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When Barbara Windsor died in December aged 83, precious little of her raucous life and times was spared examination. She wouldn t have minded.
In life, the irrepressible national treasure with the famous wiggle and throaty laugh was an open book, always ready with an eye-popping story normally involving the men in her life. So why would death be any different?
The name of Bob Dunn was, however, notably absent from the extravagant obituaries. Perhaps that is not altogether surprising, since his 20-year relationship with Barbara was a closely guarded secret.
At the time, it suited him fine but Bob, 75, now feels that events and individuals have conspired to airbrush him from Barbara s history entirely. And it s about time that changed, he says in an interview with The Mail on Sunday.
A good bird: remembering Barbara Windsor
A very British icon of both the normal and extraordinary, Dame Barbara Windsor was always in control of her own image.
31 December 2020
Barbara Windsor
“She was a good bird.” Such is the obituary Barbara Windsor requested for herself while appearing on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories ten years ago.
Like everything about her, it is deceptively simple, another way of saying – there’s nothing to me, I’m just like you, what you see is what you get. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Windsor was extraordinary and deeply unusual – a one-off who came to embody British popular culture in the twentieth century like nobody else. When she took part in the BBC’s flagship Desert Island Discs in 1990, she chose as her luxury item a Union Jack, which she promised to wave, alone on the beach, while listening to Land of Hope and Glory.
Barbara Windsor, Beloved British TV and Film Star, Dies at 83
She went from bubbly sex symbol in the “Carry On” films to working-class hero on “EastEnders.” Her private life was often as troubled as her “EastEnders” character’s.
The actress Barbara Windsor at the British Academy Television Awards in London in 2009. She was a star of the series “EastEnders” on and off from 1994 to 2016.Credit.Luke Macgregor/Reuters
Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 19, 2020
LONDON Barbara Windsor, a star of the “Carry On” films and the long-running BBC soap opera “EastEnders,” whose dirty staccato laugh and ability to embody working-class life seared her into Britain’s collective memory, died on Dec. 10 at a care home here. She was 83.
Barbara Windsor whipped clothes off and pounced on Carry On co-star Sid James
Dame Barbara Windsor embarked on a secret affair with her Carry On co-star Sid James, and spoke about their illicit romp in her book All of Me: My Extraordinary Life
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