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Dead?

Someone told me he died today.--70.156.0.160 (talk) 00:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, Google search reveals that he has prostate cancer, but is feeling well. Macdonald-ross (talk) 20:17, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nope he’s alive 100% I can guarantee intact I saw him opening his curtains the other day Wewillwee (talk) 21:32, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence is tragic

"He has a son, James William Goodman (born January 26, 1981) who is currently teaching dance at the Goodman Dance Centre, from his marriage to his second wife Lesley, who also taught dancing at his dance schools in Dartford and Gravesend."

Suggest an English Major rewrites... Msjayhawk (talk) 16:48, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are so right! It is a tortured sentence! How's this:

"He later married Lesley, who also taught dancing at his dance schools in Dartford and Gravesend. This union produced a son, James William Goodman (born January 26, 1981), who is currently teaching dance at the Goodman Dance Centre." Babowman (talk) 19:03, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clarify please

The article states that Goodman injured himself in football. Is that what the U.S. calls 'soccer'? Some readers might be confused. Babowman (talk) 18:57, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Linked to Association football for clarity - yes, that is 'soccer', but in the UK we call it football, not soccer, and as the page is written in UK English it shouldn't be changed to soccer. Hopefully the link will answer any queries if there are any. 86.133.214.66 (talk) 12:15, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is Len Jewish?

Goodman can be a Jewish name. Just wondered. Fletcherbrian (talk) 18:48, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Probably. Big deal 78.149.214.235 (talk) 17:10, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Christian I saw him at the church I believe Wewillwee (talk) 21:33, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Let me clarify Len is 100% alive and semi well

^^^^^ Wewillwee (talk) 21:34, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not now, he died this morning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.33.196.5 (talk) 08:31, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Place of birth

The FreeBMD record is this one, with mother's surname Eldridge, in Bromley. MyLondonNews here also says he was born in Bromley, Kent. 205.239.40.3 (talk) 13:23, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On page 23 of his book Better Late Than Never, here, he says he was born in Kent. On page 24 he says he was born in Farnborough, presumably Farnborough, London? 205.239.40.3 (talk) 13:33, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So I have now corrected the article accordingly, adding a BBC source. 205.239.40.3 (talk) 14:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Goodman was Jewish"

A source has been added saying that Goodman "was Jewish". While it's certain from his sourced genealogy that he was descended from Polish Jews (very common East End heritage), he also said he always thought he was and still felt like, in his words, an Anglo Saxon. So we have the question Who is a Jew?. Is it a man descended from Jews, who didn't know that until he was 70, and wasn't exactly interested either way about it? Unknown Temptation (talk) 12:26, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wholly agree. I have removed the claim and the single promo source supporting it. I really don't think it's important and was not significant to Goodman himself. Tacking it onto the quote from him about being "not Anglo Saxon" is really a bit of WP:SYNTH we can do without. Most (all?) obits don't even mention it? 86.187.171.169 (talk) 16:53, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're right I haven't seen this in any reliable obituary. The Jewish News appears on Google to have written an obituary that referred to Goodman as Jewish, but you click and it turns into a 404 error. The long and short of it is we have no written or verbal confirmation by Goodman that he was any religion/ethnicity; the quotes we do have show he wasn't really bothered about group identity at all. Anecdotally, as Jews are often very aware of their genealogy, it's extremely unlikely that one would think of himself as an unmixed Anglo Saxon, and then be surprised to find an ancestor from Poland - the ancestral home of most British Jews. Come to think of it, I might have added my own misinformation here, as there's no sources mentioning the religion or ethnicity of this distant Polish ancestor. Unknown Temptation ([[User talk:Unknown

Temptation|talk]]) 18:25, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

the Pope is a Catholic. Goodman was a Jew. So what? 2A00:23C8:9F93:FB01:1856:A60B:32AE:DABC (talk) 03:26, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Strictly launch show tribute

The launch show of 2023 had a section which paid tribute to Len Goodman who had been a judge on Strictly previously. Percy2345 (talk) 02:27, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not state that Len Goodman had "Bone cancer"

I understand that some journalists/citations refer to Goodman's disease as "Bone cancer" but this is wildly inaccurate. He had prostate cancer which metastasized to his bones. Metastatic disease does not "become" "transform" or "escalate into" bone cancer, it remains the primary cancer (which in Goodman's case is prostatic carcinoma).

Bone cancer generally refers to primary Osteosarcoma (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Osteosarcoma) which Goodman did not die of nor ever had. While some may be confused that he had bone "tumors" (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Bone_tumor) his bone lesions were secondary bone tumors caused by metastatic disease. 136.50.4.242 (talk) 02:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Come Dancing

Len was a judge on ‘Come Dancing’ too - the only to transfer from that programme to the ‘strictly’ format. Seems strange this is not mentioned. 81.156.4.55 (talk) 21:44, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]