had a son, John. Goodman was 36 at this time. Lesley, he wrote, was the ex-wife of "a bloke called Wilf Pine who had managed the band Black Sabbath. Lesley and Wilf got married in Connecticut...." Goodman and Lesley's son, John William Goodman Bell, was born on 26 January 1981 but at the age of 12 moved with his mother back to her native Isle of Wight after his parents had broken up. As of 2012, James started Latin and ballroom dancing at his father's Goodman Dance Centre. On 30 December 2012 Goodman married his companion of more than ten years, Sue Barrett, a 47-year-old dance teacher, in a small ceremony at a London dining club Mosimann's. Goodman is a West Ham United fan and was featured on the BBC football show Football Focus on 26 September 2009. He is also a keen cricket fan, and, in 2009, took part in a celebrity Ashes cricket game. Goodman was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2009, which was treated surgically at a London hospital. In October 2011, Goodman appeared on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, in which he discovered that one of his maternal ancestors was a silk-weaver who died a pauper in the Bethnal Green workhouse. Goodman's great great grandfather, Josef/Joseph Sosnowski, came from Poland, where he fought in the anti-tsarist November uprising for which he was awarded Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage. After finding out about his ancestry, Goodman said: "I feel no different, I look no different, I am no different and yet I’m not what I thought I was. I thought that I was truly an Anglo-Saxon, English through and through." In September 2021 it was reported that Goodman had undergone surgery, in 2020, for a small facial melanoma. Filmography Strictly Come Dancing (2004–2016) Dancing with the Stars (2005–2022) Titanic with Len Goodman (2012) Len Goodman's Dance Band Days (2013) Len Goodman's Perfect Christmas (2013) Dancing Cheek to Cheek (2013) Secrets from the Clink (2014) Holiday of My Lifetime (2014–2016) The Kylie Show (2007) Perspectives: For The Love of Fred Astaire (2015) Len and Ainsley's Big Food Adventure (2015) Strictly Len Goodman (2016) Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme (2017) Hollyoaks (2021) Publications Smith, Rupert (2005), Strictly Come Dancing; dance consultant: Len Goodman. London: BBC Books References External links Len Goodman Official website James Goodman Dance Website Goodman bio at