THE publishers of a book in which a TV star revealed she had buried her stillborn baby in a Liverpool park have said they had checked with legal experts before releasing the autobiography.
Police yesterday said they were "assessing" the situation after How Clean is Your House presenter Kim Woodburn admitted she had buried her stillborn baby boy in a park near her Liverpool flat in the 1960s.
Woodburn has become a household name in Channel 4's reality show.
Woodburn made the revelation in her autobiography, which is being serialised in a Sunday newspaper.
A spokeswoman for Merseyside police said: "We will decide what action is necessary in due course."
She added that no formal investigation had been launched.
Woodburn, who is now married to her second husband, had been living in a flat on Brompton Avenue, Sefton Park.
She says she gave birth to the baby boy in February, 1966 in her flat when she was only five months pregnant, and just a month after she had split up with the child's father.
The following day, she claimed she went to a nearby park and dug a hole with a spoon and buried the baby wrapped in a tea towel.
Last night a spokeswoman for publishers Hodder and Stoughton said: "The book was read by a legal team before being published.
"They would not have gone ahead if they thought there would be any legal issues."
After the death of her baby, she changed her name from Pat to the first name of her favourite actress, Kim Novak, and moved house.
She became a beautician and model, and is now married to Peter, a retired policeman.
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