Patricia Mary Woodburn known professionally as Kim Woodburn, is an English television personality, writer, and former cleaner. She is known for co-presenting the Channel 4 series How Clean Is Your House?, and also starred in the Canadian series Kim's Rude Awakenings. In 2017, Woodburn participated in the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, finishing in third place.
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. 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.
Reality television
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. 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. 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. She had arguments with James Jordan who mocked her for being a cleaner, as well as multiple arguments with Nicola McLean. On Day 15, Jamie O'Hara intervened in an argument between Woodburn and McLean after Kim called him a "chicken-livered bugger", Woodburn and O'Hara argued themselves and Kim told Jamie "you're an adulterer that two-timed his wife and has got three kids", this referring to Jamie cheating which was widely reported in the media. This resulted in security entering the house and Woodburn was ordered to sleep in a separate room for the night. Woodburn was immune from nominations during her first week in the house but was eventually nominated to face every eviction by her housemates. In 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. On 6 February 2017, Woodburn appeared on This Morning where she was chastised by presenter Philip Schofield over her behaviour in the house. Woodburn scolded him for not being impartial; she also criticized ex-housemate Coleen Nolan and disagreed with her winning the series.
Other television appearances
In March 2010, she appeared on 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 an episode 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. 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. On 29 August 2018, Woodburn appeared on ITV's Loose Women. She was asked if she would make amends with Coleen Nolan, but left after arguing with the other panellists. Over 8,000 complaints were made to Ofcom about Woodburn's treatment on the show. In May 2019, Woodburn appeared on Tenable All Stars alongside Christopher Biggins, Joe Pasquale, Martin Roberts and Tony Blackburn.
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 a stillborn. This revelation led to a police investigation, which she readily assisted with. 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. 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. 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 2014to 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. Throughout 2019 and early 2020, she toured theatres all over the UK with her chat-show style stage show, An Audience with Kim Woodburn, where she was interviewed to speak about her life and career and also took questions from the audience.
Personal life
Born in Eastney, Woodburn left home and moved to Liverpool at the age of 18. 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. Woodburn has a sister and a brother, and several half-siblings born to her mother and various men. Her mother died in 2000.
