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Len is someone we've wanted to have join us for a long time now, and it's going to be an exciting day filled with interesting tales.

It was her favorite role, in Gantimpala's staging of 'Kanser,' a flamboyant persona that sometimes concealed the fact that Len was an artist of great insight and sensitivity.

Len, who was born in 1933, lived in Handbridge for almost seven decades.

Paying tribute, Helen Thomas, Head of BBC Yorkshire, said: "Len was the gentle giant of politics in Yorkshire - as a colleague he was kind, honest and always ready to help others.

I trust, in conclusion, our local sports pundits will give Len a more generous appraisal in future.

He said: "I've judged her at thousands of competitions and I taught her and her husband Corky, and there's no one when I the News Len section'who knows their ballroom and Latin like her.

Len's is (altogether now) 'If you've got the time, Len's got the rhyme'.

k c i " Len had been Strictly's head judge since it began in 2004 and also for the US version, Dancing with the Stars.

Heba says Len used to "enrich" film nights at the centre with his theatrical, poetic and musical performances.

Len has been wonderful and I absolutely adore him and I adore our on-screen arguments."

Bu Guto Dafydd yn byw a bod yn y Babell Len eleni; bu'n sgwrsio am ei nofel arobryn "Ymbelydredd" a'r Athro Gerwyn Williams ac yn arwain sesiynau difyr gyda "rocars a gwalltiau cyrliog".

When Saturday Night Fever ight and Grease came along in the 1970s, Len suddenly found his dance studio in Dartford hit by disco fever as young hopefuls turned up keen to learn to move like John Travolta.

"Most people of my generation and my parents generation met in a dance hall or the village hall or the Mecca ballroom because that is where people went," smiles Len.

BY JAMES DESBOROUGH STRICTLY'S head judge Len Goodman has hinted he might quit the US version of the ballroom dance show.