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2001: 23 people are killed and hundreds are injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when a building collapses. On the same day, 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to ...
It’s a scene that even Dot Cotton and her reliable tea leaves couldn ... the one shared by June Brown and Gretchen Franklin (Dot and Ethel), and another starring Pam St Clement and Barbara ...
Ethel Joyce "Dot" Thompson, 98, passed away peacefully on January 16, 2025, in Denver, Colorado. She was surrounded by love in her own bedroom, with her daughter and son-in-law by her side ...
There was chain-smoking Bible-botherer Dot Cotton, and her delinquent son ... of grubby goings-on in the Queen Victoria pub, and Ethel’s pug Willy, EastEnders’ answer to Mrs Slocombe ...
Forming a triumvirate of powerhouse pensioners in the early days with matriarchal mates Lou Beale and Dot Cotton (before she was a Branning), Ethel had lived through the Blitz where she saw ...
Several weeks later Nick Cotton, who went on to become soap's ... in and all those interactions in the early days between Dot and Ethel (not forgetting 'Little Willy'). One of the big EastEnders ...
Gretchen Franklin, who played Ethel Skinner, was Walford's gossip ... 2000 where she passed away in the company of best friend Dot Cotton. Gretchen passed away in real life in 2005, aged 94.
Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin ... her final appearance in 2000 where she passed away in company of best pal Dot Cotton. In real-life, Gretchen died in 2005, aged 94. Nick Cotton is the original ...
Her last scenes aired in September 2000 amid a controversial euthanasia storyline as Ethel asked best friend Dot to help her take ... clashes with racist Nick Cotton and constantly struggled ...
EastEnders fans are shocked as they notice Dot Cotton's secret Christmas trend which ... Mrs Branning buried next to her dearest friend Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin), who died in 2000 ...
EASTENDERS fans have been left stunned by noticing a secret Christmas trend of Dot Cotton. The eagle-eyed among ... which she named Ethel after her best friend: “Don't go licking yourself ...
The late June Brown and Leonard Fenton, who played Dot Cotton and Dr Legg in EastEnders ... misty-eyed mentions of names from E20’s past: Ethel Skinner (but sadly not her little Willy), Lou ...