EastEnders - The future of Dot Cotton (June Brown)
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I love Dot, legend in my eyes but recently I've been thinking, June is 87 and I do wonder how long she will stay on for. It will be so painful to watch when she leaves though but how long can we see her on screen till? I don't want June to be overworked.
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As June is 87 years of age it is unlikely she will ever work full time hours again due to her age and obviously in the coming years depending on June's health and her advancing years it is likely she will appear less and less. It is amazing she is still working so hard at almost 90 years of age, my Grandma is the same age as June and i couldn't imagine her being able to cope with the schedule and learning lines like June does.
June Brown by all intents and purposes is still in good health for her age but according to an article i read about June on the Daily Mail website this week she has lost a stone and half in the last year due to the stress of writing her Autobiography since the year Dot and she has Pre-Diabetes and had to have an operation on her eye last Christmas, she also around that time had a fall in her Bathroom and broke a bone in her hand and she still hasn't fully recovered from it. The signs are obviously there that she is getting older and her health may be slowly declining which isn't surprising considering she is nearly 90 years of age. June just needs to be careful because although we all love her as Dot her health and well being are far more important than EastEnders.
As noted above. Frank never died on screen but his funeral was perfect and perhaps the best EE ever did. When the time comes EE and the BBC will honour June in the same way as they did Mike Reid.
I agree with you about the Frank Butcher funeral episodes they were superb and a fitting tribute to the late Mike Reid, Frank deserved a great send of as he was a terrific character and a true one off. Frank Butcher still remains one of my all time favourite soap characters.
And mine. Pat and Frank were the best yo-yo couple of all time:D
There are lots of soap actors who've never quit and whose characters died with them, like Betty Driver in Coronation Street.
Violet Carson left Corrie in 1980 due to ill health but never officially quit and Ena Sharples was considered an active character till she died in 1983.
Those characters are well remembered despite having no big exit storyline.
I don't know why people always go on about this, June asks for the work! She's EXTREMELY fit and healthy for her age! She has said she wants to go in real life before she goes in EastEnders, and she will probably never retire, we could see her on screen for another 10 years, who knows... Peggy mitchell will probably be back by then lol, we'd still have pat butcher if it weren't for that dick Bryan kirkwood.
They were trying to get Violet Carson back in Corrie in 1982/1983, however her ill health prevented this and she later died.
Wouldn't it have been better for them to have had proper exits then simply vanishing?
I agree with you. If she wants to stay, she should.
This post. June Brown can decide whatever she wants to do.
They hoped she would come back to Granada Studios in 1982 to see The Queen and Prince Philip open the new set but she just wasn't able for it.