article_snippet: The controversy took a further twist this weekend when victims of Jimmy Savile denounced comparisons of the support shown to Show presenter Jeremy Clarkson to the widespread protection offered to the presenter as 'upsetting' and 'totally offensive'.
article_snippet: The Mail On Sunday revealed A senior figure at the BBC compared the support for Show presenter Jeremy Clarkson to the way sex offender Jimmy Savile was defended.
article_snippet: Liz Dux, a lawyer from Slater and Gordon, which is representing 169 of Jimmy Savile's alleged victims, said such comparisons upset victims.
article_snippet: Liz Dux, a lawyer from Slater and Gordon, which is representing 169 of Savile's alleged victims said: 'Many of Jimmy Savile's victims find a direct parallel between these issues to be upsetting and highly inappropriate. '
article_snippet: One victim said that while both have celebrity status, to suggest other similarities is totally offensive. '
article_snippet: Nevertheless, both have celebrity status, to suggest other similarities is totally offensive want the lessons from Jimmy Savile learned, whereby fame and celebrity must never be an excuse to overlook wrongdoing.'