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Richard Blackwood Reveals EastEnders Co-Star June Brown Has Such A Good Memory She ‘Knows Everyone's Scenes’

Richard Blackwood has revealed his EastEnders co-star June Brown’s memory is so good she learns what her fellow cast mates’ storylines are.

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The 44-year-old actor admits the 89-year-old soap star - who plays chain-smoking church goer Dot Branning in the long-running show - always knows what’s going on in the BBC One soap because she’s so “vigilant”.

Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine, Richard - who plays bad boy Vincent Hubbard in the show - said: “I’m sure I can speak for most actors when I say that you don’t know what’s going on with other people’s storylines - except for June. She knows everybody’s scenes.

"She will know your upcoming scenes, your back history … she’s very vigilant. Whereas the rest of us, we have so many scripts, we just tend to learn our own scenes.”

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While it seems June is very much the driving force behind the soap, the actress - who has played her caring alter-ego since 1985 - has hinted she may leave Walford when her contract expires in nine months.

She recently said: “I don’t know how long I’ll stay. I don’t think I want to end my life on a soap, but we’ll see.

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"I don’t want to be 100, or even 90. I don’t think I look nearly 90, but because I can’t see these days I don’t know. You don’t think about your age, you just knock it down.”

However, although June is keen to bow out before she’s written out, the soap legend doesn’t like to make future plans because they have a tendency to go “wrong”.

Speaking earlier this year, she said: “I’ve been in the soap for 30 years but you never know what’s going to happen, and you really don’t want to make plans about how long you should stay because they could all go wrong.”