I’ve already written a post with a round-up of Strictly Head Judge Len Goodman’s interview with the newspaper that’s serialising his autobiography. Following on from the interview, the Daily Mail has published 2 extracts from the book.
Read on if you want to see what the highlights are without having to read the full articles on the Mail website. I can’t promise that the extracts are a riot though – personally I’d prefer to hear about Strictly that Len’s life before he was famous…
- Len was born in 1944 and grew up in Bethnal Green
- He found his mum a new husband after his dad had walked out by falling over and bashing his leg (he was the first aid man)
- He left school at 15 to become a welder, working on the docks
- He initially took up balroom dancing as part of his rehibilitation programme after breaking his foot playing football
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- Len married his dance partner, Cherry, who he had started dancing with when she was just 15
- The wedding very nearly didn’t happen after he didn’t arrange the banns
- After having a heart attack 2 weeks before the wedding, his Dad had a relapse on the wedding night – fortunately he survived, but Cherry wasn’t impressed by the start to their wedding
- His wife ran off with a Frenchman called Michel who she had met when she and Len were on holiday in Monte Carlo
- Cherry managed to introduce her mum to her new man before telling Len that their marriage was over
- After he got divorced, he met Lesley, and they ended up having a son together before they separated
- He has a new partner now – Sue, a dance teacher from Essex
- He and Brendon argued – now there’s a surprise. Apparently Brendon was angry when Len voted out Gethin Jones instead of Matt Di Angelo
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Reminder – you can buy your own copy of Len’s autobiography from Amazon HERE
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