By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter, at Southwark Crown Court
A former tour manager of Rolf Harris has told a court he had to "extract" the entertainer from female fans when they threw themselves at him.
Ken Jeacle, giving evidence by video link from Australia, described how women would "put their arms" around Harris, who is on trial accused of a series of indecent assaults.
"I would have to gently intervene," he said.
"I would have to be careful (because) it would destroy the admiration of the admirer if I took the wrong attitude.
"I would say, 'Don't forget we're on our way to that radio interview' and keep him moving to extract him from situations."
Mr Jeacle said that in the years he toured Australia with Harris, he had never seen him act inappropriately and described him as a "gentleman".
Under cross-examination from Sasha Wass QC, he was asked what he knew of Harris' private life and his extramarital affairs.
He replied: "If he had extramarital affairs that's none of my business.
"I can't speak and will not speak of that because it is none of my concern."
Broadcaster and TV presenter Sue Cook also testified for the defence at Southwark Crown Court, describing how she had been watching a report of the proceedings on Sky News.
Ms Cook, a former presenter of Crimewatch and Children in Need, said she took to Twitter after seeing footage of Harris in a 1978 episode of Star Games filmed in Cambridge.
Harris is alleged to have groped a waitress in the city between 1975 and 1979 at an It's A Knockout-style event.
Last week he insisted he had never been to Cambridge until four years ago for an exhibition of his paintings.
Ms Cook said she had taken part in two or possibly three episodes of Star Games but she did not appear in the footage of the Harris episode shown in court earlier this week.
Ms Cook said: "I said to my husband, 'Gosh, that's unfair. I was in that show and I wouldn't have remembered it all. I wouldn't have known it was Cambridge either'.
"Where it was was irrelevant. We were part of a team game and bussed to a recreation ground where the location was. I don't remember where any of them were."
Ms Cook said she could not remember being on the same episode as Harris, adding it was 36 years ago and she had attended hundreds of similar events.
She told the court she was often not able to remember them all, saying she had forgotten presenting a gala performance at the Royal Opera House and interviewing stars until recently when a relative gave her a DVD of the programme.
Harris, dressed in a suit and tie, listened to proceedings from the dock with his friends and family in the public gallery.
The 84-year-old entertainer, of Bray, Berkshire, denies 12 counts of indecent assault on four women aged between seven or eight years old and 19 years old between 1968 and 1986.
The trial continues.
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