Len Goodman
Len Goodman injured his foot playing football and was told his bones would never heal well enough for him to be a professional footballer.
And so, Len Goodman turned towards ballroom dancing and became first a professional dancer and then a professional dance judge and teacher.
Len Goodman won the British Exhibition four times and was the runner up in the Exhibition World Championships.
Len Goodman runs a couple of dance schools in Kent and he told the Telegraph about the impact of Strictly Come Dancing, on which he is the senior judge:
"I run two dance schools and we've had an increase in business of around 40 per cent since Strictly Come Dancing started ..."
As well as being a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, Len Goodman also judges the equivalent TV show in the USA, Dancing With The Stars.
Len Goodman, who described himself as the 'star that never twinkled', is not short of a neat turn of phrase or two.
Regarding Roger Black in 2004, The Times review of Strictly Come Dancing quotes Goodman as saying: "The standing spin looked like you were kick-starting a motorbike."
The Times also did a good job of highlighting another excellent phrase of Len Goodman:
"Len Goodman has a phrase to connote flash without substance: 'all sizzle and no sausage'."