TV weatherman Fred Talbot used his "boundless energy" and "extrovert personality" to gain the trust of five schoolboys he sexually abused, a court has heard.
The 65-year-old is accused of indecently assaulting his victims between the late 1960s and the early 1980s during his former career as a teacher.
Four of the alleged victims were pupils at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, where Talbot was a biology teacher.
Prosecutor Neil Usher, opening the case at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, said: "The very qualities that made Fred Talbot so successful as a TV celebrity - his boundless energy, his infectious enthusiasm, his extrovert personality - helped him gain, we say, the trust of these boys.
"Trust, which the prosecution say, Mr Talbot repeatedly abused when, away from their parents on school trips organised by Mr Talbot, he sexually assaulted each of them.
"And we say that like many child abusers who are in a position of authority who are confident and who are plainly well liked by their peers, he gambled that each of the boys he took advantage of would find it impossible to speak out and tell other adults what he had done, either through fear of not being believed or because it would inevitably involve speaking to parents or other teachers about embarrassing matters of a sexual, indeed homosexual, nature."
Mr Usher said the allegations centred around the time Talbot was a trainee teacher in Newcastle in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and secondly from the mid-70s to 1984 when he taught in Altrincham.
The police investigation into Talbot in 2012 came after publicity into an unrelated sex abuse investigation at St Ambrose College, also in Altrincham.
The prosecutor said he offered "no comment" when he was spoken to by police and formally interviewed under caution.
Talbot, known as "Fred the Weatherman", appeared on local and national TV from the mid-1980s.
Talbot, of Bowdon, Greater Manchester, denies 10 counts of indecent assault.
The trial continues.
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