Barbara Windsor - Peggy Mitchell

[Perdita]

Barbara Windsor apparently wants to make a return to the West End stage when she leaves EastEnders next year.

The 72-year-old announced her forthcoming departure from the BBC One soap earlier this week, adding that she will be "so sad" to leave the character of Walford's landlady Peggy Mitchell after 15 years.

Windsor told the Sunday Mirror that she misses the theatre and hopes to tread the boards once more, having already stepped into the limelight for parts in Entertaining Mr Sloane and Guys And Dolls.

"I'd like to feel I could do theatre one more time," she said. "I reckon I've got one more pantomime in me!"

Details of Windsor's exit storyline from Albert Square have yet to emerge, with her final scenes due to be shown next year.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...nd-return.html

[parkerman]

I do have a shameful confession, I'm afraid. Barbara Windsor is a distant relation of mine....sorry, alan.

OMFG You're Mr Beetroot aren't you.

My secret is out. Damn!

[alan45]

"I'd like to feel I could do theatre one more time," she said. "I reckon I've got one more pantomime in me!"

Dont know what she is talking about. She has been acting like a pantomime Dame for years. Why change now

[alan45]

I do have a shameful confession, I'm afraid. Barbara Windsor is a distant relation of mine....sorry, alan.

They say you can pick your friends but not your relatives

[Perdita]

EastEnders star June Brown has said that she cried when she heard that Barbara Windsor had decided to leave the soap.

Windsor announced that she had decided to stop working on the show earlier this week, explaining that she wants to spend more time with her family.

Brown, who plays Dot Cotton on the programme, told The People: "It really feels like a death in the family. When Bar told me, we both broke into tears and gave each other a big hug.

"I really can't face life on the show without her. There will still be a few months with Bar around, but when she finally leaves it will be a very sad day for us all.

"She was more like a sister than a colleague. It will be strange walking into the Queen Vic and not seeing her beaming smile behind the bar."

Brown is currently starring in a West End production of Calendar Girls.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...-very-sad.html

I hope that she is not thinking of leaving the show herself

[parkerman]

I do have a shameful confession, I'm afraid. Barbara Windsor is a distant relation of mine....sorry, alan.

They say you can pick your friends but not your relatives

Thank you for being so understanding, alan.

[sindydoll]

well i will miss her, i think she is good

[alan45]

I do have a shameful confession, I'm afraid. Barbara Windsor is a distant relation of mine....sorry, alan.

They say you can pick your friends but not your relatives

Thank you for being so understanding, alan.

Seriously though she may be a nice person and kind to animals and old ladies. I am basing my opinions on her public appearnces and what i see and hear about her. The fact that she allegedlt gave an alibi to Ronnie Knight does her no favours either.

[parkerman]

I agree with you alan. Actually she doesn't talk about our side of the family and won't have anything to do with us!

[Perdita]

Is she from your side of the family or your wife's side?