Invite Queen of Clear Kim Woodburn to your own home for a cuppa at your peril as spring clear season winds down.

I merely wouldn’t go to a home that was soiled,” she admits proper off the bat. “I’d make each excuse underneath the solar.”

“I don’t go to many individuals’s homes — I’m fairly a homey individual. If it was a pricey pal, if I went spherical and thought, ‘Oh, this home is soiled’, I’d in all probability see them exterior — however I wouldn’t go to the home once more. I couldn’t bear it actually, to be trustworthy with you.”

Former housekeeper Kim unexpectedly discovered fame at 61 as tv’s most glamorous grime-buster alongside Aggie Mackenzie on Channel four actuality collection How Clear is Your Home? in 2003.

The shock hit ran for six seasons because the forensic duo remodeled a few of Britain’s grubbiest properties from grot to not, even sharing their old style cleansing hacks with Oprah Winfrey at the height of their success.

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Kim Woodburn discovered fame alongside Aggie MacKenzie on How Clear is Your Home?

However the late-blooming tv star insists she’s not as unforgiving of “mucky pups”, as she memorably branded the present’s contributors, as followers might imagine.

“I’m a fanatical cleaner,” says Kim, who turned 80 in March. “I’ve at all times been like that. I believe I bought it from my grandmother — she cleaned and cleaned.

“I believe a clear home is a contented home, however all of us dwell in several circumstances. If you’re a mum with just a few kids, I don’t assume there ever comes a time when you can say, ‘Each a part of my home is spotless’ — you’ve bought kids, and youngsters are entitled to play and mess issues up.

How Clear is Your Home? was an exquisite present and I attempted to make it humorous, as a result of I mentioned to the bosses after I bought the job, ‘Look, I can’t go into these individuals’s homes and say ‘you’re soiled’ — I’ve bought to camp it up and get my level throughout, however be good’. So I’d say, ‘My love, you’re a bit mucky, pricey, aren’t you? Have you bought a boyfriend?’ I discovered if you joked it by way of they have been very open, and you bought a great present out of them.”

No such love is misplaced between the 2 stars, who reportedly haven’t spoken because the cult present resulted in 2009, with Kim pouring chilly water on the thought of a reboot.

“I’ve not been supplied it,” she solutions actually. “However would I do one other one? Oh, I don’t know — I’m 80.

“Of all of the stuff I’ve executed on telly, I say this not being big-headed, however I believe it was probably the greatest cleansing reveals ever. It was a rip-roaring success. It offered to 30 nations and I imagine it’s on in some nations now. I do know if I’m going on vacation to Spain or America, [it’s] ‘Hey, Kim – I nonetheless watch your present’. So it’s on someplace.

“Everyone remembers it; it’s ‘When’s it coming again?’ I don’t know. I’ve made just a few bob, fortunately married, I’ve bought some smashing folks that write me pretty letters — I’m fairly blissful as I’m’.”

Homosexual icon Kim is, in any case, busy after becoming a member of forces with Dealz to launch a pocket-friendly vary of cleansing merchandise together with a kitchen cleaner, window and glass cleaner and, of course, flamboyant rubber gloves.

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Kim along with her husband Peter

Recalling a time earlier than robotic vacuum cleaners and steam mops, she reckons in the present day’s fellow home goddesses and gods have by no means had it simpler.

“Individuals make such a fuss about housekeeping and look at what we’ve bought at our fingertips,” says the Hampshire native, who recounted the story of her harsh upbringing in 2011 autobiography Unbeaten. “With all these mod cons now we have it really easy.

“Once I was a child, we by no means owned a vacuum cleaner, we had no washer. We had a big bar of Fairy inexperienced cleaning soap; we’d be over the kitchen sink scrubbing all the pieces, wringing it out my hand.

“I’ve at all times thought if you clear as you go, and you throw as you go, it doesn’t half preserve the muck down. What I do is earlier than I’m going to mattress I’ll plump the cushions on the couch, I’ll throw the newspapers that I’ve learn within the bin. Usually it’s three minutes — flip right here, flip there.

“If you let it construct up you’re your individual worst enemy as a result of it’s not going away.”

Even the doyenne of dusting has a family chore she hates although, she admits: “I don’t like making beds.

“Once I change my sheets, I’m going, ‘Oh, right here we go!’ I hate doing the cover cowl, however all of us have a pet hate.”

  • Kim Woodburn’s Authentic Cleansing Queen vary of merchandise is offered from Dealz shops nationwide now, priced from 1.50

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