Celeb Cooking School Kim Woodburn's harsh life – from brutal childhood to Queen of Clean

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Kim Woodburn rose to fame in the UK for her cleaning skills in How Clean Is Your House, which ran from 2003 to 2009.Since then, she continues to stay relevant through numerous appearances in reality TV and daytime TV appearances.Her career didn’t start on the small screen though, as she was originally a model living in Liverpool.The 80-year-old star is now appearing in Channel 4’s Celeb Cooking Show, which descended into chaos in the latest episode.Not only was most of the food dreadful, but top chef Giorgio Locatelli was forced to bat off advances from Kim throughout the episode.She has never been one to hold back and she has a unique career in television to prove it.Kim, born Patrica Mary Woodburn, found fame through her show How Clean Is Your House, earning her the nickname the Queen of Clean.The TV personality was 61 when the show skyrocketed in popularity.The star has been married to Peter Woodburn since 1979, after a previously marriage to a policeman in the early 70s.She fought her way into showbiz, having started her career as a social worker.Kim also worked in retail, along with modelling.In 2009, she made an appearance on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and achieved second place for the season.She even made an appearance on the last season of Celebrity Big Brother in 2017, before it was confirmed to be returning on ITV.Kim had a difficult childhood as she claimed she was neglected and beaten by her parents throughout her formative years.She wrote about these abhorrent times in her 2006 autobiography Unbeaten: The Story of My Brutal Childhood.This book even led to the police visiting her home to discuss the allegations inside.In it, she revealed that at the age of 23, Kim went into labour three months too.