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Len Goodman

March 2024

  • choreographer Arlene Phillips

    The G2 interview
    Arlene Phillips at 80: on Strictly, scandal, survival – and still being a sizzling hot choreographer

    She outraged Mary Whitehouse, worked with Tina Turner, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and is up for an Olivier for choreographing a smash hit production of Guys & Dolls. Will she ever slow down? Not likely ...

24 April 2023

  • Len Goodman

    Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman dies aged 78

  • ‘Pickle my walnuts!’ … Len Goodman in California in 2007.

    ‘It’s a 10 for Len’: farewell to gloriously gobby Goodman, the Strictly ballroom sensation

  • Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has died aged 78

    1:35

    'Everyone can dance': a look back at Len Goodman's life and career – video

  • ‘Well pickle my walnuts’ … Len Goodman on Dancing With the Stars.

    ‘Like butter on a crumpet’ – Len Goodman: a life in pictures

September 2019

  • Anton du Beke and Ann Widdecombe

    Shortcuts
    From rampant crabs to lost knickers: Strictly Come Dancing’s 10 most awkward moments

    After Mike Bushell and Chris Ramsey delivered look-away-now performances on Saturday, we rank the best worst dances in the show’s history

August 2017

  • Programme Name: Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Partners in Rhyme is BBC One’s brand new family Saturday night game show hosted by Len Goodman which sees contestants and celebrities team up to play a series of comedy rounds, all based on rhyming clues. Len Goodman - (C) Panda Televsion - Photographer: Graeme Hunter

    Len Goodman’s Partners in Rhyme: a terrible toddler's drawing of a show

    Nobody involved in this fermented kaleidoscope of dung has thought it through – but at least Len’s slang-and-dance mashup makes a change from the endless competitions clogging our screens

January 2017

  • Composite image showing (clockwise from top left) Ore Oduba, Gary Lineker, Jenna Coleman and Mary Berry

    The National Television Awards: who will win – and who actually should

    The people’s Baftas are here! But will Bake Off or I’m A Celebrity emerge victorious? And will Gary Lineker in his pants knock Ant & Dec off their perch?

December 2016

  • Len Goodman

    A 10 from Len: Strictly special to drive biggest TV power spike this Christmas

  • Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton in the Strictly Come Dancing final.

    Strictly Come Dancing ends most popular ever series on ratings high

  • Claudia Winkleman, Len Goodman and Tess Daly

    Len Goodman praised as 'the king of Strictly' after final show

  • Len Goodman.

    Strictly Come Dancing: farewell Len Goodman, the king of pickled walnuts

July 2016

  • The BBC has announced that Len Goodman is to step down as Strictly Come Dancing head judge after the next series.

    Len Goodman to step down as Strictly Come Dancing judge after next series

    Star, who has been with the dance contest since its launch 12 years ago, will continue presenting his Radio 2 show

December 2014

  • Len Goodman was cleared of swearing under his breath during an appraisal of Simon Webbe.

    Media Monkey
    BBC blue after spate of on-air swearing

    John Cleese latest to turn air blue on The One Show after corporation sidesteps Len Goodman’s ‘did-he, didn’t he?’ muttering during Strictly

November 2014

  • The Strictly Come Dancing Judges.

    The Lauren Laverne column
    Lauren Laverne: ‘When it comes to expletives, context is everything’

    Lauren Laverne
  • Judges Craig Revel Horwood, Darcey Bussell, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli hold up their scores on the Strictly Come Dancing live show.

    Len Goodman drops F-bomb on Strictly Come Dancing live show

December 2012

  • Strictly's judges, from left, Craig Revel Horwood, Darcey Bussell, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli

    How Strictly Come Dancing waltzed its way to the top of the Saturday night ratings

    The BBC's ballroom show has a million more viewers than X Factor and has turned Darcey Bussell into a primetime TV superstar

April 2012

  • Len Goodman

    This much I know
    This much I know: Len Goodman

    The Strictly Come Dancing judge on cycling, marriage and surviving prostate cancer

March 2012

  • Titanic with Len Goodman; Twenty Twelve – review

  • Catherine Bennett

    Can we just please sink the Titanic once and for all?

    Catherine Bennett
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