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I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

Len Goodman

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Len Goodman
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 25
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Leonard Gordon Goodman
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