Long and ballroom dancer-time Dancing With The Stars, Judge Len

Dancing With The Stars’ Judge Len Goodman dies at 78 Enlarge this image under the legend Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty ImagesLen Goodman, the etapos; beloved ball-champion and long-time judge on Dancing with the Stars and her British counterpart Strictly Come Dancing, is deceased d’ 78-year-old Goodman died in peacetime on Saturday, surrounded by a family of Jackie Kent’s Lodge in England.

It felt like a member of everyone’s family, but the director of the BBC-General Tim Davie said in a statement.

He spent several years judging British and American shows simultaneously, criss-crossing the Atlantic weekly, l&quot, Associated Press reports.Goodman also won the Carl Alan Award (the “Oscars of the dance world;) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to dance and wrote several books, including his 2009 biography Better Late Than Never: From Bar Boy to Ballroom.Goodman’s retirement from DWTS in November at the end of the 31st season.

I haven’t been asleep or started to dribble on the show again, so j’ thought that we better d’ go before I start doing it!; Goodman added that; part of his retirement would include the digging of old DVDs to relive favorite memories of past seasons; and he had a wonderful maid ride and can’t thank all those who have helped us; the long way to Gooda and the next few years, he said Gooda and his father had been ill; and his father had been ill in London.

He was surprised and delighted at what had happened to him at a time when the dancers were retiring or had been retired for a long time.

Here are some of his most memorable quotes, compiled by the Apos; AP and BBC: rent a couple of dancing salsa-as a quot; like two grilled sausages on a barbeque, “tell a dancer that they’ve been whipped; float on the ground like butter on a pancake,” compare a competitor to a “have been hit by lightning” and another to float on the ground like a butter on a pancake, “compare a competitor to a conquer; and your stork.

DWTS Judge Carrie Ann Inaba shared a montage of Instagram photos and videos of the two, which called: quot; A Dancer.

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Today, however, the news has changed everything again.

And that Len Goody Goodman is what I always called him, and that he always called him, and that it is a ten of Len & amp; seveeeeern & that he will live with me forever, & quot; Strictly Come Dance Judge Craig Revel Horwood tweeted.Kristina Rihanoff, a former professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, tweeted that Goodman will always be his favourite judge, the caller, the caller, the caller, the caller, the caller, the caller, the caller, the caller, the Ramper Hon.Kristina Rihanoff, a former dancer, and trusted us with Wellness; and integrity.