Yvette Fielding investigates the BBC after recalling the Rolf Harris-Jimmy Savile incident

Yvette Fielding has questioned the BBC after she claimed disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris sexually abused her during her time as Blue Peter presenter.

The 55-year-old presenter joined the long-running BBC TV show as a teenager in 1987 and left five years later before going on to present a number of BBC programs including The Heaven And Earth Show, The General and City Hospital”.

In an interview with the Sun newspaper, Fielding claimed she was left alone in a television studio with Harris, who took the opportunity to sexually abuse her.

Harris was a family favorite for decades before he was convicted of a series of indecent assaults in June 2014. He died in May last year at the age of 93 from throat cancer and old age.

Speaking about the incident, Fielding told the Sun: “It was very confusing and shocking – just bizarre to imagine Rolf Harris squeezing and patting my bottom and me standing there thinking ‘I don’t know what to do’.”

“Other people in the industry must have known what he was like and they left me alone in the studio with him.

“That should not have happened. I must have been 18 or 19.

“I think a lot of them knew.”

Fielding also recalled an incident involving Jimmy Savile, now considered one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders but who managed to hide his crimes until after his death.

Savile died in October 2011, aged 84, and a year after his death, an ITV documentary revealed the story of his abuse.

“He took my hand and started stroking it. “Look into my eyes,” he said, “and tell me what you think,” she told the Sun.

“He was grotesque.

“I just don’t understand why the BBC allowed him to get away with it for so long.”

Savile worked at the BBC for most of his career, presenting shows such as Top Of The Pops and Jim’ll Fix It.

Fielding also told the Sun that there used to be a culture of cover-ups in the television industry.

The BBC has been contacted for comment.