{"id":673894,"date":"2026-11-03T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673894\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:34:10","slug":"eastenders-star-lacey-turner-reveals-why-iconic-june-brown-hated-show-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673894\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders star Lacey Turner reveals why iconic June Brown “hated” show changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

EastEnders’ Lacey Turner revealed why soap icon June Brown “hated” show changes. Brown was best known for her role as Dot Cotton, a part she’d played since 1985. <\/p>\n

The actor, who passed away in 2022 at age 95<\/a>, made multiple appearances in EastEnders, leaving the show in 1993 before returning in 1997. She also took a break in 2012, coming back to the role in 2013 after six months and eventually departed EastEnders in 2020. <\/p>\n

Turner first joined the show in 2004 as Stacey Slater and worked alongside Brown for several years. In her recent memoir ‘Gold Dust: My Life (So Far) with the Woman Who Shaped Me<\/a>‘, she revealed that Brown was very knowledgeable when it came to the show’s storylines. <\/p>\n

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“June was across everything at work, she read every script. She knew everyone\u2019s story and what all the characters were up to,” she wrote. <\/p>\n

“Not many people did that but June was all-knowing and even when she started losing her sight she would have somebody read the whole thing to her.”<\/p>\n

According to Turner, Brown became “upset about the direction the show was taking”, adding: “She hated some of the storylines. What was hard for June? Was that the world was changing? Which meant EastEnders had to change, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were watching television in a different way but she couldn\u2019t or didn\u2019t want to move at the times, and I completely get where she was coming from because I feel a bit like that as well.”<\/p>\n

In 2017, Brown said during an appearance in a special BBC show to celebrate her 90th birthday, June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend, that she could be “very bossy” when it came to the show’s writing. <\/p>\n

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“It is very difficult to go against the writing,” she said (via The Mirror<\/a>). “If they decide to change you or the writers change, not deliberately or just what happens…I am a great fighter. I’m very much a terrier.<\/p>\n

”I try to twist them around a little. There is a way of twisting. It’s just the way you say it. It ain’t what you say, it’s the way what you say it. So I must admit to that. I’m very bossy really.”<\/p>\n

Turner, who is currently appearing on Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>, departed Walford last year, also revealing in her memoir that it was Martin Fowler’s death<\/a> in the show’s 40th anniversary episode that influenced her decision to leave. <\/p>\n

EastEnders airs on Mondays-Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast. <\/p>\n

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