The actor who plays Dot Cotton has no intention of giving up fags and booze. At 92, why should she? asks journalist and author Virginia Ironside
June Brown is my kind of woman. The actor who plays Dot Cotton in EastEnders has said that, at 92, she still smokes and drinks and has no intention of giving up her vices because, after all, she “will die of something fairly soon”. She’ll also keep up her red wine and her dark chocolate even though she’s allergic to it.
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