Len Goodman has admitted that he is worried about the future of Strictly Come Dancing, after the BBC decided to sack Arlene Phillips.

Len is worried that some of the show’s older audience would be offended by the producers attempt to bring some youth and glamour to the show.

he told The Stage: “I hope the BBC is not trying to introduce a younger audience.

“I’d imagine the show attracts an older audience to what you get on The X Factor. I hope it does not affect the fan base.”

Len added: “I am sad Arlene is no longer one of the judges because we got to know each other.

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Len Goodman has revealed that the judges on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing will more than likely take a hefty pay cut.

Len assured viewers that he doesn’t mind working for less money but I bet Arlene Phillips is glad that she got out when she did.

“I think we’ll probably be asked to take a pay cut which I understand, we are in the middle of a recession,” Goodman told the BBC.

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Len Goodman – star judge on Strictly Come Dancing – has revealed to the Daily Mail that he’s recently undergone surgery after a malignant tumour was found in his prostate gland. His cancer was first diagnosed in March this year but Len told the paper that he wanted to go ahead with filming ‘Dancing With The Stars’ in the US before he underwent treatment.

65 year old Len also chose not to tell any of his colleagues or friends about the op, which he had three weeks ago, but he told the paper that he now feels, “right as rain.”

Brave Len said, “I’ve had the surgery now. Everything’s gorgeously good. I’ll be back in September for sure.” Read more & comment »

Dancing With Stars host, Tom Bergeron is being hailed as a life saver after he stopped Len Goodman from choking on a cough sweet backstage on the US TV show.

A show insider told the Globe: “At first we thought he was having a heart attack. Len staggered in agony as he grabbed the back of a chair and had trouble standing as his breathing got worse and worse.

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Strictly Come Dancing’s Len Goodman has revealed that his 91 year old mum is very quick to tell him off if she feels he is being too nasty to the competitors on the BBC One TV show.

The head judge told the Radio Times:

“She once phoned me six times when I was critical of someone and said ‘How could you have been so nasty?’

“If she disagrees with me she tells me off as if I’m still her baby, even though I’m 64, which makes me laugh!” he said.

Len said that his 91-year-old mum gets particularly angry when he criticises John Sergeant.

Len Goodman has taken a break from judging on American TV show, Dancing With Stars as the constant commuting over the Atlantic is driving him to exhaustion

The 64-year-old dance expert flies to Los Angeles every Sunday morning with fellow Strictly Come Dancing judge, Bruno Tonioli to film Dancing With The Stars.

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Len Goodman, head judge on Strictly Come Dancing and the US version, Dancing with Stars has revealed that he may quit the British show as jet lag takes it toll.

Len and pal Bruno Tonioli currently fly back and forward between the two countries filming for both shows, and Len has revealed that he didn’t intend to do this years series in the UK but was talked into it by BBC bosses.

“The jet lag takes it toll,” he told News of the World. “I wasn’t going to do it this year – the flying backwards and forwards – but I got talked into it again. But this will probably be the last time. I’ll have to make the decision, if they ask me, whether to do the British show or American show.

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Strictly Come Dancing head judge, Len Goodman has compared filming the live BBC One show to having his prostate examined.

Len confessed: “There’s no real way of getting the fact out of your head that you’re going out there, it’s live and there’s ten million people watching.

“You can’t relax — it’s a bit like having your prostate examined!”

Len was speaking to contestant Lisa Snowdon on Capital Radio Breakfast show.

Strictly Come Dancing’s head judge, Len Goodman, has blasted his colleague, Craig Revel Horwood for being too nasty to the shows contestants.

The 64-year-old told The Sun: “I do argue with Craig the most. I get cross with him because he’s so mean.

“You have to temper critique with kindness — there’s always something good. He knows how I feel. That’s why I give him those horrible looks. We just come from different dancing backgrounds.” Read more & comment »

Strictly Come Dancing judge, Arlene Phillips, has branded the shows head judge, len Goodman, a sexist!

Arlene told The Mirror: “Last year Len was sometimes aggressive when he didn’t need to be and sometimes very sexist.

“I got irritated with it but I kept forgiving him. But not this year. I’m tired of forgiving.”

She acknowledged that Bruno Toniolo can also be moody, but she finds it easier to put up with his snappiness. Read more & comment »

Strictly Come Dancing judge, Len Goodman has compared himself and fellow judge, Bruno Tonioli as a bit like the ‘odd couple.’

Len and Bruno both split their time between the UK, where they judge Strictly and America, where they judge on the US equivalent ‘Dancing With Stars.’

“When I live in LA, I’m in the same block as Bruno,” Len told MSN. “And although we have separate apartments, we are a bit like the odd couple. He’s a marvellous cook but he can’t iron. So I do his shirts and he’ll do the cooking.” Read more & comment »

Strictly Come Dancing Judge, Len Goodman has revealed that he believes that men who play football are more “sissy” than men who dance.

He said: “Those footballers score a goal, they kiss and cuddle each other and then go into the showers and compare each other’s willies.

“In dance you have a beautiful girl and you are holding her close. Which one is the more sissy – I don’t know.”

The man knows what he’s talking about!