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No reason his name couldn’t be there. To be 100 % clear, I’m comparing their celebrity status and in no way whatsoever suggesting that they are paedophiles.

Yep. The equivalents of Chris Evans, Michael Macintyre or Ant n Dec, in entertainment terms.

Can’t say I ever liked Savile or his tv shows. Always thought he was a strange, scary man. That was years before I even knew what a rapist or paedophile was. But yeah, Rolf Harris was good fun when I was a kid. I had his stilophone thing, paint by numbers sets and annuals. Of course now I...

Nonce likely comes from the Victorian phrase for nonsense poems full of strange words and creatures; Nonce poems or Nonce words. The Jabberwocky would be an example of a Nonce poem. Edit; could also derive from the word Nance, to be gay or effeminate. Or indeed from Lincolnshire dialect...

On Google there is a claim it means not on normal courtyard exercise. I suspect this is similar to the made up Port Out Starboard Home retrospective acronym for posh. A “backronym”, if you will.

The only thing that is remotely sad about his passing is that it wasn’t the result of a stair-well nonce bashing.

Good riddance to a dirty nonce. May he rot and burn in Hell for eternity.