Disturbing footage shows Jimmy Savile groping teen while filmed for Louis Theroux documentary

Pedophile TV presenter Jimmy Savile groped a teenage girl in front of cameras which were filming him for a Louis Theroux documentary.

Disturbing photos show Savile rubbing himself on the teen and touching her bottom, right before the eyes of her mother in a pizza restaurant in Leeds in 2001.

Footage of the sickening assault will be aired for the first time on BBC, during Theroux's documentary Louis Theroux: Savile.

Theroux had interviewed Savile for his documentary ‘When Louis met Jimmy’ in 2000.

The pair remained on good terms and the new footage was captured when Theroux went to visit the disgraced TV personality.

Theroux recently found the clip while searching through his archives for the documentary.

Savile died in 2011 aged 84, afterwards it emerged he had sexually abused hundreds of women and children, some as young as five.

As many as 72 victims were molested while he worked for the BBC where he worked on Top of the Pops.

In his first documentary on Savile, Theroux questioned him over rumours he was sexually interested in children

At the time Savile responded: “We live in a funny world.”

“And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say 'I don't like children', because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.

Theroux asks: 'Is that basically so the tabloids don't pursue this whole is he or isn't he a pedophile line?'

'”How do they know whether I am not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not… That's my policy and it's worked a dream,” Savile responded during the chilling exchange.

It’s been revealed Theroux tried to report sexual abuse carried out by Savile, however it was not followed up.

He claimed he reported the presenter in 2001 after Savile confessed to sleeping with a 15-year-old girl.

Theroux’s new film focuses on Savile’s victims and the effect the abuse had on their lives.

Writing for the BBC, Theroux spoke of his guilt about not doing more to expose Savile and that he was “hoodwinked” by the pedophile.

“At the time [of the 2000 documentary], I'd done my best to be tough with him. I knew he was weird and, with all his mannerisms, rather irritating - I had no interest in making a soft piece about Jimmy the Charity Fundraiser,” he wrote.

“'The dark rumours - of sexual deviance, of being unemotional, of having a morbid interest in corpses - were one of the reasons I'd taken him on as a subject.”

“I wanted to get the goods on Savile. The trouble was, I had no clear sense of what those goods were.”

Despite this Theroux said he had a “friendly relationship” with Savile.

“The Jimmy Savile I knew then was a contradictory figure. In some respects, he was enigmatic and slightly remote, hiding behind his show-business patter and anecdotes,” he wrote.

“But Savile could also come across, and it's not easy to write this now, as a rather likeable person, good-humoured, knowledgeable, "un-starry" in his manner of life and in his friendships with local Leeds characters. His self-centredness had the effect of making him undemanding company, he was relaxing to be around.”

“One of my reasons for keeping in touch was that I was aware I hadn't quite figured him out. For a while I kept notes for a book I thought I might write one day that would try to unravel who he was.”

Theroux said his new documentary aimed to give a voice to Savile’s victims.

“For years they were invisible - finally they have a voice,” he wrote.

“Savile's victims came from all walks of life, all ages, male and female. But there were certain patterns to his offending. More than anything he had an uncanny instinct for vulnerability.”

“His ability to target the defenceless - teenagers in care, patients recovering in hospital, children from troubled homes - helps explain why he wasn't caught. They were the least likely to resist; they were also least likely to be listened to.”