Barbara Windsor - Peggy Mitchell

[Chloe O'brien]

next she will be on Celebrity Total Wipeout. Can you imagine her bouncing off those big red balls.

[Siobhan]

next she will be on Celebrity Total Wipeout. Can you imagine her bouncing off those big red balls.

I have laughed so hard I spit my tea on my laptop... she wouldn't go over them cause she is so little, it will just be her on the 1st one bouncing for an hour

[parkerman]

Oh dear, I hadn't though of it before, but I suppose we can expect to see her ladyship turn up on Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing on Ice, I'm a Celebrity get me out of here...etc. etc. now.

Anyway, in case any of you don't read the Radio Times, I thought I'd reproduce this letter sent in by Diane Westmoreland of Amble, Northumberland, and published today.:

"Woeful! That's the only way I can think of to describe the departure of the Queen of Walford, Peggy Mitchell. the storyline with Christian, Syed and the Masoods was wonderful: tender, complex and well acted. But this was a sudden descent into caricature and the very worst sort of melodrama.
"The inferno episode was utterly unconvincing, with only Lacey Turner coming out of the smoke with any credibility.
"Still, at least the writers can no longer dish up that hackneyed old line, 'Get aht of my pub.'"

[alan45]

So, after months of hype, Peggy has finally left East-Enders.
After weaving the storyline for most of the year, we were really intrigued to see how the writers would finish it - what clever twists and turns would they come up with to explain a woman whose raison d'etre is her "faaaaamily" naffing off when two of her kids needed her like never before? (Phil's a crack addict and Peggy only talked Sam out of having her baby adopted a few days before, promising she'd look after it.) Guess the reason they came up with? None. Peggy just left, nonsensically and at complete odds with everything we've learnt about her character over the last 15 years.

She took no money (the pile Roxie gave her was still on the kitchen table when she walked out) and no belongings, as she'd lost everything in a lot-of-fuss-about-nothing-fire, in which no one even got hurt. And, the realistic icing on the true-to-life cake, not one of Peggy's family asked her where she was going, or when she'd be back.

EastEnders - it never lets you down (as long as you don't expect it to be better than Hollyoaks).


From the Daily Mirror

Oh dear, I hadn't though of it before, but I suppose we can expect to see her ladyship turn up on Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing on Ice, I'm a Celebrity get me out of here...etc. etc. now.

Anyway, in case any of you don't read the Radio Times, I thought I'd reproduce thsi letter sent in by Diane Westmoreland of Amble, Northumberland, and published today.:

"Woeful! That's the only way I can think of to describe the departure of the Queen of Walford, Peggy Mitchell. the storyline with Christian, Syed and the Masoods was wonderful: tender, complex and well acted. But this was a sudden descent into caricature and the very worst sort of melodrama.
"The inferno episode was utterly unconvincing, with only Lacey Turner coming out of the smoke with any credibility.
"Still, at least the writers can no longer dish up that hackneyed old line, 'Get aht of my pub.'"

Similar to what the Daily Mirror had to say

[alan45]

I saw Babs in a Bingo advert this afternoon. Oh dear!!!

Here is the sad old Queen

[alan45]

Barbara Windsor has opened up about her decision to leave EastEnders - saying she had stopped being "fun".

The actress, who left the soap after nearly 16 years, said it was time to leave when she couldn't leave the character of Peggy Mitchell at work.

She told the BBC: "One of the reason I made a decision to leave was because I wasn't leaving it outside. It's very important to go in your front room, have a recce about what you and your partner have done, and then you must forget about it... I'd stopped doing that."

She went on: "I was taking home Peggy. I'd become her and get through the front door and everything was about Peggy and everything was about EastEnders, and Sunday was spent learning. It just took over and I wasn't fun anymore."

Babs will be seen later this year as Fairy Bowbells in a panto of Dick Whittington at the Bristol Hippodrome.

Let's hope her fun side comes out for that!

[parkerman]

Let's hope her fun side comes out for that!

I can't quite work out the logistics for the obvious joke here!

[alan45]

I can't quite work out the logistics for the obvious joke here!

I can but I dont want to get banned

[Siobhan]

I can but I dont want to get banned

Well, Carry on Alan!!

[alan45]

Captions please