June Brown wins a Lifetime Achievement Award

June Brown wins the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards 2005.

[@joepagram8287]

this honestly makes me weep now. what a talent, what an icon, and what an absolute laugh. Rest in peace sweet June Brown. You are an absolute inspiration for all humanity!

[@thenightporter]

How refreshing to see an auditorium filled with actors that look like normal people, not full of silicone like Hollywood.

[@MySparky2000]

Two legends who are sadly no longer with us x

[@dannygriffiths5072]

June Brown has been in EastEnders for 31 Years now and turns 90 in February. She is a true EastEnders Icon!

[@rem2267]

Danny Griffiths Yes - a true legend.

[@huwwilson650]

Shes 92 now and still in Eastenders now.

[@dannygriffiths7952]

I’m shocked she’s left

[@jccurran9327]

@@dannygriffiths7952 - Didnt know. When did she leave the program? Many thanks. Best wishes to all. From: South NJ, IUSA ❤❤❤

[@dannygriffiths7952]

jc curran February this year. They haven’t written her out totally she went to Ireland.

[@bobbymaesteg]

Her surprise is so genuine it’s wonderful. Richly deserved

[@kylejnicholson]

You don't win a life time achievement... You achieve one.

[@charlieminaj2]

Actually you get voted by the judges it’s the only award the public don’t vote for, I take part in the voting via email🤙🏻💥

[@PimpMacSlickBac]

Rest in peace and love June Brown, to the true meaning of a legend.

[@SnapCrackleKABOOM]

june is simply amazing. i love how happy and surprised she looked when she got the award :) xx

[@RogueWJL]

Two titans of British Showbusiness now sadly no longer with us. 🙏

[@Tully97]

Still going strong strong in 2015.. What a legend, one of the all time greats! Even at the age of 88 she can still bring just as much depth and emotion as most Actors.

[@doop6995]

she dead

[@ChadRichards77]

:(

[@UltimatelyEverything]

Everyone loves June Brown she's a legend and she's such a sweet and kind person on and off camera well done to her and she looks amazing for her age such a great woman.

[@averagewhovian]

R.I.P Barbara Windsor 💔 xx You are with other angels now 🌌❤️

[@averagewhovian]

​@marklynn5899💔💔

[@mad4eastenders]

The euthanasia storyline and those final scenes she did with Ethel remain one of the most amazing, touching performances I've *ever* seen on television! She deserved this award for those moments alone!

[@tellymadman]

june brown and barbara windsor are by far the nicest people ini soap

[@micaeljimenez629]

She is a riot, love June Brown!!!

[@TheMediaSource]

R.I.P. Our old girl

[@regenttie2771]

What a legendary actress RIP 🕊

[@ivorharden]

June was very loyal to her colleagues. When they killed of Pete Beale she quit the soap because the actor didn't want to leave. RIP

[@janeokeeffe5297]

Rest in peace June 🙏🕯️thank you for entertaining us for all those years ❤️

[@StefanOverton]

She deserved that so much. LOVE HER.

[@Em-fv4sw]

Love June Brown and her character Dot Cotton. A true legend she is!

[@ericmaine]

Did she not know she was receiving the award ? She looks genuinely surprised.

[@neptunestardust]

Yh she didn't know

[@tomg6220]

no one is told in advance only the cast/crew are told of that show but yeah the actor or actress is never told

[@DavidJones-ef2lt]

@@tomg6220 Incorrect they are to ensure they attend. Most the people who get "lifetime achievement" are old and if you look in previous years they will not be present at the awards doo.

[@popland1977]

@@DavidJones-ef2lt So you think she was pretending?

[@DavidJones-ef2lt]

@@popland1977 it was well deserved but she's not usually in attendance and yet that one time oh look you win 😜 She more than deserves it but it often staged...

[@realfredwithtires]

June Brown is LEGENDARY!

[@FredPickett]

What an honor for One of the best. R.I.P. Ms June.

[@user-kh3vm6oe3u]

watching this 2 days after junes passing🙏❤️legend

[@ianbentley7276]

HILARIOUS WOMAN AND SO DOWN TO EARTH.

[@Endersfan]

What can one say? She is an absolute ICON. I love her to bits. She has been nominated for a BAFTA woohoo!

[@AlbieGray]

Lovely that June won lifetime achievement award; and a treat indeed to see Anna Wing (Lou) show up for the occasion. EastEnders rules!

[@Mr1958louief]

She is Eastenders!!

[@trevorthompson7604]

She will be loved and remembered always God bless you June XX

[@christinefougere1444]

I loved Dot, I wish I could watch the 2000's again.

