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Dame Barbara Windsor : Carry On and a night with George Best

Actress Dame Barbara Windsor was 83 when she succumbed to Alzheimer’s at a London care home. Dame Barbara is best remembered as the star of nine of the 31 Carry On films, The Rag Trade, Sparrows Can’t Sing and EastEnders. But it was on stage where her talent and effervescence marked her out for stardom.

After a stint at the Aida Foster School in Golders Green, Windsor joined Joan Littlewood’s company at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, east London, appearing in productions of Oh! What A Lovely War and Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be.

At four foot ten and half inches tall with a bawdy laugh and impressive cleavage, ‘Babs’, a native of London’s East End, was a terrific and apparently fearless performer – although as she once cautioned: “I am not like my image,. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.”

Take the memorable bra scene in Carry on Camping (1969), filmed in chilly February and March. Windsor stands in a field with other women. She is dressed in a bikini. Twang! The straps cannot stand the strain. The bra jets off and lands on Kenneth Williams’ face, in his role as the gym instructor. The bra was attached to a fishing rod. On take one the props man pulled. The bra did not come loose and Babs was dragged over and through the mud. “Get her up and mop her down. Let’s go for another take”, Windsor heard as she struggled to her feet.

She married three times, including to small-time criminal Ronnie Knight, and she also dated hymned villains Charlie Kray and his brother Reggie, her Carry On co-star Sid James, Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees and the footballer George Best, of whom she said: “There was this vision, this absolute vision. He was so beautiful. He came over to me in the bar and I said, ‘Look, don’t waste your time with me, darling. You’ve got all these lovely ladies after you’. And he said, ‘Well, when do I ever get to talk to somebody like you?’ Well, that did it. That was it. A magic moment.”

Dame Barbara Windsor (nee Barbara Ann Deeks): August 6, 1937 (Shoreditch, London) – December 10, 2020.

Posted: 11th, December 2020 | In: Celebrities, News | Comment


Pie and Mash saved the world: the stars who love the traditional cockney staple

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PIE and Mash, the traditional cockney staple, is under threat. An ageing fan base, coupled with a shortage of eels, has accelerated the decline of the traditional eel and pie shop.

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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (3)


Vintage book of the Day: Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs

VINTAGE book of the Day: Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs.

Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs is a riotous collection of boobs of every kind – an amazing mixture of misprints, mistakes and misunderstandings – a collection of classic clangers, hilarious howlers and headlines gone haywire. What’s more every single one of them is true!  Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs is great fun for all the family. Just pick up a copy – and carry on laughing!

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Posted: 9th, February 2012 | In: Flashback | Comment


Barbara Windsor Wins Freedom Of The City Of London: Career In Pictures

BARBARA Windsor was with her umbrella wallah and husband Scott Mitchell as went to London’s Guidhall to collect her Freedom of the City of London award. With the gong come the rights – Windsor can now legally driver her sheep across Tower Bridge, wear a Magic Roundabout Doogle toy on her head and sing ‘Cheeky Sorta’ Bird‘ at the top of her voice while exercising her chests in Stanmore…

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Barbara Windsor, seen with her husband Scott Mitchell, as she receives the Freedom of the City of London at the Guidhall in London.

Posted: 4th, August 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment


David Walliams Marries Lara Stone: In Photos

DAVID Walliams has married leggy Dutch model Lara Stone at Claridge’s Hotel in central London. Stone, 26, sported a £30,000 Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy dress. Walliams, 38, wore a suit. Guests wore smiles. Hello! And OK! wore a look of frustration – no showbiz mag sale here, folks. Also there: Matt Lucas, Robin Dashwood, Natalie Imbruglia, Alan Carr, Denise van Outen, Lee Mead, David Baddiel, Barbara Windsor, Jonathan Ross, Ronnie Corbett, James Corden, Jimmy Carr, Steve Coogan and Dale Winton. Forget the snark – this was a good do. Anorak has never been  fan of the tedious Little Britain, a flaccid bunch of gags dressed up in puke. But Walliams remains likeable.

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David Walliams and his new wife Lara Stone leave Claridge's Hotel in central London following their wedding.



Posted: 16th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Katie Price Out Fronted By Debbie Rush At National Television Awards: In Pictures

AFTER Christine Hendricks saw the Golden Globes renamed in her honour – The Christine Hendricks Golden Globes – we looked across the red rope for signs of who would be our stand-out star at the Britain’s National Television Awards 2010. In they trotted: Katie Price, Amanda Donohoe, Dannii Minogue, Heather Mills, Kara Tointon, Barbara Windsor, Shobna Gulati Helen Flanagan, Loose Women, Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell looking like an Easter Island statue. But nothing doing. So it’s Katie Price again – unless it’s Debbie Rush!: (Show pics)

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(L-R) Carol McGiffin, Jane McDonald and Sherrie Hewson arriving for the National Television Awards 2010, at the 02 Arena, London.

Posted: 20th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment


Barbara Windsor Leaves EastEnders: A Career In Pictures

113BARBARA Windsor  is leaving EastEnders, the show that needed her more then she needed it. Babs is a true talent, who proves that there is no shortcut to being a star.

Any act keen to get on should perform live before a paying audience who demand entertaining,. TV gives out free tickets and excuses the ordinary. Live on stage there is no escape.

Anorak looks back at Windsor’s career in pictures:

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Barbara Windsor, seen with her husband Scott Mitchell, as she receives the Freedom of the City of London at the Guidhall in London.

Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment