EastEnders actress June Brown admits that she’s losing her hearing and her eyesight

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.

“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.

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.”