Overview
- A new two-part documentary, Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator, aired this week and has renewed public attention on the entertainer’s history of abuse.
- Coleen Nolan told Loose Women that Harris repeatedly tried to kiss her on the lips when she was ten and said she found the behaviour strange at the time.
- Kerry Katona wrote in a New! magazine column that she has not seen the documentary but recalled working with Harris on SMTV and remembered him as “a very grumpy old man.”
- Katona used the same column to give personal updates, saying she will take August off to spend time with her fiancé and children, expressing sympathy for Caroline Flack’s family, and reflecting on her past drug use.
- Coverage and the documentary place survivors’ testimony and archive footage side by side to show how Harris’s fame and institutional tolerance allowed abuse to go undetected and to prompt renewed discussion about safeguarding of children in show business.