June Brown has revealed she no longer watches EastEnders after quitting – because she can’t see the television.
The actress, 93, suffers with poor eyesight and struggles to see well enough to watch anything on the box.
She told the Mirror: “I haven’t been watching it as I find it difficult to see the television very clearly.
“If your sight is poor, there’s very little you can do. I read my Kindle instead. I can see where everything is around the house but nothing’s clear.”
The actress has been a regular star on the soap since just after it began in 1985 and stayed consistently, except for a break between 1993 and 1997.
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June revealed she had quit the soap earlier this year in a bombshell interview.
She said on the podcast Distinct Nostalgia: “I don’t want a retainer for EastEnders, I’ve left. I’ve left for good [and] sent her off to Ireland where she’ll stay. I’ve left EastEnders. I did make up a limerick. It’s a bit dirty.
“I went back to do a good story.
“Alas and alack, when I got back it had gone up in smoke.
“I got a small part, a very small part.
“And that ended up as a big wet fart. Alas and alack, I will never go back.”
Why did June quit EastEnders?
Her on-screen son, John Altman, later claimed she quit over a host of issues.
John told the Sun’s TV Mag: “I spoke to her obviously but I don’t want to quote her but I think generally, bless her heart, she’s 93 number one, so she does get very tired these days. Number two, I don’t think she was getting the best of storylines.
“She’s very much a die hard professional in the business and she wasn’t getting quite what she was… she wasn’t very impressed by some of the writing she was getting.”
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He also claimed she was far from impressed with new Dotty actress Milly Zero taking over the role from Molly Conlin, who previously appeared in 2008.
John said: “It was a great shame that Molly Conlin wasn’t brought back as Dotty as well, I don’t think she was very happy about that.”
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