Also smoking, drinking, poor diets, little exercise.' Gillian first appeared on EastEnders in 1985. She played the role until 1998, then again between 1999 and 2000. The soap star returned ...

EASTENDERS Nick Cotton star John Altman has ... Elsewhere, he confessed how famed chain-smoker June once encouraged him to carry on smoking even after he had managed to kick the bad habit.

When EastEnders launched on BBC One in 1985 ... that became more familiar than their own neighbours. There was chain-smoking Bible-botherer Dot Cotton, and her delinquent son, Nick; Den, the ...

‘EastEnders is in my bones so I will never forget where I started my career and I will continue to love the show.’ The soap legend wrapped filming earlier this month and noted that she hadn ...

The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that someone on the square is having a worse day than you have helped it to reach an ...