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Better Late Than Never - From Barrow Boy to Ballroom (Paperback)
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Better Late Than Never - From Barrow Boy to Ballroom (Paperback)
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Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man
born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late
in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come
Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame, his
experiences on Strictly Come Dancing, and also on the no.1 US show
Dancing with the Stars and his encounters with the likes of Heather
Mills-McCartney and John Sergeant. But the real story is in his
East End roots. And Len's early life couldn't be more East End. The
son of a Bethnal Green costermonger he spent his formative years
running the fruit and veg barrow and being bathed at night in the
same water Nan used to cook the beetroot. There are echoes of Billy
Elliot too. Though Len was a welder in the London Docks, he dreamt
of being a professional footballer, and came close to making the
grade had he not broken his foot on Hackney Marshes. The doctor
recommended ballroom dancing as a light aid to his recovery. And
Len, it turned out, was a natural. At first his family and work
mates mocked, but soon he had made the final of a national
competition and the welders descended en masse to the Albert Hall
to cheer him on. With his dance partner, and then wife Cheryl, Len
won the British Championships in his late twenties and ballroom
dancing became his life. Funny and heart-warming, Len Goodman's
autobiography has all the honest East End charm of Tommy Steele,
Mike Read or Roberta Taylor.
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