Snarky lead judge for Dancing with the Stars- Len Goodman- has revealed his recent battle with prostate cancer. He had surgery last month to remove a cancerous tumor in his prostate gland.

“I’ve had the surgery now. Everything’s gorgeously good,” Goodman told The Mail.  “I’ll be back in September for sure.”

He said the cancer was discovered in March in the midst of filming Dancing, but waited until the season wrapped to have the surgery performed.

“I could have said sorry and not done the show, but the doctors felt I wasn’t riddled with it and it wasn’t so far advanced that it was a life-or-death scenario,” he told The Mail. “It takes a few weeks to get everything set up for the operation anyway, so I went ahead and did the show. I had the surgery done as soon as I got back from America.”

Now Goodman has taken it upon himself to advocate middle-aged men getting regularly tested. They found the cancer early enough in him that it was treatable and he should be fine, and he wants that for others.

“As long as you get checked up every year, then medicine is such now that if you do get something, then hopefully they can catch it early and you have a good chance,” he told The Mail. “I think that’s the most important thing — men of a certain age should have their check-up every year.”

We are so happy to make this a happy report and that Len is recovering well and doing fine. Obviously, early detection is so important in these situations. We wish him the speediest of recoveries!!

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