How Clean is Your House? star Kim Woodburn dies aged 83 after short illness
She has died aged 83.
Kim Woodburn has died after a short illness, her representative has confirmed.
The How Clean is Your House? Channel 4 star was 83 at the time of her death.
In a statement on Tuesday, a representative told Metro: ‘It is with immense sadness that we let you know our beloved Kim Woodburn passed away yesterday following a short illness.
‘Kim was an incredibly kind, caring, charismatic and strong person.
‘Her husband Peter is heartbroken at the loss of his soulmate.
‘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. We will not be releasing any further details.’
Her husband Peter Woodburn, 79, posted to Instagram with a series of photos of the ITV star through the years with the caption: ‘My wonderful, beautiful, Kim passed away last night. God bless, my love, xx xx’
‘Incredible woman, she will be missed greatly,’ raven_ruthless said.
‘Rest in peace Kim, you were such an icon and my favourite person to watch when times were hard. There’s no one else like you,’ caliixcx added.
‘RIP Kim. You rocked the reality TV world and made us laugh so much throughout the years. Thank you for the laughs,’ a.f96_ echoed.
‘She put a lot of smiles and laughs on a lot of faces – especially during the lockdown period when everyone was needing it most. She’s been a MASSIVE part of my friendships, referencing her famous sayings every single day. She will be remembered for a long time,’ el.jay27 agreed.
The late reality star appeared in shows like Celebrity Big Brother (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock) The TV star was a runner-up on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)Across social media tributes have started pouring in for Woodburn.
Drag Race star Victoria Scone wrote on Instagram: ‘Devastated that we’ve lost an absolute Portsmouth DIVA icon & star. I can’t tell you how much I adore this woman. What a bloody legend. ????
‘She was my snatch audition for drag race U.K. and got to do her (quite terribly) on Canada vs the world.’
This Morning co-hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard also addressed her death on Tuesday’s show.
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Previous Page Next Page‘It was a lightning that burned very brightly and very strongly at times with our Kim Woodburn,’ Shephard said.
LBC commentator Nick Ferrari added: ‘I was thinking those two, in a way, were almost like the female equivalent of the Hairy Bikers. They were so genuine, you could see the bond between them. The fact that they were so true shone through to the viewers
‘That’s why it just worked. They were regular, genuine folk behaving in that fashion.’
The former cleaner launched her reality TV career in the 90s (Picture: Channel Four)‘BEYOND devastated to hear the news today that TV legend and icon Kim Woodburn has sadly passed away. There will never be anyone like Kim. RIP,’ @superTV247 wrote on X.
‘Kim Woodburn is a solidified British TV icon. Just pure telly gold from How Clean Is Your House? to I’m a Celeb… and who could forget her infamous stint on Celebrity Big Brother. RIP Kim, thanks for the laughs,’ Jonny said.
After rising to prominence on the reality series How Clean Is Your House? in her 50s which she hosted alongside Aggie MacKenzie in the 00s, Woodburn became a reality TV household name.
She went onto star in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2009 where she was runner-up and Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.
The late TV personality was also a regular face on ITV daytime shows such as This Morning and Loose Women.
Woodburn was pictured with her husband in January on her way to The Vivienne’s funeral (Picture: FARRELL / BACKGRID) In 2006 she published an autobiography, Unbeaten: The Story Of My Brutal Childhood (Picture: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock)She married her husband in 1979 and recently described herself as ‘a passionate woman, very passionate’ woman when discussing her marriage.
Woodburn was born in March 1942 and moved out at 16. She has previously opened up about the sexual abuse she endured from her father at a young age and told Loose Women in 2017 that the experience ‘never leaves you’.
During her time on Celebrity Big Brother she had added: ‘If I see a mum and dad with a couple of kids holding hands I think ‘I never had that’. I get jealous. You never forget.’
After leaving home she worked as a as a cleaner in cities like Liverpool and Kent for much of her adult life until she was found by Channel 4 after the network contacted a cleaning company looking for someone with a ‘funny temperament’.
What we know about Kim Woodburn’s recent health issuesIn March, Woodburn worried fans after taking a break from work following an eye operation as she told those asking for paid-for-videos that she would be unable to do so for the ‘foreseeable future due to a health problem’.
Woodburn first spoke about her visual impairment in 2011, explaining that she had noticed she had started squinting in her late teens.
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Previous Page Next PageShe added to The Sun at the time: ‘If you watch me carefully you will see I never stare at people and I blink a lot.
‘If I do have to see something across the room I swivel my entire body around and look from my good eye.
‘I was born with little or no sight in my right eye and not great sight in my left eye.’
Elsewhere, Woodburn also revealed she had undergone plastic surgery after watching herself bathe in the jungle.
In 2024, she explained that she had breast reduction surgery, telling the Daily Star: ‘I’ve always had huge knockers; they were very big; they were hanging badly.
‘When I saw this after the jungle, I thought, “Oh, God, Kim they look awful love.”
‘So I went and got them made smaller. So, now listen up, if I take my bra off they’re firm and pert just like an 18-year-old’s.’
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