Kim Woodburn’s household have criticised her How Clear Is Your Home? co-star Aggie MacKenzie for making ‘hurtful’ feedback within the wake of her demise.
The 83-year-old, who was broadly thought-about actuality TV royalty within the UK, handed away on Monday (16 June) following a brief sickness.
Tributes poured in for the previous Movie star Massive Brother contestant from followers and well-known faces alike, whereas her ex-cleaning sidekick Aggie MacKenzie additionally shared her condolences.
In an article for The Solar, she described Woodburn as ‘fierce, sophisticated, maddening — and unforgettable’, in addition to one of many ‘bravest folks’ she’d identified.
The pair first rose to fame by co-presenting the Channel 4 sequence How Clear Is Your Home?, which ran from 2003 to 2009. Nevertheless, in accordance with MacKenzie, that they had an enormous fallout a yr earlier than the present wrapped.
The Scottish TV star, 69, claimed that she and Woodburn ‘by no means actually spoke once more’ after they got here to blows in January 2008 whereas each performing because the Ugly Sisters in a pantomime of Cinderella in Brighton.
Explaining her alleged aspect of the story, MacKenzie told The Mirror: “Kim missed her cue [to go on stage], so I tapped her on the shoulder. We went on and did our scene, however after we got here out on the different aspect, Kim was livid.
“She pushed me. She really pushed me so arduous that I fell over. I misplaced it then. I actually actually misplaced it along with her. I used to be so livid as a result of I wasn’t anticipating to be pushed over like that.”
MacKenzie went on to say that her former co-star then refused to return to the stage after the interval earlier than ultimately ‘storming out of her dressing room on the final minute’ to fulfil her function.
“It was terrible,” MacKenzie continued. “She got here on, and it was so apparent that she had been crying. I knew there was folks within the viewers pondering to themselves, ‘what the f**okay is occurring right here’. It was psychological.
“And in spite of everything of that I used to be simply accomplished. It felt like she had type of crushed me. The disrespect was a lot and I knew that I could not really proceed being civil anymore with out an apology.”
Describing Woodburn as a ‘very complicated particular person’, the professional cleaner claimed that she’d by no means acquired an apology and she or he and Woodburn finally by no means buried the hatchet.
These candid remarks in regards to the alleged demise of their working relationship have not gone down effectively with Woodburn’s family members, who’ve since spoken out to say they’ve been left ‘very damage’ by MacKenzie’s feedback.
A buddy of Woodburn’s husband of 46 years, Peter Woodburn, rubbished MacKenzie’s claims and told The Solar: “Peter could be very damage and upset that Aggie has used Kim’s demise as a possibility to place herself again on the market in public area. Lots of issues that Aggie has mentioned are unfaithful. Recollections might fluctuate.”
The pal additional alleged that Woodburn had routinely been requested about her relationship with MacKenzie throughout interviews however ‘saved a dignified silence out of respect for the nice work they did collectively’.
“Kim’s family and friends discover it upsetting that she could not do the identical since Kim’s passing,” they added.
LADbible have contacted MacKenzie’s consultant for remark.
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