Kim Woodburn made a huge mark on the British TV landscape with her no-nonsense attitude and fans were left heartbroken after her death was announced on Tuesday.
The Celebrity Big Brother star sadly passed away aged 83 on Monday 16 June, her management announced in a statement on Wednesday.
Her career on the telly spans nearly 25 years, and within that time she certainly made some great television.
Kim shot to fame in the early 2000s and became a well known TV personality after appearing on How Clean Is Your House? between 2003 and 2009.
She later presented Too Posh to Wash, When Kim & Aggie Went to Hospital and Kim’s Rude Awakenings.
Kim, who was dubbed the Queen of Clean, also dipped her toe in a number of reality shows such as Celebrity Big Brother, I’m a Celebrity and also appeared on talk show programmes such as Loose Women.
And it is her appearance on those shows that have left viewers admiring her unflinching, unapologetic attitude.
Kim Woodburn made a huge mark on the British TV landscape with her no-nonsense attitude and fans were left heartbroken after her death was announced on Tuesday.
The Celebrity Big Brother star sadly passed away aged 83 on Monday 16 June, her management announced in a statement on Wednesday.
Her career on the telly spans nearly 25 years, and within that time she certainly made some great television.
Kim shot to fame in the early 2000s and became a well known TV personality after appearing on How Clean Is Your House? between 2003 and 2009.
She later presented Too Posh to Wash, When Kim & Aggie Went to Hospital and Kim’s Rude Awakenings.
Kim, who was dubbed the Queen of Clean, also dipped her toe in a number of reality shows such as Celebrity Big Brother, I’m a Celebrity and also appeared on talk show programmes such as Loose Women.
And it is her appearance on those shows that have left viewers admiring her unflinching, unapologetic attitude.
Coleen and Kim clashed live on Loose Women(Image: REX/Shutterstock)
During her time on the show, Kim had a pretty difficult time, and came out saying her fellow housemates ‘bullied her.’
She was at the centre of a number of huge spats in the house, mainly with WAG Nicola McLean. One of their worst rows was broken up by security as the presenter lost it in front of the other housemates.
Kim said repeatedly since leaving the house she had hated the experience, with housemates making comments about her confrontational attitude and making jibes at her “hairpiece.”
The blonde star also got into rows with Strictly professional James Jordan, who mocked her cleaning career, and Spencer and Heidi Pratt, who she referred to as “evil” and “rotten pigs.”
Security had to take her away from Nicola(Image: Channel 5)
Speaking about Kim, Coleen told fellow housemate James Cosmo,”You can’t have it out with someone who doesn’t listen or acknowledge. She just wants to shout. She doesn’t want to listen. I’ll then get more and more angry and nothing will be resolved.
“People say maybe I’ll feel better if I got it off my chest, but I don’t think I will because I will walk out more frustrated that she hasn’t got it.”
She added in the Diary Room: “Making out like we’re having this bloody love affair. It’s disrespectful and so not like that at all. I’ve made such a good friend in James C. As of this moment until we leave and until I die, I am not speaking to that woman again.
“She is vile, horrible, nasty; the vilest woman I’ve ever known, met or wish to meet. She’s the most fake, horrible woman.”
Before that point, there were several confrontations between the two women in the house that were shown on air, but things really kicked off when Coleen was crowned the winner, and Kim started her tirade against Coleen in a series of interviews.
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Kim told the Evening Standard after Coleen’s win was announced: “How that woman won, when Jedward were sitting there, I have no idea.
Kim had a bust up about Coleen on This Morning(Image: Rex Features)
“Public, I don’t know how you could let that boring fag ash Lil (win), with what I now know to be a rotten mouth. She shouldn’t have won that show … I’m a bit tired of all these people on Loose Women winning … It was wrong that she won. She was not entertaining and I was disappointed.
“Coleen was running with the foxes and hunting with the hounds. What a shocking woman.”
Kim then appeared on This Morning and Loose Women but always on days Coleen wasn’t booked to appear.
Kim infamously stormed off the set(Image: REX/Shutterstock)
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After avoiding each other, Kim was invited onto Loose Women to try and salvage their relationship.
Kim was instantly on edge and name-called dozens of times, calling Coleen everything from “lying trash” to “two-faced,” while Coleen called her “antagonistic” and claimed she was always edging for a fight.
The presenter also said she only went on Loose Women because she had been paid to do so, before revealing it was her “brutal childhood” which made her Big Brother experience so terrible, as it reminded her of the ridicule she received as a child.
The meeting went from bad to worse ending in Kim breaking down in tears and calling Coleen “lying trash” before storming off set.
At one point Linda Robson had put a comforting arm around Kim who slapped her away and said: “Don’t be two-faced.” Linda branded Coleen a “con artist” before leaving the studio.
The show then went to a break, after which Coleen revealed that Kim was with members of the backstage team and that they hadn’t wanted the interview to end like that. Linda remarked: “I’m shaking – it was like the Jeremy Kyle show!”
Viewers at home were horrified. The clash clocked up 3,297 Ofcom complaints, with viewers claiming to be offended by the treatment of Kim by Coleen and the panelists.
A spokeswoman for Loose Women said at the time: “‘Kim agreed to come onto the panel today at the invitation of the producers on the understanding it was for a reconciliation with Coleen. Kim becoming upset was never the intention and the panel did endeavour to comfort her. She was offered counselling after the show, which she declined.”
