Len Goodman

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- He was born in Bromley, Kent, England.

- He is 71-years-old (25 April 1944)

- His father was an electrician.

- He started dancing at the age of 19.

- He is a recipient of the "Carl Alan Award".

- He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2006 and 2007.

- He has been a judge on SCD ever since it began in 2004.

- He was the head judge on DWTS from S1 till S20.

- He hosted many shows on BBC.

- He was married to his dancing partner, Cherry Kingston but they got divorced later.

- He then got in a long term relationship with a woman named Lesley who, he wrote, "decided to give up nursing and live with me and help me run the dance school – which was great, because she was full of ideas. Things rolled along pretty nicely for a year until out of the blue Lesley dropped a bombshell. She was pregnant!"

- He was 36 when she got pregnant.

- Their son James William was born 26 January 1981, but at age 12 moved with his mother back to her native Isle of Wight after they broke up.

- James teaches Latin and ballroom dancing at his father's Goodman Dance Centre since 2012.

- On 30 December 2012, Goodman married his companion of over ten years, Sue Barrett, a 47-year-old dance teacher, in a small ceremony at a London.

- Goodman was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2009, which was treated surgically at a London hospital.

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