Kim Woodburn, the British actuality star greatest recognized for “How Clean Is Your House?”, has died. She was 83.
Woodburn handed away Monday after a brief sickness, her supervisor confirmed to BBC Information.
“Kim was an incredibly kind, caring, charismatic and strong person,” the supervisor stated. “Her husband Peter is heartbroken at the loss of his soulmate.”
The assertion continued, “We are so proud of the amazing things Kim achieved in her life and career. We kindly ask that Kim’s husband and close friends are given the time and privacy they need to grieve.”
Woodburn’s husband, Peter, mourned her dying in a publish on her Instagram account Tuesday.
“My wonderful, beautiful, Kim passed away last night. God bless, my love, xx xx,” Peter wrote, alongside pictures of the late star over time.
Woodburn’s reason behind dying has not been confirmed.
In March, a message on Woodburn’s Instagram talked about that she was coping with “a health problem.”
“We regret to tell you that Kim is unable to record any further videos for the foreseeable due to a health problem,” the publish learn, including, “Kim sends her love to you all.”
Woodburn, often called the “Queen of Clean,” was born in Hampshire however moved to Liverpool when she was 16 and have become a live-in cleaner.
On the BBC present “Heaven and Earth” in 2008, Woodburn opened up about her tough childhood together with being despatched to boarding faculty.
“I found the nuns extremely cruel, my sister and I were there. We were very young, we were all very badly treated,” she stated, per BBC. “They beat you, they were very cold to you. I was about three or four. There was no kindness at all.”
When she was in her 20s, Woodburn obtained pregnant and gave delivery to a stillborn son who she buried in a park in Liverpool.
Woodburn later rose to fame on the Channel 4 collection “How Clean Is Your House?”
She co-presented the collection alongside Aggie Mackenzie from 2003 to 2009. Throughout every episode, the pair did a deep cleansing of somebody’s home and shared their very own ideas for tidying up.
Woodburn went on to seem on the UK model of “Celebrity Big Brother” in 2017. She notoriously fell out with “Loose Women” star Colleen Nolan on the present.
In 2018, the pair got here to blows once more when Woodburn got here onto the ITV speak present. Woodburn referred to as Nolan “lying trash” and a “piece of filth” earlier than she stormed off the set.
Woodburn’s actuality TV profession additionally included an look on “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” in 2009, the place she got here in second place.
Woodburn was married twice. Her first marriage was to Kenneth Davies which led to divorce in 1975.
4 years later, she married Peter they usually lived collectively in Nantwich, Cheshire.