[6] Goodman turned professional, won various competitions, and retired from dancing after winning the British Championships at Blackpool in his late twenties.

[11] On 14 November 2022, Goodman announced during the season 31 semifinals broadcast that he would be retiring from the show to spend more time with his family in Great Britain.

[13][14][15] On 24 October 2023, Dancing With The Stars Season 32 paid tribute to the late Goodman, when many of the original dancers returned to perform a choreographed group waltz to "Moon River".

[17] In March and April 2012, Goodman hosted a three-part BBC One documentary that was broadcast in the United States by PBS for the 100th anniversary of the voyage and sinking of the RMS Titanic.

It capitalised on his experience as a welder at Harland and Wolff, and in it he interviewed descendants of survivors, and introduced viewers to memorials and significant sites in the United Kingdom.

[19] In August 2014, Goodman was one of a number of well-known faces taking part in ITV's two-part documentary series Secrets from the Clink.

[27] In 2006 he appeared on an all singing/dancing version of The Weakest Link and beat Stacey Haynes in the final to win the prize money of £8,050, for his nominated hospice care charity Demelza, of which he was an official patron.

[6][32] He then had a long-term relationship with a woman named Lesley, whom he described as the ex-wife of "a bloke called Wilf Pine who had managed the band Black Sabbath".

[34] On 30 December 2012, Goodman married his companion of more than ten years, Sue Barrett, a 47-year-old dance teacher, in a small ceremony at Mosimann's, a London dining club.

[37] In October 2011, Goodman appeared on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?,[38] in which he discovered that one of his maternal ancestors was a silk-weaver who died a pauper in the Bethnal Green workhouse.

[44] Goodman died from prostate cancer that metastasized to his bones[45][46][47] at a hospice in Royal Tunbridge Wells on 22 April 2023, three days before his 79th birthday.

[49] Strictly presenter Claudia Winkleman called Goodman "a class act" who was full of "twinkle, warmth and wit".