When it comes to dancing royalty on the small screen, one wouldn’t be wrong for jumping immediately to Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars vet Len Goodman, who spent much of the past 20 years bringing his 55 years of professional expertise to audiences around the globe. Sadly, the news spread early Monday morning that Goodman died over the weekend at the age of 78.
Having suffered from bone cancer, Len Goodman passed away on Saturday, April 22, while in hospice in the UK — specifically, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent — and was said to be surrounded by family. His manager Jackie Gill shared the following statement with the BBC on Monday morning:
