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June Brown has to keep working because "pensions are so poor"
EastEnders star June Brown is losing her sight – but won’t stop working over fears of ‘being poor’
http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/18/eastenders-star-june-brown-is-losing-her-sight-but-wont-stop-working-over-fears-of-being-poor-5202468/
I have never laughed so hard in ages.
So she's saying that she never had the opportunity to plan ahead? I've got no sympathy for her and either she's been completely negligent regarding her own finances, has become addicted to that bingo site that is touted by her ex co-star, or the Beeb's wage cuts are really hitting her hard.
When there are pensioners who aren't even able to heat their homes in winter because of the pittance of a state pension they receive, her cries of poverty are completely laughable.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/18/eastenders-star-june-brown-is-losing-her-sight-but-wont-stop-working-over-fears-of-being-poor-5202468/
I have never laughed so hard in ages.
She added: ‘You might laugh at that and think “she’ll never be poor when she’s old” but I’ve not squirreled away lots of money.’
So she's saying that she never had the opportunity to plan ahead? I've got no sympathy for her and either she's been completely negligent regarding her own finances, has become addicted to that bingo site that is touted by her ex co-star, or the Beeb's wage cuts are really hitting her hard.
When there are pensioners who aren't even able to heat their homes in winter because of the pittance of a state pension they receive, her cries of poverty are completely laughable.
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plus london house prices are extortionate.
Is that per year?
Yet she hasn't 'squirrelled any away'
So she's spent it as she's earned it and now has to keep working at 88 when she could have retired in some comfort :kitty:
I suppose that could be taken into account. Maybe just the cost of living there takes most of her income. We don't know.
I agree. I'm guessing her version of being poor is not being able to afford luxuries.
ETA: Awful to be losing your sight, though, at any age. Won't be helping her mood one bit.
If I was paid £300000 a. Year I pretty sure I could put a decent amount away each year towards my pension.
Don't get me wrong - I actually do like June Brown but she does the same Albert Steptoe impression in everything she does! Money for old rope really.
I agree, I've only seen her in EastEnders, and episodes of The Sweeney, Minder, and Verdict, but her acting in them was virtually the same.
Having said that, I thought she was excellent when she did that entire episode of EastEnders on her own a few years back.
I think she works because she wants to as well.
It's hard to believe that she isn't better off than the average pensioner but perhaps she has a big family and financial commitments we don't know anything about.
They weren't extortionate 30+ years ago. Even if she'd bought in the 90s she could have comfortably afforded it on a fraction of her alleged 2006 income.
(and IMO I'd be surprised of someone of her vintage didn't buy a home a lot longer ago than that, in somewhere like Surrey)
She has five grown up children, so why would she have commitments to them if they're earning for themselves?
IIRC she lives in Surrey and has a nice large house which was seen in her episode of Who Do You Think You Are. Many pensioners have to choose between heating and eating, but I find it hard to believe she's one of them.
Where did her £300,000 a year salary go? **** and hair dye maybe.
Work probably keeps her going.;-)
I reckon the pension thing was probably a throw-away comment............and,of course, it has been pounced upon.
Does anyone seriously believe that she has money concerns?
I certainly don't.:p
Albert Steptoe crossed with Kenneth Williams to be accurate.
June isn't a silly woman, you don't know her situation at all.