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She's from my side.
Shame she does not want to know your side of the family. To me, family is very important, even those not so close.
It's because her father, who is my relative, left her mother for another woman and she blames her father for everything.
No reason not to speak to ALL other members of that side of the family. Well, Mr p, it is her loss :)
Thanks, Perdy. I agree. :)
I think Ms Windsor is a little too big for her boots (if thats possible for a poison dwarf) She isnt as important as she thinks she is. The woman is a legend in her own mind
Controller of BBC drama production John Yorke has predicted that Barbara Windsor's departure from EastEnders could be an opportunity to move the soap forward.
The TV boss, who was the Walford show's executive producer between 2000 and 2002, confirmed that he is looking on the bright side following Windsor's decision to leave her role as Peggy Mitchell.
Windsor announced last October that she is to depart the programme after 15 years as Peggy. She will film her final scenes later this year.
Yorke told Walford Web: "It's very sad, but I've seen enough exits now to know that if you get it right, they're great opportunities.
"I remember being terrified when Ross Kemp left, but it actually gave us carte blanche to reinvent the show."
Walford actor Derek Martin (Charlie Slater) recently said that EastEnders will be able to "go on" without Windsor's iconic character.
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Phew.. I thought it was going to end if she leftQuote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
Well we both know better now, Siobhan, don't we.
There is only one person whose departure would leave Eastenders with nowhere to go and almost certain closure and that is, of course, Winston.
What a load of old twaddle. No TV soap revolves around one person even if that person may think so themselves. Of course EE will carry on without the Poison Dwarf and probably become better for her departure. EE does not revolve around the odious Peggy Mitchell or her thugs of sons and the ever growing Mitchell clan.
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The world and all that is in it revolves around him.. he should be in every soapQuote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
Am I the only one thats going to miss her
Looks like it :p
Aww maybe its just cos to me she is eastenders! and the fact Ive grown up with her being on EE and was there when I first started watching :D
Newcomer!:DQuote:
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No, you're not Abbie - I'll miss her too. I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel that way :DQuote:
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i will kinda miss her but i don't think she is Eastenders... Den and Angie I thought would never be replaced but they were...Quote:
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She is only a relative newcomer to Eastenders although with the opinion she has of herself and the fact she always accepts the awards for the show you could be forgiven for thinking Eastenders was the Barbara Windsor Show. EE was there before her and will still be there after she hangs up her wig and platform shoes. Im with Shiv in thinking that Den (pre webcam and return from the grave days) and Angie epitomise Eastenders. Much better than the Mitchell FairmillyQuote:
Originally Posted by Abbie
Does she put herself forward to accept the awards, though, or do the rest of EE encourage her to do so. I'm not so sure that she thinks of herself as the Queen Bee. She doesn't come across that way to me, from what I've seen of her in interviews.
EastEnders actress Barbara Windsor has said that she is not yet thinking about her forthcoming departure from the soap.
The 72-year-old announced that she had decided to quit her role as Peggy Mitchell last October. She will be seen on screen for the final time later this year.
Speaking about her exit, Windsor told Holy Soap: "I'm not even thinking about it. I get my scripts and I do them, and I've got about five, six, months yet, so it's quite a time really."
The soap star went on to dismiss suggestions that she is already arranging to return to the programme in 2012.
She commented: "Oh, I don't know about that. I mean these stories come out. No, I shall be leaving in July, but I don't know."
Windsor also said that she does not know how Peggy will bow out, insisting that the drama's producers are keeping her final storyline under wraps for the time being.
Eastenders legend Barbara Windsor has told how she is dreading filming her final scenes as Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell.
In her first interview since breaking the news of her departure, Barbara told The People: "It is going to be emotional on my last day. I go in July and it will be hard.
"I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind. She's such a wonderful character to play. But at least I'm still being called an ageing sex symbol and a national treasure. I love that." The hit BBC1 soap marked its 25th anniversary last month with a live episode which revealed Stacey Slater (actress Lacey Turner) as the killer of Barbara's on-screen husband Archie (Larry Lamb). But although Barbara has played the head of the Mitchell clan for 16 years, she says producers are still keeping her guessing whether unlucky-in-love Peggy will be killed off or ride into the sunset with a new fella.
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Barbara, 72, said: "We are a close-knit family on EastEnders but they have not told me how my character will be leaving.
"You know what soaps are like. They never tell you. So I guess you will have to wait and see. They ain't told me!" Party What is certain is that Barbara will have a traditional cockney knees-up on set to mark her farewell. She said: "You know me, I will have a big party."
Barbara joined the show in 1994 and picked up a lifetime achievement award at the British Soap Awards last year.
The star, who has done everything from West End musicals to Carry On films, began acting at just 13. She said: "I have had a fantastic career. I have been in the business 60 years this year and I love it now the same as when I started. I was at the Laurence Olivier Awards in London last week and it inspired me. Theatre is the best training you can get."
Now one of the best known faces on TV, she will hold fond memories of playing mum to hardmen Grant and Phil (Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden).
She said: "EastEnders has been wonderful to me. I've had the pleasure of working with a marvellous cast and crew. I have made many lasting good friends."
Barbara, who was made an MBE in 1999, even got to show the Queen around the Albert Square set in November 2001. She said: "That honour is something that will stay with me forever."
As for the near future, she will be spending more time with hubby Scott Mitchell, 46.
