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June Brown
Topic Started: 16 Sep 2015, 21:27 (3,241 Views)
Leon
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http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/605672/EastEnders-Dot-Branning-Cotton-June-Brown-Loose-Women-exit-Nick-Cotton

Honest to God, she sounds so ungrateful and rude in that interview. I wouldn't care if she left.
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She doesn't seem to realise how lucky she actually is to be employed at her age and have a sizeable wage. It doesn't help that Dot has kind of become a relic more than a character over the years. The Nick story in reality wasn't really about Dot it was about a man who paid the price for his life choices.
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June is always moaning about lack of storylines/screentime but she should be very lucky that her bosses still want her on the show. They don't want to use June a lot because of her age. Her health is more important.
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Has there ever been a time where she didn't seem to be completely ungrateful towards the show? Age isn't an excuse, nor status. If a younger actor said such rude things about the show, we would call for them to be axed, and chances are, they would be.

I understand Dot's worth to the show. Close to an original. A face everyone knows. But seriously, she will be on a ridiculously inflated wage, and to be frank, with minimal talent to back it up. After all these years, you'd think she'd have realised how lucky she really is.

"I loved it in the Olden Days because you talked more. There’s more action now. You know, we would do scenes in the Rovers of me, Bet and Doris Speed with a cup of coffee each before we opened the pub, talking about absolute rubbish. But it was something, and it was what people do." - Betty Driver
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She simply stated she'd like more screen time as keeping busy is good for her. She didn't slate the show. I don't get why this interview is such a big deal.
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I've just watched Loose Women on ITV Player which is where all of this article comes from. She didn't have any bad words for EastEnders and it is obvious she is losing her hearing. For 88 years old she is remarkable and why shouldn't she ask for more to do.

As she stated with more to do it keeps her brain active.

The only reason she will bow out is if her health takes a turn or a producer decides to axe her role.

Long may she continue to work on EE IMO?
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When asked if she had any plans to leave in a black taxi, she sipped from her drink and seemed to sarcastically pretend that she didn't hear the question, to which she and everybody else laughed. And she was saying how difficult she is finding it not to "open her big mouth", i.e. say something bad about the show.
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I think June should be grateful she is still employed at her age.  She will be on a high wage, paid by the licence fee payers and I personally think Elstree are probably concerned about her health.  A capable actress but imo over rated.  I never take anything too serious June says, as she is a little Eccentric.
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Leon
16 Sep 2015, 22:50
When asked if she had any plans to leave in a black taxi, she sipped from her drink and seemed to sarcastically pretend that she didn't hear the question, to which she and everybody else laughed. And she was saying how difficult she is finding it not to "open her big mouth", i.e. say something bad about the show.
She said she didn't want to open her big mouth in regards to getting used more. Saying you wish you were used more isn't slagging off the show at all.

June's always been a funny woman so drinking from her straw like that just seemed to be an attempt to make the audience laugh.

She's not going to threaten to quit and ask for more scenes is she? If she was going to quit she wouldn't be wanting to do more.
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Good heavens, is the woman not entitled to an opinion?
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This is the actress who left the show, initially, in protest of the way TPTB dispensed with Peter Dean. She returned years later. Since then, she hasn't lost the opportunity to complain about the show in some way. She does come across as being ungrateful, and she's on a bloody good wage, so when she says she has to work because she's afraid of "being poor," it falls a bit flat and comes across as a euphemism for greed.

This is also an actress who's been known to keep cast and crew waiting for a day if something in a scene or dialogue doesn't go quite right for her. Didn't John Bardon lose his rag with her during the filming of the illegal immigrant baby Dot found because she was refusing to do a scene the way the director wanted?

To be honest, I haven't missed Dot at all since she's been away. The actress has macular degeneration, which is a condition some very elderly people get with their eyesight, and does, eventually, result in blindness. Also, people think Dot is an original character. She's not, but her son was.
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June Brown always seems self entitled to me.

Like the time she suggested that elderly people should be above the smoking ban. Yeah that makes perfect sense.

Awful acting skills.
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I wonder how many of you will still be even willing to work at aged 88?

June has always been slightly eccentric and there is nothing wrong with wanting to do more and voicing an opinion on the show. She was hardly slagging it off.

She has admitted her hearing isn't as good as it was (again how many 88 year olds have perfect hearing?) and her eye sight is failing, but good on her for wanting to keep working I say.
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DirtyDen
16 Sep 2015, 23:32
I wonder how many of you will still be even willing to work at aged 88?

June has always been slightly eccentric and there is nothing wrong with wanting to do more and voicing an opinion on the show. She was hardly slagging it off.

She has admitted her hearing isn't as good as it was (again how many 88 year olds have perfect hearing?) and her eye sight is failing, but good on her for wanting to keep working I say.
I'll be long gone by about 40 but most of my generation will be working until past 90 to pay for a pension for the previous generation in return for a worse pension themselves. And they will be told to consider themselves lucky they have even got that. While previous generations will be sat on decks of cruise ships in their 70s at the latest moaning about how crummy their pension is.
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I would be so happy if it was announced that she was leaving. Adios to the head bobbing ham.
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BigApe
16 Sep 2015, 23:38
DirtyDen
16 Sep 2015, 23:32
I wonder how many of you will still be even willing to work at aged 88?

June has always been slightly eccentric and there is nothing wrong with wanting to do more and voicing an opinion on the show. She was hardly slagging it off.

She has admitted her hearing isn't as good as it was (again how many 88 year olds have perfect hearing?) and her eye sight is failing, but good on her for wanting to keep working I say.
I'll be long gone by about 40 but most of my generation will be working until past 90 to pay for a pension for the previous generation in return for a worse pension themselves. And they will be told to consider themselves lucky they have even got that. While previous generations will be sat on decks of cruise ships in their 70s at the latest moaning about how crummy their pension is.
so basically "your generation" know this is probably going to happen to them, so why dont they get off their butts and do something about it?
By working and sacrificing a few things earlier in life, you will get a decent retirement.
Dont tell me it cant be done, because it can. No country (apart from Greece) is going to let themselves go broke by making things too burdensome. That is not good business.
Just livin' in perfect New Zealand!
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This is also the same June Brown, who complained a few years ago, when TPTB lessened her screentime because, in her words, she was "too expensive" for the BBC. In other words, they couldn't justify her large salary when the licence fee was frozen.
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Fuck June. He attitude before and after the cameras were rolling in The Graham Norton Show was horrible. It's not like she has any talent anyway?
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Coincidentally I watched her acceptance speech for her lifetime achievement award yesterday and she even threw a dig in there - "I've been blessed with SOME good writers". She just can't help herself, the impression I get is that she definitely thinks she's bigger than the show and should have a major say in how it's run. Compare her to the humble Adam Woodyatt and she looks very unprofessional. She says she needs to keep working because she can't afford not to - she should make her daughter get a real job and stop paying her to be her PA.
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17 Sep 2015, 10:11
Coincidentally I watched her acceptance speech for her lifetime achievement award yesterday and she even threw a dig in there - "I've been blessed with SOME good writers". She just can't help herself, the impression I get is that she definitely thinks she's bigger than the show and should have a major say in how it's run. Compare her to the humble Adam Woodyatt and she looks very unprofessional. She says she needs to keep working because she can't afford not to - she should make her daughter get a real job and stop paying her to be her PA.
She employs her daughter as she has many many commitments and can't manage it by herself. I would think it is cheaper to employ her daughter and keep her earnings within the family than paying an agent!

Most celebrities use their agents to manage their affairs, she uses her daughter. Makes sense to me!
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