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Dancing With The Stars judge Len Goodman has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his prostate gland.

The 65-year-old underwent an operation three weeks ago at a Bupa Hospital in Blackheath, London.

Len was diagnosed with the disease following a routine check-up in March, but he put off treatment until he had finished filming the current season of DWTS.

“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,” Len told the Mail On Sunday.

“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.”