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Paedophile Jimmy Savile once boasted of his sick “fee” to go to charity events – six young girls to spend the night in a tent with him.

In a chilling account in his own words he said he demanded the “fun bodyguards” as a condition of going to a council’s mayoral ball.

The shamed DJ and TV star also tells of seeing a “sirene” – his name for a girl – on a beach and watching her strip as his minders distracted her parents.

Savile’s ­confessions about his sordid sexual encounters in the late Sixties and early Seventies are in a 1974 book he wrote, As It Happens. It is out of print but was uncovered by the Sunday Mirror in the wake of the child abuse scandal which has shocked Britain.

He brags: “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?

“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.”

He said a notice was placed in a local paper asking for young girls to volunteer to spend a night on the moors with him and boasted that hundreds applied.

Savile, who died last year aged 84, wrote: “The council had to decide which six, so they called a special meeting.

“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.

The Top of the Pops presenter had taken a millionaire friend to the event and to stay in the tent with him.

Savile said: “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.”

The DJ said that after the dance the mayor’s car took him, his friend and the girls to the tents at a place near Leeds.

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.”

Savile said the following year a neighbouring council asked him to help them and arranged for him to stay in a treehouse with six young girls – but he was stopped by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

In another sickening section of the book he wrote of being recognised on a beach by an “eagle-eyed sirene”. He claimed she ­invited him into her family’s ­caravan while his two minders stayed with her parents.

Savile said the girl locked the door and began to undress.

He wrote: “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.

“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 dressed as her parents walked in. He said: “The situation had been saved by daughter sliding like an eel into a slip of a dress, minus undies, and pretending to make tea.”

The close call and a fear of being caught caused Savile to use his own properties to prey on young girls from then on. He said: “Eventually it was business as usual but friends will tell you that since that day I never, ever operate outside my own four walls.”

Mark Williams-Thomas – the child protection expert who exposed Savile’s depravity on the ITV Exposure programme last month – said: “The things Savile admits in his own words are quite shocking. It is clear, in light of what we know now, that he was testing the water with what he says in the book.

“By basically admitting what he was doing, he was seeing what people would pick up and how far he could push the boundaries of what he was saying.”

Former police officer Mr ­Williams-Thomas, who is now preparing a second Savile expose for ITV, added: “All you have to do is insert ages of the girls he talks about as being 13, 14 and 15 and you have a confession to his ­paedophile activities.”