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Veteran Seven announcer John Deeks has announced his departure from the Seven Network -ending a 44 year association. “Deeksy” often referred to as the Voice of Seven, is best known for his many promo voice-overs as well as famously calling contestants to ‘Come on down’ on The New Price is Right, and announcer on Wheel of Fortune, Press Your Luck, Deal or No Deal, It Takes Two, Man O Man and more. In Melbourne he is synonymous with HSV7 and the long-running Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. He began his career on Melbourne radio stations  3UZ and 3DB, before making th...

'Bubbly Babs' star of nine Carry On films We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss 'Bubbly Babs' star of nine Carry On films December 12, 2020 — 5.49pm Normal text size DAME BARBARA WINDSOR: 1937 - 2020 Dame Barbara Windsor, the actress who has died aged 83, became a national institution by passing off high bosoms and low comedy in the Carry On films, and after many vicissitudes ended her career playing Peggy Mitchell, landlady of the Queen Vic in EastEnders. “Bubbly Babs” won many fans as a generous-hearted and irrepressible Cockney and was ...

Barbara Windsor and Sid James during rehearsals for Carry On London in September 6 1973 Credit: Mirrorpix Filming had wrapped for the day on the Pinewood Studios set of Carry On Henry when Sid James approached Barbara Windsor.  “Hello Barbara, I’ve bought you a present,” said James, then 58 years old, still dressed as Henry VIII. Windsor, who was 34 at the time, would later recall: “He stuck his tongue into the fruit and started licking it, slowly and suggestively. ‘Oh dear, I thought… I’ll have to keep well away from him.’” The encounter at Pinewood Studios in November ...

comments National treasure Dame Barbara Windsor died on Thursday night, aged 83. This was long-expected, but it is still a shock — she was indestructible showbiz royalty. As Joan Collins rightly says: 'Showbusiness has lost a legend.' Her final years were clouded by Alzheimer's disease, which first became apparent in 2014 when she could no longer learn her lines — and she'd always been what is called in the profession 'a quick study'. Through sheer persistence, Babs managed to keep playing Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for a further two years. Once she could no longer perform, she channell...

Mike Brooke Barbara Windsor opening a community hub in the Hackney Road. - Credit: LBTH Barbara Windsor, the most famous and loved East Ender in real life and on screen, has died at the age of 83.  The “Queen of the East End”, who was awarded a Damehood for services to charity and entertainment and an honorary doctorate from the University of East London, played the landlady of The Vic pub in the BBC soap EastEnders for several years and starred in many Carry On films.  A close friend of The Krays, she had humble beginnings in Shoreditch and returned to the Queen Victoria seamen’s re...