The Conservative MP is famous for her celibacy and outspoken views on homosexuals, abortion and recreational drugs, opinions at odds with The Guardian's left-of-centre readership.
A spokeswoman for the paper said today that the decision to end the column was by "mutual agreement" and it was only intended to be a short-term proposition all along.
The Guardian said that Widdecombe will not disappear altogether from its pages and will instead write occasional features for the paper.
A Guardian editorial source quoted in The Independent today said: "It basically didn't work and we decided to put the whole thing out of its misery before it became an embarrassment."
Widdecombe seems to be taking the decision lightly. She told The Independent: "We thought it had run out of steam. It was never designed to last forever, there are only so many times you can tell people to buck up."
Widdecombe's controversial views returned to headlines recently with the election of Michael Howard as Tory leader, when her 1997 statement, that there was "something of the night" about him, was revisited. Howard is said to have taken the comments on the chin at the time.
Widdecombe is not the only MP to be hired by a publication not normally assocated with them. Last week, it emerged that former Labour government minister Mo Mowlam had taken up a similar role on lads' mag Zoo, dishing out sex advice to the magazine's teenage readership.
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