Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences on Thursday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations.
Hall, 83, who was best known for hosting the family TV show "It's a Knockout" and was still working for the BBC as a football radio commentator until recently, admitted 14 counts of indecent offences against young girls over two decades, with the youngest victim aged just nine.
"Whether in public or private, Hall would first approach under friendly pretences and then bide his time until the victim was isolated," said Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor in northwest England.
"He can only be described as an opportunistic predator."
Hall's admission follows a scandal centred on the late Jimmy Savile, an eccentric former BBC TV presenter who police said in January had committed sex crimes on an unprecedented scale and was suspected of more than 200 offences.
The revelations about Savile, one of the BBC's biggest stars during the 1970s and 1980s and who was knighted by the Queen, rocked the public broadcaster and heralded subsequent allegations against a procession of ageing, high-profile names.
On Wednesday, William Roache, the world's longest serving TV soap actor according to Guinness World Records, was charged with two counts of rape against a 15-year-old girl.
Roache, 81, who has played womaniser Ken Barlow in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" since its first episode in 1960, is accused of attacking the girl in 1967.
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