Rolf charged

"Making indecent images of children"

Did he paint them...?

Seriously though, I am pretty shocked. Not you too, Rolf! ?

He's painted the QUEEN.

I was also surprised at this, he has never really come across as a dirty/creepy old man!

My sister will be heartbroken. She loved Animal Hospital!

I don't believe he would didgeridoo such a thing!

Awful I know sorry couldn't resist!

Sad times. ?

Am I the only one who was always a bit scared of him? All that heavy breathing and panting ?

? I've got '2 little boy with 2 little toys' stuck in my head now.

Just seems so random? I think making images counts as downloading or printing and not necessarily going and actually taking pics. I dunno. He was 50ish in 80's so not really acceptable. Not saying that it would be if he was younger, assault is assault, but some of the people who were early 20's taking advantage of forward 14/15 yr olds is slightly different and at first I wondered if he was in that category iykwim.

I wonder what more will come out when the trial happens

I had so many happy telly memories of him, all ruined now. Jimmy Savile always seemed a bit creepy but Rolf was just... ROLF. My mum is heartbroken.

I know it's wrong and illogical but I'm finding it much harder to digest the fact that the charge of making indecent images refers to LAST YEAR and not the 1980s like the other charges. I don't mean to suggest the historical charges are any less serious, but somehow the relative recentness (is that a word?) of this feels more.. something.

Me too, my mum and I used to always watch this. Such a shock.

Somehow to me this one seems so much more of a shock than the others that have come to light in this whole Jimmy Savile scandal. To me he always seemed like a genuinely nice man.....

You have answered far superior than I could have done but it surprises me that people say ooo well he didn't seem the sort...

Well no in reality people who commit crimes don't like look evil criminal materminds, or sit in a huge chair, stroking a cat, laughing mwuah ha ha ha ha. They look like your dad, your mum, your brother, your sister, your son, your daughter.... If they 'looked' a certain way that they would be far less successful and people would be able to avoid them and not be harmed.

That's why it is so silly that people teach their children to avoid strangers or bad people - they need to be given far more specifics than that.

Rolf always scared me and strangely enough that was why I was surprised at him being picked up - because to me he did look like the sort of scary person I thought it was less likely he would have done anything - but I have to remember it could eb anyone☹️

I'm the same. Absolutely loved his show. I went to my Mums today and she broke the news to me... So shocking.

I wonder how this is all going to turn out. I initially thought 'they better have some convincing evidence to charge/arrest so-and-so, this stuff wrecks peoples lives, if they've done it they deserve it, but if not... wow'.

But we've moved on a lot, haven't we? Surely there's a very high chance those arrested/charged are guilty, regardless of whether they get convicted?

I was surprised by Rolf! People at work were surprised as he seemed relatively normal but clearly that doesn't mean anything.

^^^ Absolutely this ^^^