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• Len Goodman is a professional dance judge. He appears on the British television show Strictly Come Dancing and the American dance competition show Dancing with the Stars.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: April 1944Mail Online: Len Goodman reveals... (August 25, 2008)
  2. Birthplace: Bethnal Green, London
  3. Shows: Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing with the Stars
  4. Girlfriend: Sue Barrett
  5. Children: One son

• Early Life

  Goodman began his dance career after sustaining a foot injury playing football. He used dance as a rehabilitative measure and quickly fell in love with it. A few years later, Goodman opened up his first dance school with the belief that dance lessons should be fun.The Guardian: Dancing was what the doctor ordered for Len Goodman (December 5, 2006)

• Quotes

  "The standing spin looked like you were kick-starting a motorbike."--to Rodger Black on Strictly Come DancingMirror: Len's a perfect 10 (November 24, 2007)

  "The quickstep is like a souffle - light and fluffy. This was like a spotted dick."--to Diarmuid Gavin on Strictly Come DancingMirror: Len's a perfect 10 (November 24, 2007)

  "It was like a bowl of minestrone soup - lots of funny things floating around that I didn't recognize."--to Jill Halfpenny on Strictly Come DancingMirror: Len's a perfect 10 (November 24, 2007)

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