Karen Marie Danczuk (née Burke) from Middleton, Rochdale[1] is a British former local councillor for Kingsway, Rochdale metro.
[2] She came to prominence as the wife of Simon Danczuk, who was Member of Parliament for the Rochdale constituency from 2010 to 2017.
[6] In July 2015, he said that he had been suffering from depression caused by his campaigning work on child sexual abuse and that this had affected their marriage.
[7][8] Danczuk took part in 2015 in the TV programme, NHS in Crisis: Live Debate and was a participant in 2016's Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
[10] She is a campaigner for victims of sexual abuse, and a patron for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.