Kim Woodburn

How Clean is Your House?

In 2002, Woodburn auditioned for Channel 4, while earning £1,000 a month as a cleaner. Woodburn was hired as a co-presenter of new show How Clean is Your House? with Aggie MacKenzie, which began airing in May 2003, and eventually became the highest paid Channel 4 female presenter. At the age of 61, Woodburn was launched into stardom as the show became an instant success.^[2] From August – September 2009, the sixth and final series of How Clean is Your House? was aired. From 2007 – 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?^[3] and Channel 4 announced soon afterwards that the show would be cancelled.^[4]

I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!

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 TV chef, Gino D'Acampo. Her success on I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here!, led to a stand in role as host of This Morning.

Big Brother UK and Celebrity Big Brother

In 2011, Woodburn became a regular panellist on the Big Brother spin-off show, Big Brother's Bit on the Side. In November 2011, she entered the Big Brother house to set a shopping task which she also judged, while berating the housemates for their lack of hygiene.^[5]

On 13 January 2017, Woodburn entered the Celebrity Big Brother house to participate as a housemate in its nineteenth series, entering on Day 11. After entering the house, she clashed with fellow new housemates Jessica Cunningham and Chloe Ferry after Ferry accidentally splashed her with water.^[6] She had arguments with James Jordan who mocked her for being a cleaner.^[7] She also clashed with Spencer Pratt and occasionally his wife Heidi Montag, whom she referred to as "evil" and "rotten pigs". The series was dominated by her multiple arguments with Nicola McLean. On Day 15, Jamie O'Hara intervened in an argument between Woodburn and McLean, which resulted in security entering the house and Woodburn was ordered to sleep in a separate room for the night.^[8]

Woodburn was immune from nominations during her first week in the house but was eventually nominated to face every eviction by her housemates.^{[9][10][11][12]} On Day 32 (The Final), Woodburn was evicted and finished in third place with 14.52% of the final vote. Despite this, she left to a chorus of boos from the crowd, some of her former housemates could be seen jeering her on a screen behind her.^[13][14] Emma Willis was criticized for being rude towards her during her interview and for not reprimanding McLean, who had finished in fifth place earlier in the evening, about an apparent insensitive comment she made about Woodburn being childless.^[15]

On February 6, 2017, Woodburn appeared on This Morning where she was chastised by Philip Schofield over her behaviour in the house, Woodburn did not take Schofield's criticism lightly and scolded him for not being impartial. She also criticized her ex-housemate Coleen Nolan, a friend of Schofield's and disagreed with her winning the series.^[16]

Other television appearances

In March 2010 she appeared in Celebrity Come Dine With Me on Channel 4 alongside Claire Sweeney, Darren Day and Tom O'Connor.

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.

In 2014, Woodburn appeared as a contestant on one of The Chase Celebrity Specials.

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.^[17]

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 on the glamorous 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.^[18]

Woodburn appeared on ITV's Loose Women in August 2018. She was asked if she would make amends with Coleen Nolan, but left after suffering torrents of abuse from the panellists.^[19]

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 baby, three months prematurely, who was a stillborn.^[1] This revelation led to a police investigation, which she readily assisted with.^[20]

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 TV co-star Aggie MacKenzie, at the Theatre Royal in Brighton – it ran from 7 December 2007 – 6 January 2008.

From 15 December 2010 – 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 – 26th December, she played the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella at the Grimsby Auditorium.

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 – 31 December 2013. Her fifth appearance in pantomime ran from 12 December 2014 – 11 January 2015 – she played Fairy Liquid in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at The Brindley in Runcorn.

She was due to play Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at Northwich Memorial Hall from 10 December 2016 – 2 January 2017, but due to having an argument and falling out with her fellow cast member, James Argent, the producers of the pantomime removed her from the production.