[@queencaitlinsparkle2001]

But you can, you can watch the clips on youtube

[@Feddergenetics]

RIP YOU LEGEND now with BABS AND GRETCHEN AND ANNA up there ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jamiedodger7830]

She's a legend. Hilarious

[@ryanmonaghan7201]

Love how she says about the bad writers lol

[@elizabethwisbey1114]

June brown is a legend and Eastenders would not be the be the same.

[@jacquiwilliams4291]

Three fantastic ladies ,how we miss you all ,God bless you ladies ,hope you have a good old gossip where you are now ,❤

[@xxfayerocksxx]

yeah she is :) she's lovely and hilarious too

[@xXxmissemmaxXx]

barbara is her best friend, thats why she presented it. and them two are the main oldies along with pat in the show

[@danieltheofficialtreacy446]

Lou Ethel and dot were like ena sharples Minnie Caldwell and Martha longhurst of coronation street In the 1960s

[@anthonypoole6417]

They were Daniel. Lou definitely the Ena of the three.

[@reececlive1705]

Iconic legend!

[@DogeVRYT]

We are gonna miss you dot cotton R.I.P june brown 😢 😞 ❤

[@bobbymaesteg]

All stars together and all dead now Paul, Anna, Barbara and June. Wonderful people

[@asha6588]

June Brown is a natural

[@zakhirhulkorey2087]

Lou Was a great lady and great actor. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@tellymadman]

june and babs are legends

[@erhrjfrjrfeeeromeo3970]

June is still in EastEnders she's bin in EastEnders for long time

[@trishyangel123]

The tommy channel *been

[@saintpaul2703]

So Sweet... love the acceptance sequence... so heartfelt and her older lady friend coming in... marvelous...

[@pearlhubbins5474]

+Saint Paul That "older lady friend" was one of the early characters in Eastenders

[@princessDianaB]

June brown reali deserved 2 win. she is such a great actress.

[@ashyosings5089]

When you see it was posted 12 years ago and you realise you’re 20 now

[@Blue19977697]

I'm 21 and tbh EastEnders won't be the same without June Brown, she makes that soap!!💯💯

[@thomassudbury9174]

holy shit 12 years ago this was uploaded

[@davidmartin9333]

I have missed June brown, i know it's not hard playing as dot cotton and dot branning. She had been with Albert square and eastenders as Barbara Windsor said about her have received her career in a best loved soap like eastenders and i will miss her. I have stopped watching eastenders because she is the heart of eastenders and i wish that everybody will deeply missed June brown so she deserved that award because that will hournond her in next year so well done sweetheart

[@pearlhubbins5474]

How I wish we could return to the start of Eastenders, the characters were so interesting and real, the story lines so believable that you couldn't wait for the next episode - Now I rarely watch it, it has lost all it's charm

[@properjob2311]

She was a Legend

[@donnablackman3954]

Rip great actress ❤️

[@laminage]

I think it's so cool that they don't mention the "Winner" until the night of the Broadcast. On US Soaps we lost two amazing Actresses. Frances Reid who played Alice Horton on Days Of Our Lives starting in 1965 and died this year. The same went for Helen Wagner who played Nancy Hughes McCloskey on As The World Turns beginning in 1956 which makes her the longest running Soap Actress next to Bill Roache (Ken Coronation St), in fact they are both in The Guinness Book Of World Records.

[@lisaoldwithsomanywhys5487]

So sad to live in USA cuz I missed this amazing woman & show👏❣👏

[@lisaheisey6168]

I live in the USA and started watching EastEnders here, in 1986. I never missed an episode up until 2003, when I stopped watching it. So, I don't know if it's still shown, but it was available in the USA about a year after it debuted in the UK. It was shown on our PBS station.

[@nathanfrancis7489]

The word icon comes to mind

[@tellymadman]

june should've won at the BAFTAs hands down! the winner didn't even turn up! WE LOVE U JUNE!!!

[@adamhughes4442]

RIP June Brown. Legend.

[@MrNEILSUPERNAUT]

Nice to see 2 of the stars of 'The 14' together! June who played the mother and Anna Wing who played 'Auntie Rose'.

[@Sol-Cutta]

At her best...god bless u June brown (if u believe in that kind of thing) ( And if not ) rip to a wonderful actress I've known since I was 13yrs old. Thankyou mam.

[@TheMediaSource]

15 YEARS AGO?!

[@tonightwefly]

we love you june xxxxxxxx

[@ashtonkfan]

Great clip, thanks!

[@teacherkate1]

Absolute legend. “One or two not so hot...” 😂

[@hifsahhussain206]

She deserved it 👌👌👌👌

[@martinwilliamdavies7977]

June Brown on screen, she'd just make you smile.

