Len Goodman. David Livingston/Getty Photographs
Dancing With the Stars is giving Len Goodman the last word honor by renaming the coveted trophy after the late choose.
“The Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy will now be lifted on Dancing With the Stars just like the Vince Lombardi trophy is lifted on the Tremendous Bowl,” government producer Conrad Inexperienced advised USA At present on Wednesday, September 20. “We needed to make Len a everlasting a part of this present, to all the time remind individuals the significance he’s needed to Dancing With the Stars and the way a lot he meant to all of us.”
Along with memorializing Goodman with the grand prize, Inexperienced additionally teased that the season 32 premiere of the competitors collection, which airs on September 26, shall be devoted to Goodman, who had been the pinnacle choose on DWTS since its inaugural season in 2005.
“Len loves this present and can all the time be there, wanting down on us,” he stated to the outlet.
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Remembering a dance legend. After reaching success as a ballroom dancer, Len Goodman discovered fame as a TV choose on Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing With the Stars. Goodman — who died in April 2023 at age 78, simply three days shy of his 79th birthday — started his profession on the dance ground at […]
Us Weekly confirmed in April that Goodman had died on the age of 78 following his personal battle with bone most cancers. “It’s with nice unhappiness to announce that Len Goodman has handed away peacefully, aged 78,” his agent, Jackie Gill, advised Us in an announcement. “A much-loved husband, father and grandfather who shall be sorely missed by household, buddies and all who knew him.”
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5 months earlier than his passing, Goodman introduced that he was retiring as a choose on DWTS following its thirty first season. (Goodman was additionally head choose of the present’s BBC counterpart, Strictly Come Dancing, from its premiere in 2004 to 2016.)
“I’ve been with the present because it began in 2005 and it has been an enormous pleasure to be a part of such a beautiful present, however I’ve determined I wish to spend extra time with my grandchildren and household again in Britain,” he revealed on the time. “I can’t thanks sufficient, the Dancing With the Stars household, it’s been such a beautiful expertise for me and I’m wanting ahead a lot to subsequent week’s finale.”
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Strictly Come Dancing paid an emotional tribute to Goodman on its season 21 premiere final week along with his former costars sharing a few of their favourite reminiscences of the ballroom choose.
“He’d lived a life and he introduced all that have to the present. He would inform you you’d danced awfully, however in such a pleasant method you type of didn’t thoughts,” Strictly choose Anton Du Beke recalled. “Len is someone you’d wish to have as a pal and I used to be lucky sufficient to have Len as a pal for a few years.”
