One of paedophile Jimmy Savile's producers has told Sky News he is sorry he did not raise the alarm after having suspicions about the star.
Colin Semper, who is now a canon, worked with the presenter on Speakeasy, a BBC radio discussion programme for teenagers which ran in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Canon Semper was one of three people who were named by Dame Janet Smith in a new report where she said they should have spoken up.
The report into sexual abuse by Savile says there was "no evidence" any senior member of the BBC was aware of his behaviour.
But Dame Janet said her report made for "sorry reading" as she criticised a culture of "virtually untouchable" celebrities, and staff fearful of speaking out.
And a lawyer for 168 of Savile's victims said it was "implausible" that senior management were in the dark and dismissed the report as an "expensive whitewash".
Canon Semper said he did "have suspicions (about Savile) because he talked quite needlessly sometimes about young women".
He said his programme "was besieged by young ladies".
But he pointed out he "never saw him walk down the road with a girl from the crowd of girls who were around but it may well have happened".
"I didn't actually see it. It probably did happen. So what was said (by Dame Janet) is probably the absolute truth."
Canon Semper admitted that even though he had suspicions "he didn't tell anybody of authority" and "perhaps he should have done".
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He said Savile was his "major presenter" and he had to do an hour-long show with him every week
Canon Semper said he had "regrets" because he was "so obsessed" with his programme, and his message to Savile's victims was that he was "very sorry".
He said: "I want to say I am sorry that if I had any responsibility for what has happened over subsequent time then I am just really sorry."
He said he mentioned his suspicions to the presenter himself by saying: 'I'm not interested in your women. I'm not interested in what women you want to get. I'm interested in that we have a good programme and you present it well."
He added: "Every week I said to him, we are not doing girls. I put my foot down."
Earlier, Dame Janet praised the honesty of the evidence Canon Semper gave her, and said the failure to stop Savile's behaviour had clearly weighed heavily on his mind.
But she said Canon Semper should have reported his suspicions about Savile to his superiors at the BBC.
The report states: "I accept that Canon Semper did not 'know' that Savile had sex with under-age girls in the sense of ever seeing it happen, but he clearly did 'think' that Savile had casual sex with a lot of girls, some of whom might have been under age.
"Canon Semper did not make any report to his managers. I have concluded that he ought to have discussed his concerns with a manager."
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