Better Late Than Never

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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 & also on the no.1 US show Dancing with the Stars & his encounters with the likes of Heather Mills-Mc Cartney & John Sergeant. But the real story is in his East End roots. & 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 & veg barrow & 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 & 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. & Len it turned out was a natural. At first his family & work mates mocked but soon he had made the final of a national competition & the welders descended en masse to the Albert Hall to cheer him on. With his dance partner & then wife Cheryl Len won the British Championships in his late twenties & ballroom dancing became his life. Funny & heart-warming Len Goodman's autobiography has all the honest East End charm of Tommy Steele Mike Read or Roberta Taylor.