The iconic former Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman died on Saturday aged 78, and former Strictly professionals AJ Pritchard and Flavia Cacace praised the late ballroom sensation.
AJ told Vanessa Feltz on TalkTV: “It is very sad but I have to think of it as being a celebration. Every time I think of Len, the memories, the videos, Len’s Lens - I can’t even say the number seven in a normal way any more - it has to be a sev-EN!
“To think that one person could have changed the perception of ballroom and Latin dancing from the sequins, the fake tan… at the beginning it was like, ‘Yeah yeah I’m a dancer’, kind of proud of it internally but maybe not externally and then Len and Strictly Come Dancing - he has that magic recipe that made ballroom and Latin what it is today and to be proud to say I am a ballroom Latin dancer.
