia, the series asks important questions about how the criminal justice system deals with historical cases of sexual abuse.
With exclusive new testimony, the films tell the story of Harris’ decades-long grooming of his daughter Bindi’s childhood friend from the age of 13, and reveal the unseen evidence that led to his downfall. Over a decade on from his arrest, Harris’ accusers including those who have waived their right to anonymity to tell the story of how they say his assaults impacted on them, and the pressures that finally forced them to come forward to testify against him in court. Harris was loved and trusted as 'the nation’s favourite uncle' but behind closed doors he had been betraying his family and the British public that had grown up with him by sexually assaulting children and young women for years.
#Hidden in plain sight documentary archive
This two-part documentary tells the extraordinary truth behind the rise and fall of former national treasure Rolf Harris using rare archive and exclusive testimony from those closest to the trial.
The information contained herein is embargoed from all Press, online, social media, non-commercial publication or syndication - in the public domain - until Tuesday 9 May, 2023
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