Ignoring the 26-year age gap, the irrepressible Babs giggled: "I suppose, when all's said and done, I should spend a bit more time with my old man - as he's not getting any younger!"
Nor are you, dear!Quote:
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FFS she has the cheek to call her toyboy an old man
She was joking about him being so much younger than her
Barbara Windsor is readying herself for the day that she has to film her last scene as Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell.
The British legend, who announced last October that she is leaving the BBC One soap, told The People that her last day will be an emotional experience that she is not looking forward to.
Windsor, 72, said: "I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind. She's such a wonderful character to play. But at least I'm still being called an ageing sex symbol and a national treasure. I love that."
As to whether the head of the Mitchell clan will be killed off, Windsor said she remains in the dark. "You know what soaps are like. They never tell you. So I guess you will have to wait and see. They ain't told me!" she said.
Windsor, who joined the show in 1994, said the only thing that she knows for certain is that she will throw a "big party" to mark the event.
"EastEnders has been wonderful to me. I've had the pleasure of working with a marvellous cast and crew. I have made many lasting good friends," she said.
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EastEnders' series story producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins has revealed that Peggy Mitchell's final storyline will be "epic and moving".
The Albert Square icon will make her final Walford appearance later this year following Barbara Windsor's decision to quit the role.
Plans for Peggy's exit plot have now been finalised and her swan song episodes are expected to be penned by the BBC soap's lead writer and series consultant Simon Ashdown.
Speaking to Walford Web, Treadwell-Collins confirmed: "We've storylined Barbara's exit and that's going to be epic and moving - Simon's already chomping at the bit to write those episodes."
Meanwhile, on the impact that Peggy's departure will have, he commented: "It's a huge loss, but the show - and the Mitchells - will keep going. We've actually got an amazing story for the Mitchells over the next year or so. And maybe even some joy for Ronnie! It's time to give the girl a break."
Windsor admitted last month that she will be "so sad" to leave Peggy behind.
Epic and moving indeed. Still it makes a change from Sensation, Explosive and sure to Rock the Square
epic and moving sound like my bowels first thing in the morning
Ronnie getting preggers maybe??
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Originally Posted by Siobhan
Barbara Windsor would be a great cure for constipation
Barbara Windsor has admitted that she still does not know how she will be written out of EastEnders.
The actress will film her final scenes as Peggy Mitchell later this summer, and producers have teased that there is an "epic and moving" final storyline planned for her character.
However, speaking at the BAFTA TV Awards, the 72-year-old confessed that she does not want an early preview of her last ever scripts and has no idea what is in store.
Windsor told Holy Soap: "I don't know and I didn't want to. I said I didn't want to see them, I don't want to know - just give them to me like you always give them to me, like they're any ordinary episode."
The star confirmed that there are "about six weeks" left before she bows out of Albert Square for good.
Of her plans to keep watching the soap, she added: "It will be so, so brilliant. I only want this show to be great. I've loved it for 16 years."
THE Mitchell girls shared a hug yesterday as Barbara Windsor said goodbye to Albert Square.
The EastEnders legend, 72, brought tears to her fellow cast members' eyes as she filmed her final scenes as Peggy.
She then hugged screen family Roxie (Rita Simons), Glenda (Glynis Barber) and Ronnie (Sam Womack).
Rita said: "She is my honorary real-life auntie."
June Brown (Dot), added: "I shall miss her enormously."
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I bet they were all jumping for joy when she left. :D
EastEnders star Steve McFadden has spoken about Barbara Windsor's (Peggy Mitchell's) departure from the soap.
McFadden, who plays Windsor's on-screen son Phil Mitchell, revealed that Windsor will leave the show on a high as part of a major storyline.
He told The Mirror: "I am pleased for Barbara because she has worked hard and deserves this part of her life. She is a canny bird and she has played a blinder because she is going out on a massive high.
"She is going to be involved in one of the biggest and best storylines ever. So she is going out on the top of her game."
He also talked about how the cast celebrated her leaving the show, saying: "We had a barbecue. There was no champagne as Barbara doesn't drink so I got her Dover sole. I didn't want her eating any dodgy fish fingers."
Peggy Mitchell's final EastEnders episode will feature a new alternative version of the soap's theme tune.
The special track is a reworking of the BBC show's long-standing alternative tune 'Julia's Theme', which traditionally airs at the end of episodes featuring intense emotion or drama.
'Peggy's Theme' has been created by Simon May, who composed the original EastEnders theme in 1984 and is also known for creating the theme tunes for several other shows, including Howards' Way and Eldorado.
The extent to which the new tune will differ from 'Julia's Theme' - recognisable for a slow piano build-up leading into the end credits - is currently unclear.
A BBC spokesperson today confirmed that Peggy's final episode will feature the special theme. However, with details of the matriarch's final moments in Albert Square being kept closely under wraps, further information has not been disclosed.
Barbara Windsor, who plays Peggy, announced her decision to leave EastEnders last October. Her last episode is due to air next month.
Meanwhile, it has also been confirmed that 'Peggy's Theme' will be the lead track on compilation album The Simon May Collection, which is to be released on September 13.
When is her last episode on screen I thought you might know Alan seeing as you as big fan of hers :p
I dont like it when they change 'Julia's theme' it makes Eastenders. When Kat and Alfie got together, after the Andy wedding saga. When Cindy ran away with the children to France. When Kathy left to South Africa. Ahhh brings back emotional memories.
I think it's quite fitting for Peggy to have her own theme tune.