[@Donegalwildatlantic]

Paul o Grady will be missed loved this man so much hey give em hell up there l em he'll up there 😢

[@miroslavtomic7038]

Putting Jim and Dot together was one of, if not the best decision in history of EastEnders. It saved both characters from being stale or maybe even axed in near future. As we all know, Jim was originally portrayed as staunch racist and was originally a very much hated villain of the soap. Eventually, putting him into the marriage with Dot and making him best friends with Patrick Trueman, saved the character and made him iconic. John Bardon, despite being known for playing villains quite a lot during his illustrious career, simply seemed miscast as a villain and racist as Jim Branning. On the other hand, it all saved Dot, too. She was becoming a very much stale character, mostly revolving around her personal problems and worrying about Nick. Marriage to Jim made Dot finally evolve into the iconic character we all know and love. There were rumors that right before Jim and Dot were put into storyline marriage, there have have been serious discussions about axing both characters from the soap, some of those rumors even claimed that producers planned to kill Dot off permanently. Luckely for everybody, if all or any of that is true, someone suggested that they give Jim and Dot another chance and put them together. Now they are considered one of most legendary married couples in history of British television. And just think it almost didn't happen and came about almost as an afterthought.

[@Jake-Watch]

She really was the best wasn’t she.

[@joestewart-paul7181]

Ah dear old Lou. It was very moving seeing Anna Wing appear.

[@johnbleakley4125]

Dorothy Cotton aside, she was also in a 7O's film called " The 14 "(aka The Little Wild Bunch), directed by the late-great David Hemmings. It's about a family of children's struggle to survive and to remain together as a family, after the sudden death of their mother (June Brown) from a heart attack. Lovley, moving film and very hard to find on dvd. RIP June Brown greatly missed!!! 😢

[@sirdanielwatlingsmbe5625]

Truly heartbreaking that June Brown, Anna Wing, Paul O’Grady and Barbara Windsor are now all dead 💔🕊️

[@Ross.Cavendish]

Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking.

[@juliepownall1063]

Legend top actress rest in peace June

[@sashahelliar829]

John Bardon looks so proud, awh 🥰

[@tellymadman]

june is you don't win that BAFTA I will eat my hat! you simply deserve it!!!

[@rem2267]

Great speech!

[@PinkSparklerToontown]

Legend

[@arenm0743]

RIP legend ❤️

[@laminage]

I really love the fact that the don't announce the "Lifetime Achievement Award" Winner until the show is telecast. They don't do that on the US Soaps.

[@Endersfan]

Love her

[@jibby05051]

What an amazing lady. I don’t know her but what a own style

[@bowler8]

her repartee is like kenneth williams

[@Feddergenetics]

BABS 🥺🥺🥺🥺 RIP SWEETHEART JUNE IS AMAZING ❤️

[@bobbymaesteg]

RIP June xx

[@carmenpetrou376]

So missed♥️🌹🙏🕊️

[@laminage]

Boy lucky you!! It must be hard for her now that Wendy Richie is now gone. That was so sad to hear about.

[@helenakegg9432]

RIP June Brown ❤️ God bless xx💕

[@leemeadisthebest]

I met her at Gatwick Airport a couple of weeks ago!

[@Bernadette61983]

6:04 Awww Nana Moon (Hilda Braid) is in the audience. That was 2 years b4 she died. Lol, June going on about her teeth. I think, they made her look cute. She was not allowed to get them corrected until they became loose. Lou Beale (Anna Wing) is abt. 13 years older than June Brown and is now 96. Hopefully June also has at least another 13 years to go. Sadly Ethel (Gretchen Franklin) didn't make it to the awards and died 2 month later.

[@carriew5106]

So sad today. Rest fabulously June.

[@ankicat3425]

Both June Brown and late Barbara Windsor, are both EastEnders icons

[@pauljohnson6019]

Soon June will be joining her, she must be 95 now!

[@catsbig200]

@@pauljohnson6019 she has rip june

[@iknowwhatsup2880]

She's grand!

[@ivanahavitoff7308]

jackpot joy!

[@alharps]

Anna Wing (Lou Beale) is now 97 years old and this is what she looks like now, and I say for someone who is 97 years old and still going on with her career it is amazing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJOunGdqhdGrd7c thats the link<

[@alicanharryreilly8353]

Rip June Brown 1927-2022

[@debbielundberg9379]

RIP June Brown

[@roxannemaina4769]

A true legend of EastEnders

[@RandomPeter94]

"I've been fortunate in having SOME very very good writers, one or two not so.." :L

[@TheMightsparrow]

Rest in peace June 🙏 Lady GaGa isn't your only fan