Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman’s death earlier this week triggered an outpouring of tributes to one of the nicest men in showbiz.
But things could have turned out very differently for Len, who died three days before his 79th birthday.
Here in exclusive extracts from his autobiography, Better Late Than Never: From Barrow Boy to Ballroom, he recalls the moment in his late teens that set the apprentice welder on the road to dancing stardom.
