EastEnders stalwart June Brown, who plays Dot Cotton, is starting to lose her hearing just months after admitting that she's been struggling to see.
The much-loved actress, 88, who joined the BBC soap 30 years ago, revealed that she has started to go deaf after being unable to hear during a Q&A at the BFI this weekend.
Brown was unable to hear what former co-star Barbara Windsor was saying despite sitting close to her, saying:
“Are you talking to me Babs? Tell me, because I am deaf you see and it is very hard for me to hear so I don’t know what you are talking about.
“What did you say to me? Sorry, I would like you all to shout because I can’t hear, you see. I am ever so sorry. I am straining here.”
She later confirmed to The Sun: “Unfortunately it happened when I was going up to Glasgow for a charity.
Stalwart: June Brown has played Dot Cotton for 30 years
BBC“My ears impacted and they haven’t come back since. I hope that they might do at some moment."
In a recent interview with Radio 4, Brown confirmed that her eyesight was beginning to fail.
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She said: “I see things in my eyes now. My eyes are not very good. In the left occasionally I do get this small circle with what looks like cross-wires.
"I do pray about my sight – maybe it will return.”