’EastEnders’ legend June Brown has successfully undergone surgery to help restore her eyesight.
The actress, who plays Dot Branning on the BBC soap, revealed her vision has improved following a pioneering 60-second treatment, which currently being trialled before being rolled out across the country.
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June previously admitted her condition was making learning lines for ‘EastEnders’ difficult, but she has now told the Daily Express: “I can see people’s faces and recognise my children again.”
June’s condition was also written into her soap storylines last year, when Dot began suffering problems with her eyesight.
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The actress, who celebrated her 90 birthday in February, first spoke about the problems with her vision in 2015, telling Radio 4: “I see things in my eyes now. My eyes are not very good. In the left occasionally I do get this small circle with what looks like cross-wires.
“I do pray about my sight – maybe it will return.”
Months later, she revealed that she had lost some of her hearing after taking a flight to Glasgow for a charity event, and it hadn’t returned.
June first appeared in ‘EastEnders’ in July 1985, a few months after the soap’s launch.
She later quit in 1993, only to return four years later, and has remained on the show ever since.