Kim Woodburn

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Kim Woodburn
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Woodburn in 2017
Born
Patricia Mary McKenzie[1]

(1942-03-25) 25 March 1942 (age 81)
Eastney, Hampshire, England[1]
Occupations
  • Television personality
  • writer
  • cleaner
Years active2002–present
Spouse(s)
Kenneth Davies
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(m. 1971; div. 1975)​

Peter Woodburn
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(m. 1979)​
Websitekimwoodburn.com

Patricia Mary "Kim" Woodburn (née McKenzie; born 25 March 1942)[1] is an English television personality, writer, and former cleaner. She is known for co-presenting the Channel 4 series How Clean Is Your House? (2003–2009) with Aggie MacKenzie, and also starred in the Canadian series Kim's Rude Awakenings (2007–2009). In 2009, Wooburn appeared on the ninth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing as runner-up. In 2017, she appeared on the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, finishing in third place.

Early life

Patricia Mary McKenzie was born in Eastney, Hampshire on 25 March 1942 to Mary Patricia (née Shaw) and Ronald McKenzie.[2][1] Woodburn says that she was constantly beaten by her mother throughout her childhood and neglected by her father, who she said later attempted to molest her as a teenager.[1] Woodburn has a sister and a brother, and several half-siblings born to her mother and various men.[1] She left home at the age of 15 and moved to Liverpool where she worked as a live-in cleaner for a family.[3][4] Woodburn's mother died in April 2000.[1]

Career

How Clean Is Your House?

In 2002, Woodburn was hired as a co-presenter of new show How Clean Is Your House? with Aggie MacKenzie, which began airing in May 2003.[5] From August to September 2009, the sixth and final series of How Clean is Your House? was aired. From 2007 to 2009, Woodburn filmed a version of How Clean is Your House in Canada, called Kim's Rude Awakenings. In August 2009, Woodburn announced to Now magazine that she would not be making any further series of How Clean Is Your House? and Channel 4 announced soon afterwards that the series had been cancelled.[6][7]

Television appearances

In November 2009, Woodburn was announced as a contestant for the ninth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. She finished as runner-up to Gino D'Acampo.[8] In March 2010, she appeared on Celebrity Come Dine with Me on Channel 4 alongside Claire Sweeney, Darren Day and Tom O'Connor.[9] In 2011, Woodburn became a regular panellist on the Big Brother spin-off series, Big Brother's Bit on the Side. In November 2011, she entered the house to set a shopping task which she also judged, while berating the housemates for their hygiene.[10]

In February 2013, Woodburn teamed up with chef, Rosemary Shrager, and the pair appeared on the fifth series of Let's Dance for Comic Relief as contestants. They danced to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" by Marilyn Monroe. They were eliminated by the panel of judges.[11] In 2014, Woodburn appeared as a contestant on an episode of The Chase Celebrity Specials.[12]

In March 2016, Woodburn took part in the second series of Famous, Rich and Homeless for BBC One. Her controversial comments on the lives of rough sleepers and some of them that she met led to a dispute between her, the public and the other volunteers on the show.[13] In April 2016, Woodburn and her husband, Pete, appeared on Channel 4's A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun in order to find a holiday home in Costa del Sol, which was to be their home during the winter months. Their budget was £320,000 and they were shown five two-three bedroom penthouses.[14] They put two offers forward of £285,000 and then £295,000 on a apartment but both were turned down by the Norwegian owner.[15]

In January 2017, Woodburn entered the Celebrity Big Brother house to participate as a housemate in its nineteenth series, entering on Day 11. She finished in third place on Day 32.[16]

In August 2018, Woodburn made a controversial appearance on ITV's Loose Women. She was asked if she would make amends with Coleen Nolan, but left after a reception by the panel that was widely described as "bullying". The incident resulted in almost 8,000 people complaining to Ofcom.[17] In 2022, Woodburn made various guest appearances on GB News and was a contestant on the E4 cooking competition Celeb Cooking School, where she was eliminated first.[18]

Other ventures

In 2006, Woodburn wrote an autobiography, Unbeaten, which detailed her early life. She used this book to reveal that in February 1966, when she was 23 years old, she gave birth to a baby, three months prematurely, who was stillborn.[1] This revelation led to a police investigation, which she readily assisted with.[19]

She has appeared in various pantomimes in theatres all over the UK. Her first pantomime performance was in the Cinderella as an Ugly Sister, alongside television co-star Aggie MacKenzie, at the Theatre Royal in Brighton – it ran from 7 December 2007 to 6 January 2008.[20] From 15 December 2010 to 3 January 2011, she made her second appearance in pantomime in Cinderella at the Woodville Halls Theatre in Gravesend – but this time, she played the Fairy Godmother. From 11 December 2012 to 26 December, she played the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella at the Grimsby Auditorium.[21] She performed in pantomime for the fourth time at the Southport Theatre in Jack and the Beanstalk – she played Fairy Starlight. The season ran from 13 December 2013 to 31 December 2013. Her fifth appearance in pantomime ran from 12 December 2014 to 11 January 2015 – she played Fairy Liquid in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at The Brindley in Runcorn. From 7 December 2018 to 2 January 2019 at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool – she played the Wicked Queen Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – this was her sixth appearance in pantomime.[22]

