Kim Woodburn has issued a health update after she confirmed surgery(Image: Instagram/@kimwoodburn)

Kim Woodburn has been flooded with messages of support as she confirmed she has been taken to hospital. The 82-year-old TV personality was born in Portsmouth but later moved to Merseyside and is believed to have lived on Bagot Street in Wavertree.

The How Clean Is Your House star regularly shares updates from her life on Instagram. She has taken to social media today to reveal her work commitments have been cancelled into the next month.

The statement said: “We regret to tell you that Kim is unable to record further videos until Friday March 7.” Kim has provided a health update to explain the sudden cancellations as she said: “Due to surgery to eye.”

Followers took to the comments to wish the I’m A Celebrity contestant well after the update. Jonathon said: “Sending love Kim.” Kez commented: “Get well soon Kim.”

James took to the comments and added: “Get well soon my love wishing you a speedy recovery. Sending you lots of love.” Maria added: Hope you’re ok dear Kim. Wishing you a speedy recovery xxx.”

Sparkle said: “Feel better soon Kim xx.” Steve commented: “Get well soon my love x” Stuart posted: “Hope you have a speedy recovery, darling.”

Kim has been a household name since 2003 when she co-presented Channel 4’s How Clean Is Your House, with Aggie MacKenzie. The show saw the pair make the nation’s grubbiest homes habitable once more and was a big hit, with Kim reportedly becoming the highest paid female presenter on Channel 4 at the time.

She went to the Australian jungle in 2009 to compete in ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!. In 2017, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother where she was centre of a number of iconic moments, including being temporarily removed from the Big Brother house by a security team after an explosive row with Danielle Lloyd’s ex-husband Jamie O’Hara, in which she screamed: “You adulterer, that two-timed your wife and she’s got three kids. These people, they put me through hell.”

Before her rise to fame, Kim worked in children’s homes, in retail, and as a social worker helping teenage girls in the city. The star – then known as Patricia McKenzie – embarked on a modelling career, doing jobs for Littlewoods in the late 1960s.

In 1983, Kim appeared on TV show Pebble Mill at One, demonstrating knitwear, but her brush with fame was short-lived and she went on to work as a professional house cleaner in the UK and US.