I'm a Celeb's Michael Buerk: 'I wish I'd killed Jimmy Savile I had the chance'

The former BBC Newsreader made the startling confession to his campmates on Wednesday, it has now been revealed.

16:25 28 November 2014

Michael Buerk, the former BBC Newsreader and the current I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here contestant said he wish he killed Jimmy Savile when he ‘had the chance’.

The 69-year-old told campmate Nadia Forde that he had the chance to push Savile overboard a cruise ship but missed it.

“My other regret is standing at the rail of the QE2 with Jimmy Savile who I personally disliked intensely before everyone else did, and my regret is not tipping him over the rail while I had the chance,” he told the Irish model.

Buerk also regrets not being able to talk to his mother about his bigamist father before she passed away when he was a teenager. 

“It was a complicated situation, really,” he continued. “He was a Canadian army officer during the Second World War and he met my mother towards the end of the war… and he married her and I was born but he neglected to point out he was already married and had a wife in Vancouver.”