After the live Saturday (and recorded-for-Sunday vote reveal) of Strictly, they would fly to Los Angeles for the Monday night ABC studio session, returning later in the week for the next BBC show.Ġ1:35 'Everyone can dance': a look back at Len Goodman's life and career – video When working on both the British and US versions, Goodman and Tonioli became the first British TV stars since Sir David Frost to appear in both country’s schedules each week. He served on Strictly Come Dancing from 2004-16, and, from 2005, was also on the panel of the US spin-off, Dancing with the Stars, on which he continued until last year, though with increasing gaps as travel and illness took a toll. The screen test went so well that Goodman – whose death was announced this morning, one day before what would have been his 79th birthday – lived out an extraordinary second act of celebrity, wealth, Emmy and National TV award nominations. There was one further hiccup: the BBC car picking him up for the tryout show couldn’t find the Kent golf club rendezvous, so they reached the studio after recording had started. He so impressed that he was appointed lead judge on what became Strictly Come Dancing.
Goodman’s audition consisted of teaching the producer, Izzie Pick Ibarra, salsa from scratch and commenting on film of dancing couples. Light entertainment bosses had panicked that the planned judging panel was imbalanced towards stage choreographers (Arlene Phillips, Craig Revel Horwood) and a Latinist (Bruno Tonioli), with no ballroom expert. He admitted in his memoirs to being miffed enough about this omission that he lied to friends about having turned down an offer.Įventually, just before the recording of a pilot show, Goodman was contacted. Friends and colleagues were being auditioned, but Goodman had not been asked. His one regret was that the BBC was working on a new hoofing show, having axed Come Dancing a decade earlier.
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