The landlady Peggy Mitchell in the soap 'EastEnders' portrayed by the British actress Barbara Windsor, has died aged 83, British media reported on Friday, quoting a statement from her husband. "It is with deep sadness that I can confirm that my darling wife Barbara passed away at 8.35 pm on Thursday 10 December at a London Care Home", Windsor`s husband Scott Mitchell said in a statement as quoted by the British media.
"Her passing was from Alzheimer`s/Dementia and Barbara eventually died peacefully and I spent the last 7 days by her side," the statement continued. She was diagnosed with this disease in 2014 and earlier this year she had moved to a care home. In 1994, Windsor debuted as Peggy Mitchell on EastEnders in 1994, taking a break from the show for medical reasons in 2003, before returning as a series regular in 2005. In 2009, she quit the long-running soap as she wanted to spend more time with her husband whom she had married in 2000. She highlighted that the role as landlady Peggy Mitchell, which saw her famously shouting "Get outta my pub" at startled locals, had changed her life.
Windsor had been mostly known as a comedy actress. She made her film acting debut in "The Belles of St Trinian`s" in 1954 and emerged as a prominent star with the innuendo-laden "Carry On" series in the 1960s and 70s. "It was not the ending that Barbara or anyone else living with this very cruel disease deserves," her husband said after she passed away. "I will always be immensely proud of Barbara`s courage, dignity and generosity dealing with her own illness and still trying to help others by raising awareness for as long as she could," he added.
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