dead June Brown

[Slackhurst Broadcasting 374]

18 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

 

DL strapline has to be Brown Bread

"June Brown's body is a-lying in its grave, or will be shortly."

[TQR 14,384]

8 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

 

RIP June Brown - smoked for over 70 years. 

Blimey, I might start again.

[Lafaucheuse 4,043]

"Today has been a day dropped out of June into April." Lucy Maud Montgomery 

[TQR 14,384]

28 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

DL strapline has to be Brown Bread

Or ‘Gone But Not For Cotton’.

[msc 18,434]

5 minutes ago, TQR said:

Or ‘Gone But Not For Cotton’.

 

After the year dot?

 

(Btw you know someone's a big name when you get ten different people texting you to tell you they'd died.)

[drunkasaskunk 194]

Dot dashed off

 

[Sean 6,309]

That's a really sad one.Parents were regular Eastenders watchers when I was growing up.

[JR976evil 905]

She had the good sense to quit EE while she still had a bit of time left 

[The Immortal 634]

So they will kill off Dot Cotton now, I believe.

[Grimgrass 514]

Reunited.

 

(Worth noting all three were DL hits).

[time 8,586]

Is this the Dot Cotton thread?

 

I was an intermittent EE viewer, but what got me started watching regularly was Charlie Cotton's funeral clashing with Rickaaaay & Sam's wedding.

 

[Styx&Stones 3]

1 hour ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Well, I don't think any of the above posts stating her death are clear enough. So.. dead 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-june-brown-dead-iconic-26628995.amp#scso=_SuNKYuz7IOG68gL-h4zYCA152:0

 

DL strapline has to be Brown Bread

Maybe ‘June up in Smoke’

….also recall a Jethro gag from the early noughties ‘Gone but not for Cotton’

[TQR 14,384]

3 minutes ago, Styx&Stones said:

‘Gone but not for Cotton’

 

1 hour ago, TQR said:

Or ‘Gone But Not For Cotton’.

 

[ladyfiona 2,572]

I have stopped watching Eastenders reguarly now but what I do remember is that June filmed one whole episode in one scene I believe many years ago.

 

Very talented actress.

 

RIP.

[Youth in Asia 1,086]

Oh great, my second dropped pick to go in 1 week

[Youth in Asia 1,086]

1 hour ago, TheSpinosaurus said:

So they will kill off Dot Cotton now, I believe.

 

No, she's gone on a long holiday to Spain. They'll revive the character with an actress that looks similar next year.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

5 hours ago, TheSpinosaurus said:

So they will kill off Dot Cotton now, I believe.

Really?

I thought they may keep her in it for another 20 years.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,337]

2 hours ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

Really?

I thought they may keep her in it for another 20 years.

Lol! When Mike Reid died suddenly in 2007  they waited until a year later in 2008 to kill of his character Frank Butcher after consultation with his family and being sensitive to their feelings. 

I guess it will depend what Junes family say but I could imagine it being similar situation were it takes the best part of a year roughly to kill the character off.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

21 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

Lol! When Mike Reid died suddenly in 2007  they waited until a year later in 2008 to kill of his character Frank Butcher after consultation with his family and being sensitive to their feelings. 

I guess it will depend what Junes family say but I could imagine it being similar situation were it takes the best part of a year roughly to kill the character off.

Yeah, but, re read their post that I replied to.

He said, quote, 'So they will kill off Dot Cotton now, I believe'.

He/She BELIEVES???

What, like they aren't quite sure that the Beeb will?

Blimey, they could still be rolling out her skeleton, fag ( nowt to do with sex, you perv  ) sticking out of her skeletal gob while somebody throws their voice to make it look like she is saying ' Oh, er, I say' etc etc. 

This will be out of desperation by the BBC to get the viewing figures off of the floor that they currently lay upon.

Next it will be 'Pete Beal' has risen from the grave, I believe.

 

[MrWonderful 480]

The floodgates have opened, as this is the third death on my top 50 list in the past week.  This was certainly a sensible pick by the committee, and one I couldn't ignore as well.  RIP.  

[Bibliogryphon 9,569]

I thought June was fantastic as Dot Cotton and probably much better than the soap deserved. The Dot and Ethel episode is still a highlight from the early days. However she was brilliantly cast as Nanny Slagg in the BBC adaptation of Gormanghast where she played the character with indulgence, fragility but also cunning determination being one of the few that saw through Steerpike.

 

If you haven't seen it, it is worth chasing down not only for June but John Sessions, Christopher Lee, Fiona Shaw and Spike Milligan's final role

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,879]

17 hours ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

Yeah, but, re read their post that I replied to.

He said, quote, 'So they will kill off Dot Cotton now, I believe'.

He/She BELIEVES???

What, like they aren't quite sure that the Beeb will?

Blimey, they could still be rolling out her skeleton, fag ( nowt to do with sex, you perv  ) sticking out of her skeletal gob while somebody throws their voice to make it look like she is saying ' Oh, er, I say' etc etc. 

This will be out of desperation by the BBC to get the viewing figures off of the floor that they currently lay upon.

Next it will be 'Pete Beal' has risen from the grave, I believe.

 

 

 

Well that or they'll do a Dallas and have Pete stepping out of the shower and the last 30 years or so of epsiodes have all been a dream 

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

17 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

 

 

Well that or they'll do a Dallas and have Pete stepping out of the shower and the last 30 years or so of epsiodes have all been a dream 

It could only improve the show.

[Whitehouse 872]

Absolutely no clue who she is....

[Sean 6,309]

3 minutes ago, Whitehouse said:

Absolutely no clue who she is....

Oooh I SAY