Woodburn was set to tour in 2019 and early 2020, over the UK with her chat-show style stage show, An Audience with Kim Woodburn, where she was going to be interviewed to speak about her life and career and take questions from an audience, however it was cancelled due to low demand.[23] In 2022, Woodburn released a range of cleaning products at Poundland.[24]

Personal life

Woodburn's first marriage to Kenneth Davies ended in divorce in 1975.[1] She married Peter Woodburn in 1979 and they live together in Cheshire.[25] They had no children.[26]

Filmography

As herself
Year Title Notes Ref
2003–2009 How Clean Is Your House? Presenter [27][28]
2004 Too Posh to Wash Presenter
2006 When Kim & Aggie Went to Hospital Presenter
2007–2009 Kim's Rude Awakenings Presenter
2009 I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Series 9; runner-up
2012 Hotel GB Housekeeping
2016 Famous, Rich and Homeless
2017 Celebrity Big Brother Series 19; third place
2022 Celeb Cooking School Contestant

Guest appearances

Bibliography

  • How Clean Is Your House? with Aggie MacKenzie (2003) ISBN 0-7181-4699-9
  • Too Posh to Wash: The Complete Guide to Cleaning Up Your Life with Aggie MacKenzie (2004) ISBN 0-7181-4769-3
  • The Cleaning Bible: Kim & Aggie's Complete Guide to Modern Household Management with Aggie MacKenzie (2006) ISBN 0-7181-4906-8
  • Unbeaten: The Story of My Brutal Childhood (2006) ISBN 0-340-92221-4

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Woodburn, Kim (7 September 2006). Unbeaten: The Story of My Brutal Childhood. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 0-340-92221-4.
  2. ^ "Patricia M McKenzie". freeBMD. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  3. ^ Browne, Amy (19 January 2017). "Kim Woodburn's secret past as a Liverpool model". liverpoolecho. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Kim Woodburn suffered years of abuse at the hands of her parents". Metro. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  5. ^ Williams, Andrew (1 September 2006). "60 SECONDS: Kim Woodburn". Metro. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
  6. ^ Slobodian, Claire (20 August 2009). "Kim Woodburn to Leave "How Clean is Your House?"". Now Magazine. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
  7. ^ Plunkett, John (12 November 2008). "Channel 4 axes Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Gino D'Acampo wins 'I'm A Celebrity'". Digital Spy. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Come Dine with Me, 17 March 2010". Channel 4. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  10. ^ Fletcher, Alex (11 February 2011). "Kim Woodburn enters Big Brother house". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Kim & Rosemary". BBC. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  12. ^ "The Chase Outtakes, Kim Woodburn's Button Pressing blooper". YouTube. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Kim Woodburn slammed by BBC viewers for her cruel words to the homeless". 10 March 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  14. ^ "A Place in the Sun, Sun 17 Apr 2016". Channel 4. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  15. ^ "Marbella, Spain - Episode 41 on April 17th 2016- A Place in the Sun". A Place in the Sun. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  16. ^ "Who is Kim Woodburn? Celebrity Big Brother 2017 profile". Radio Times. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Loose Women faces complaints over Kim Woodburn interview". BBC News. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  18. ^ "Kim Woodburn booted off chaotic Celeb Cooking School after blowing up about her celebrity co-stars: 'I'd rather clean a 20-year-old toilet'". Metro. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  19. ^ "TV star questioned over dead baby". BBC News Online. 23 August 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  20. ^ "Kim's ready to clean up on the panto stage". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  21. ^ "How Clean Is Your House's Kim and Aggie haven't spoken off camera since 2007 bust-up over panto". Metro. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  22. ^ "TV star Kim Woodburn makes sure cast of Blackpool North Pier's adult panto Aladdin and His Magic Ring are all scrubbed up in time for launch". 20 May 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  23. ^ "An Audience with Kim Woodburn". What's on Fife. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  24. ^ "Kim Woodburn Poundland". Poundland. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  25. ^ "TV's 'queen of clean' Kim Woodburn on cleaning mansions to owning one: 'I'm ever so grateful and I've been so lucky'". Belfast Telegraph. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  26. ^ "What Kim Woodburn has said about her tragic childhood in the wake of that Loose Women fight". Digital Spy. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  27. ^ "Kim Woodburn at TV Guide". TV guide. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  28. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq "Kim Woodburn at BFI". Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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