Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Dot’s got hot moves
In a scene unlikely to feature on Eastenders, two of its stars June Brown and Natalie Cassidy shared a naked hot tub session.
Despite the large age gap, the pair have often been on holiday together.
Game for a laugh June, 93, who played Dot Cotton on the BBC soap, and Natalie, 37, stripped off and jumped in a whirlpool bath during a trip abroad.
Natalie, who portrays Sonia Fowler, says: “We have had so many lovely evenings together.
“We went to Malta once and we were naked in the hot tub together.
“We would go to nightclubs. She was very lively and still is.”
She also pays tribute to Dame Barbara Windsor, 83, in tonight’s BBC1 episode of Eastenders: Secrets from the Square.
Natalie says Dame Barbara, who played Queen Vic landlady Peggy
Mitchell for 22 years and who now has Alzheimer’s, was a force to be reckoned with on the set. She says: “If you were late or weren’t in she’d have a go at you. And that stuck with us.
“She was amazing... [an] icon wandering around like a tiny ball of energy.”
Shona Mcgarty, 28, who plays Whitney Dean, says: “She said ‘You can’t be late, dear’. And she did it in such a lovely way, I was never late again.”
admits her upcoming memoirs will cause “a lott of people to be upset” with her.
Her “ruthless and heartless”tless” “ex-brother” Morgan andnd “ex-sister” Alison can probably expect to be upset by The Meaning of Mariahiah
Carey, having spoken
Mariah Carey
about the star previously, and their mum, Patricia.
“They have been heartless in terms of d dealing with me for most of my life,” Mariah tells Vulture.vultur “I never would have spokenspoke about my family had they not done it first. I thinkthi they’re very broken andan I feel sad for them.”