The residents of Albert Sq. will say their ultimate farewells to Dot Cotton in a particular episode honouring the loss of life of EastEnders stalwart June Brown, the BBC have mentioned.
Brown turned a cultural fixture for her long-running flip because the inimitable Dot Branning – finest generally known as Dot Cotton, the character’s earlier married identify – offering Walford with considered one of its best-loved and most memorable figures.
The actress, who performed the chain-smoking hypochondriac Dot for greater than 30 years, died at her residence on April 3 aged 95.
In a particular EastEnders episode airing this winter, Dot’s family and friends will come collectively to say their ultimate farewells at her funeral after information of her loss of life reaches Albert Sq..
The character is at present residing in Eire however as per Dot’s needs, her funeral might be held in Walford, along with her household and associates giving her the send-off she deserves, the BBC have mentioned.
Government producer Chris Clenshaw mentioned: “Everybody at EastEnders was actually heartbroken when June handed away earlier this yr and, for fairly some time, no-one might even take into consideration saying goodbye to Dot; an iconic character who will go down in tv historical past and be cherished without end.
“June was all the time adamant that she by no means needed Dot’s time to finish whereas she was nonetheless with us, however she additionally knew that EastEnders would rightly say their farewells to Dot when the time was proper.
“Sadly that point has come and we're decided to provide the viewers, who treasured Dot for therefore a few years, the becoming tribute that she so deeply deserves.
“So while will probably be a really, very unhappy day in Walford, we might be giving Dot the send-off that she and June would need and rightly deserve.”
Brown first set foot in Walford’s Albert Sq. in 1985 within the cleaning soap’s fortieth episode in a task that might come to outline her, taking a break between 1993 and 1997.
In 2008 she turned the primary EastEnders actress to hold a whole episode single-handed.
In it, Cotton dictated her life story to a cassette, so her husband might take heed to it in hospital following a stroke.
In December 2021 Brown was made an OBE within the New Yr Honours, as she was recognised for providers to drama and to charity.
She was beforehand made an MBE within the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2008 for providers to drama and charity.