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EastEnders actress June Brown has turned another year older and marked her 94th birthday on February 16.The soap icon is beat known for playing Dot Cotton and joined the BBC One soap back in 1985.In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and previously received the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Soap Awards.June was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to drama and to charity.In 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, making her the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera, after Jean Alexander.It was announced in February 2020 that June had decided to leave EastEnders behind and quit her role as chain-smoking Dot permanently.To celebrate the birthday girl, Daily Star has taken a look back at her wild life from opening up about being "sick and tired" of having sex to her unexpected friendship with pop sensation turned Hollywood actress Lady Gaga.June was born on 16 February 1927 in Needham Market, Suffolk and was one of five children.Her younger brother John Peter died of pneumonia in 1932 at 15 days old, and her elder sister Marise died in 1934 aged eight from a meningitis-like illness. She was educated at St John's Church of England School in Ipswich and then won a scholarship to Ipswich High School, where she passed the school certificate examinations.During the Second World War, she was evacuated to the Welsh village of Pontyates in Carmarthenshire.

EastEnders icon June Brown has been advised by doctors not to quit smoking as it might have an adverse effect on her health – according to her on-screen son.

EastEnders legend June Brown, 93, has revealed she can’t watch the BBC show anymore after recently quitting her iconic role as Dot Cotton.The actress, who starred in the soap for 35 years, explained she finds it “difficult” to watch the television after being diagnosed with the incurable eye condition macular degeneration.June underwent eye surgery in 2017 in an attempt to save her sight, but confirmed last year that she is unfortunately starting to go blind.Opening up about the health issue to The Mirror, the star said: “I haven’t been watching it [EastEnders] 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.

EastEnders legend June Brown says she can no longer watch the soap because her eyesight is too bad.The 93-year-old, who quit the show in February after 35 years playing Dot, explained: “I haven’t been watching it as I do find it difficult to see the television very clearly.“If your sight is poor, there is very little you can do.“I read my kindle instead.

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