June Brown reveals there are no traditional Cockney accents on EastEnders anymore: ‘It’s lazy speech!’
June Brown has played EastEnders’ beloved Dot Cotton for more than thirty years. But, the 90-year-ancient actress has now revealed that her co-stars accents – including Danny Dyer who plays Mick Carter – use “slovenly speech” that sounds much more like “The Only Way Is Essex” rather than Cockney. June admitted that she bases her own accent – which she calls “the Queen’s Cockney” – on her splendid-aunt and that nowadays people use “bone idle …