Movie star Massive Brother and How Clear Is Your Home star dies aged 83

How Clear Is Your Home star Aggie MacKenzie has paid tribute to her former co-star Kim Woodburn, following her dying aged 83.

The pair shot to fame in 2003 on the Channel 4 present, which noticed them go to soiled properties and spruce them up.

MacKenzie informed The Solar: “Kim was a tormented soul, however now she’s lastly at peace.

“We clashed typically. Behind the fierce persona was deep ache and unbelievable power. She survived as a result of she needed to. I hope she’s resting now. She was an unforgettable girl.”

MacKenzie and Woodburn didn’t know one another effectively earlier than the launch of How Clear is Your Home, having been paired up following a display check.

Woodburn additionally appeared on Movie star Massive Brother and was well-known for her outspoken views.

In a press release asserting her dying, Woodburn’s supervisor informed BBC Information: “It’s with immense disappointment that we let our beloved Kim Woodburn handed away yesterday following a brief sickness.

“Kim was an extremely type, caring, charismatic and robust individual. Her husband Peter is heartbroken on the lack of his soulmate.

“We’re so pleased with the wonderful issues Kim achieved in her life and profession.”

He added: “We kindly ask that Kim’s husband and shut associates are given the time and privateness they should grieve.”

On Woodburn’s official Instagram account, run by her husband, a submit learn: “My fantastic, lovely Kim handed away final night time. God bless, my love,” accompanied by quite a few photographs of Woodburn through the years.

Singing duo Jedward, who appeared alongside Woodburn in Movie star Massive Brother, have been amongst these paying tribute.

“Relaxation in Peace My Pretty,” the pair mentioned. “You had our again after we acquired bullied in CBB and we’ll always remember that. There’ll by no means be one other Kim Woodburn.”

Producer Lee Smithurst, who was the showrunner for Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, posted a photograph on X of Woodburn chatting with faculty kids.

“Unhappy to listen to about Kim Woodburn,” Smithurst mentioned. “I solely labored together with her as soon as in 2018 and she or he was all the things you’d need her to be. After ending filming she observed the venue was subsequent to a college and mentioned ‘I am an enormous hit with the first youngsters, expensive. Has anybody acquired a pen?’ – she was proper.”

Woodburn was additionally a daily contributor on Unfastened Ladies and This Morning, and was well-known for her outspoken views.

She grew to become a well known cultural determine following her stint on Channel 5’s Movie star Massive Brother in 2017, happening to spark a number of memes.

Woodburn famously fell out with Unfastened Ladies panellist Coleen Nolan when each took half in Movie star Massive Brother.

Woodburn appeared on Unfastened Ladies in 2018 in an try and settle their feud however a tense change between them left Woodburn in tears.

She broke down as she mentioned her traumatic childhood, earlier than strolling off the set.

The conflict sparked greater than 3,000 complaints to regulator Ofcom, with the bulk about how the Unfastened Ladies panel handled Woodburn.

Woodburn’s different excessive profile TV appearances included showing within the ninth collection of I am a Movie star… Get Me Out of Right here! She completed as runner-up to Gino D’Acampo in 2009.

But it surely was Channel 4’s How Clear Is Your Home that gave Woodburn her large break. The producers teamed her up with Aggie MacKenzie and the present went on to be successful, operating from 2003 to 2009.

It featured the dynamic duo tackling filthy properties, providing cleansing tricks to viewers alongside the best way.

The extremely camp present, with its dramatic music and Woodburn’s scolding of the offending owners, proved an enormous hit, turning the pair into in a single day stars.

Woodburn was additionally among the many line-up for E4’s Movie star Cooking Faculty in 2022.

Liverpool-based radio presenter, Pete Value, wrote on X: “You really liked or hated this bigger than life character. I liked her.”

Popular culture author Nick Levine mentioned: “RIP Kim Woodburn. A excessive camp icon who drag queens shall be doing for eternity, and gays and huns will nonetheless be quoting on the day by day. Impression!”

Woodburn was born in Hampshire however left house at 16 and moved to Liverpool the place she labored as a live-in cleaner.

She later settled in Nantwich, Cheshire, with second husband Peter Woodburn, who she married in 1979.

Chatting with BBC present Heaven and Earth in 2008, Woodburn talked about her troublesome childhood, referring to her 2007 autobiography, Unbeaten.

She mentioned she was despatched to a boarding faculty early on: “I discovered the nuns extraordinarily merciless, my sister and I have been there. We have been very younger, we have been all very badly handled. They beat you, they have been very chilly to you. I used to be about three or 4 [when she went]. There was no kindness in any respect.”

She additionally talked about changing into pregnant in her 20s and shedding the newborn at six months, happening to bury him in a park in Liverpool.

“I used to be by myself, I did not have the backing of my mother and father. My boyfriend of three years had gone and located another person. I am so glad as we speak it is not such a shameful factor. You needn’t do what I needed to resort to now out of disgrace and disappointment. In fact I do (nonetheless take into consideration her son)… it is solely pure.”

She mentioned she would by no means forgive her mother and father for the cruelty they confirmed her.