Overview
- Tuesday's preview clip for ABC TV's Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator features former promoter Chris 'Bear' Brosnan saying Harris once reacted to two schoolgirls by asking, “couldn't you just f*** the pair of them?”
- Brosnan says the remark felt like a test to see if he would accept or enable Harris's behaviour, and the clip is presented as new first‑hand testimony in the documentary.
- The film frames that testimony as part of a pattern in which Harris used fame and nostalgia to shield abuse that took place between 1968 and 1986.
- Harris was convicted at trial in 2014, served about three years of a near six‑year sentence before release on licence, had one conviction quashed on appeal in 2017 while 11 convictions stood, and he died in May 2023.
- The documentary’s publicity has renewed media attention on Harris’s Thames‑side house in Maidenhead, which was linked in court evidence to some assaults and failed to reach its reserve when put up for auction earlier this year.