Alert – Len Goodman’s widow, Susan Barrett, and his son, James, to receive £4.6million after putting his private company into voluntary liquidation

Len Goodman’s widow, Susan Barrett, and his son, James, are due to  receive £4.6million after putting his long-standing private company into voluntary liquidation.

The Strictly Come Dancing judge, who also appeared on the show’s US version, passed away just six months into his retirement and one day before his 79th birthday.

Len’s Pleasurable Pastimes was set up in 2009 and reported the expected payout in a declaration of solvency filed at Companies House.

Len’s company is liquidating £2million in freehold property and £2.6million in cash.

Len and his widow Sue, 86, never had any children together as he shares James with another woman from a previous marriage.

Len Goodman’s widow, Susan Barrett (pictured) and his son, James, are due to receive £4.6million after putting his long-standing private company into voluntary liquidation

The Strictly Come Dancing judge, who appeared on the show’s US version, passed away just six months into his retirement and one day before his 79th birthday (pictured with son James)

Before Sue, he tied the knot to his dance partner Cherry Kingston when he was 28. She later left him to marry a French millionaire.

Sue, who was a co-director of the business, is a former professional dance instructor, nearly 20 years his junior and not much is known about her.

Len previously said: ‘She likes to stay out of the limelight’.

He regularly referred to her as ‘my wonderful Sue’ and previously told the Mail ‘she’s gorgeous and makes me very happy’.

The star also joked that his wife was lucky to share a bed with him, because he falls asleep immediately.

He said at the time: ‘I am good in bed – I don’t snore. I don’t take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That’s all you want out of a bloke.’

Len was previously married to Cherry and admitted in his autobiography ‘Better Late Than Never, that it ‘was a dancing marriage, one that lacked the spark of real love.’

When she left him, he ‘was hurt; hurt that she had done it, hurt by the way I found out…’

Len’s Pleasurable Pastimes was set up in 2009 and reported the expected payout in a declaration of solvency filed at Companies House

Len’s company is liquidating £2million in freehold property and £2.6million in cash. Len and Sue never had children as he welcomed James with another woman from a previous marriage

When she left him, he ‘was hurt; hurt that she had done it, hurt by the way I found out…’ (Pictured in 1970)

Len wrote that she was the first woman he’d ever fallen in love with and together they welcomed son James William Goodman in 1981. 

‘Life, however, was not as happy as it should have been,’ Len  wrote, via the Daily Mail. 

‘Sadly, it came to a point where being with Lesley was just impossible for me, and she couldn’t stand being with me, either.’

James followed in his father’s footsteps and trained to be a dancer.

He is now a Latin and ballroom dancer and teaches at his father’s dance hub, Goodman Dance Academy. 

James is married to Sophie Goodman and share two children together, Alice and Jack.