PAEDOPHILE celebrity Jimmy Savile boasted of being given "six young girls in a tent" as payment to go to a charity event, in a 1970s autobiography.

Savile gleefully tells of spending the night in a tent on a Yorkshire hillside with six young girls "wearing matching mini-skirts and boots" as payment for attending a mayoral ball.

The sick revelation is one of many contained in his out-of-print memoir As It Happens, published in 1974 by Barrie and Jenkins and unearthed by The Sunday Mirror in the wake of the child abuse scandal.

“Let me tell you about the fun part of the charity deal. I got a call one day from the chairman of a local council. He’d got a new idea for the ­annual mayoral ball and wanted to turn it into a big youth dance, and would I come?" Savile wrote.

“For years the affair had been just a bit stuffy and only attracted a couple of hundred locals. He wanted 2,000 and did I have any ideas?

“Sure I had. Good ideas are my strong point. I will come if you will arrange for me to sleep in a tent up the local hillside with another tent alongside with six girls to sleep there as my bodyguards!

“My demands really put the dance on the map and 2,000 tickets went like hot cakes. My ultimatum of ‘no tents, no girls, no me’ meant the council had to go through with it.”

According to The Sunday Mirror, Savile describes how hundreds responded to a notice placed in the local paper calling for young girls to spend a night on the moors with him.

“The council had to decide which six, so they called a special meeting," Savile, who died last year at the age of 84, wrote.

“Some of the members only then ­realised what they were doing. ‘We can’t have a council meeting to decide which six of our girls sleep with this man,’ said several, more bewildered than outraged. So half the council left and half stayed.

“Six girls were selected and all of them were given matching mini skirts and white boots, as befitting a ceremonial bodyguard. They looked good enough to eat. I duly arrived in the town and it was the start of an incredible evening.

"As the chosen girls were getting ready for the dance the father of one of them realised what was happening, rushed to the event and dragged her home."

In the book, Savile claimed he invited a "millionaire friend" to join him in the tent.

“When he saw the crumpet his eyes shot out a mile and his total conversation for the evening was an incredulous ‘Are we kipping with them?’ Technically no, as we were in the tent next door. Or were supposed to be,” he wrote.

“The chairman, his lady, and minder, bade us good night and left. It was all too much and we all fell about and over each other, making enough noise to wake the dead. Needless to say the girls’ tent fell over and we all had to finish up ­together.”

According to The Sunday Mirror report, Savile said that a year later he received a request for help from another council, which subsequently arranged for him to stay in a treehouse with a another group of young girls.

However, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease prevented the sordid plan from going ahead.

In another incident, Savile was recognised on a beach one day by an "eagle-eyed sirene (his nickname for girls)"

He claimed she ­invited him inside her family’s ­caravan, where she stripped while his two minders distracted her parents.

“I have sunk into a chair, wringing wet with the heat and temptation. A rustling and snapping from the dark end tells me that the swimsuit is off," he wrote.

“At that precise moment, and I swear before God and witnesses it was at that very precise moment, the outside door handle gave a click, turn and pull. Mum and dad had come across to join us.”

Savile claimed the girl was putting her clothes back on when her parents suddenly walked in.

“The situation had been saved by daughter sliding like an eel into a slip of a dress, minus undies, and pretending to make tea.

“Eventually it was business as usual but friends will tell you that since that day I never, ever operate outside my own four walls.”

The British government has indicated a full-scale inquiry may be held into the way the BBC handled persistent allegations of pedophilia during Savile's employment.

It is feared he may have preyed on up to 900 girls and boys, at least one of them an Australian.