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She tweeted: "Oh this is such an awful shock and so sad. Len was an absolute legend & the definition of a proper gent.'He was a beautiful man with a huge sense of humour who had such a mischievous turn of phrase.Len Goodman with his fellow Strictly judges in 2014.Mr Goodman was born in 1944 in London, and began his career as a welder in Woolwich, before starting dancing in his late teens.Mr Goodman then ran a dancing school, the Goodman Dance Academy in Kent.
In 2009, he wrote his autobiography 'Better Late Than Never: From Barrow Boy to Ballroom', as well as two other books, 'Len's Lost London' and 'Dancing Around Britain'. He said he enjoyed his time on Dancing With The Stars, but added that he remembered some cultural confusion."Some of the things I came out with did confuse them [The Americans] a bit," he said. "I remember saying: 'Give it some welly', and they said 'Willy? What's a willy?'
"But someone said to me, early doors: 'Be yourself, and be honest' and I've stuck to that, as much as you can.'"
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