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Kim Woodburn - a erstwhile cleaner who recovered fame presenting the deed TV amusement How Clean Is Your House? - has died.
Woodburn, who was 86, aboriginal became a contestant connected Celebrity Big Brother successful 2017, finishing arsenic runner-up.
Her manager said successful a statement: "It is with immense sadness that we fto you cognize our beloved Kim Woodburn passed distant yesterday pursuing a abbreviated illness.
"Kim was an incredibly kind, caring, charismatic and beardown person.
"Her husband, Peter, is heartbroken astatine the nonaccomplishment of his soulmate.
"We are truthful arrogant of the astonishing things Kim achieved successful her beingness and career.
"We kindly inquire that Kim's hubby and adjacent friends are fixed the clip and privateness they request to grieve.
"We volition not beryllium releasing immoderate further details."
On Tuesday, her hubby shared a video montage of photos of Woodburn implicit the years, starting erstwhile she was conscionable 4 years old, with the message: "My wonderful, beautiful, Kim passed distant past night. God bless, my love, xx xx"
Known for her trademark tight, plaited bun, Kim was mostly unsighted successful her close eye, and had mediocre show successful her near eye, and earlier this twelvemonth had told her followers she was undergoing exigency oculus surgery.
Woodburn, who had been selling video greetings to fans, shared her past Instagram station successful February, erstwhile she posted a connection saying "Kim is incapable to grounds immoderate further videos for the foreseeable aboriginal owed to a wellness problem".
She wrote: "No much videos for now, my loves, I request to get better!"
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Woodburn, calved Patricia Mary successful Hampshire, near a turbulent location beingness aged 16, moving to Liverpool to go a live-in cleaner.
She revealed successful her 2006 autobiography that, astatine the property of 23, she prematurely gave commencement to a stillborn lad and buried him successful a park.
The revelation successful her publication led to a constabulary inquiry, but nary enactment was taken by officers.
In the aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic the stillbirth, she changed her sanction to Kim - aft American histrion Kim Novak.
Years later, she was scouted by a TV institution looking for a cleaner with an engaging property to beforehand How Clean is Your House?
Paired with Scottish cleaner Aggie MacKenzie, the 2 nonrecreational cleaners fronted the amusement - a ratings deed and a pioneer for the location cleaning genre - from 2003 to 2009.
Woodburn went connected to look successful Celebrity Big Brother, I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of here! and E4's Celebrity Cooking School, arsenic good arsenic regularly contributing to ITV's This Morning and Loose Women.
She besides appeared connected The Oprah Winfrey Show, Big Brother's Bit On The Side, Celebrity Come Dine With Me and A Place In The Sun.
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