Vanessa Feltz has spoken candidly about a horrifying live-televised incident involving Rolf Harris.
On Tuesday, it was verified that Harris had perished at the age of 93 after a battle with neck cancer.
In May of 2017, the disgraced celebrity was released from prison after serving three years of his five years and nine months sentence for 12 counts of sexual assault, one of which was later overturned.
Feltz, 61, recalled a time in 1996 when she interviewed Harris on The Big Breakfast Show and observed his hand travelling up her dress.
Detailing the awful experience on her TalkTV Drivetime show this week, Feltz shared: ‘I didn’t know what to do because I knew that I couldn’t say, “Get your hand off my leg” or “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” or “Get off me” and I also couldn’t jump off the bed because I was all mic-ed up and it’s a live programme.
‘I didn’t know what to do at all.’
She went on: ‘I tried to put the cushion between, that was no good. I couldn’t move any further away because you can see I would’ve fallen off the edge of the bed… his hand meanwhile was getting closer and closer and closer and closer and closer.’
Feltz added: ‘And then it got to the edge of my pants, my knickers, or whatever. My lingerie, and I knew, that if I didn’t do something immediately, it was going to be a proper full-on assault.’
Revealing how she managed to get herself out of the situation, Feltz noted: ‘I did what you’re never allowed to do as a presenter.’
She then explained that she ‘called for a break herself’ instead of ‘waiting for the director to call one’.
Feltz stated that she did not speak to Harris during the break, and that after the break they continued as if nothing had occurred.
It is not the first time Feltz has spoken out against Harris’ despicable behaviour.
In 2014, she first discussed the incident with the Sunday Express.
