{"id":483,"date":"2020-12-11T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=483"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:47:25","slug":"dame-barbara-windsor-carry-on-and-eastenders-actress-dies-aged-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Dame Barbara Windsor: Carry On and EastEnders actress dies aged 83"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Dame Barbara Windsor, best known for her roles in EastEnders and the Carry On films, has died aged 83.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her husband Scott Mitchell said she had died peacefully from Alzheimer’s at a London care home on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said she would be remembered for the “love, fun, friendship and brightness she brought to all our lives”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prime Minister\u00a0Boris Johnson led the tributes, tweeting<\/a>: “So sad about Barbara Windsor, so much more than a great pub landlady and Carry On star.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He added that she “campaigned for the lonely and the vulnerable – and cheered the world up with her own British brand of harmless sauciness and innocent scandal”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dame Barbara was diagnosed with the disease in 2014 and had\u00a0moved to a care home earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She appeared in nine films in the Carry On comedy series, plus Sparrows Can’t Sing, for which she was nominated for a Bafta, as well as parts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and On the Fiddle with Sir Sean Connery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was well known to millions of TV viewers for her portrayal of landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, starring alongside her on-screen children Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her last appearance in the soap came in 2016, the same year she was made a dame for her services to charity and entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She also worked in theatre – making her stage debut at 13 – and appeared in productions including Oh! What A Lovely War and Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be.\"Barbara<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After her dementia diagnosis, Dame Barbara became an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society and\u00a0met Mr Johnson to raise awareness about the disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The star delivered a letter signed by 100,000 people pleading for better care for people affected by dementia and saying the system was “completely inadequate, unfair, unsustainable and in dire need of more money”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Mitchell, who campaigned alongside his wife, said of her death: “It was not the ending that Barbara or anyone else living with this very cruel disease deserve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I will always be immensely proud of Barbara’s courage, dignity and generosity dealing with her own illness and still trying to help others by raising awareness for as long as she could.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The couple went public with her diagnosis in 2018 and Mr Mitchell had said they had been “really nervous” about revealing she was affected by the condition.<\/p>\n

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