Dot Cotton Is one of us :)

[ApOsTle51]

Yup , June Brown who plays Dot cotton in Eastenders uses e-cigs in places she can't smoke.

There is even Rumours she was filmed on a documentary Using a screwdriver.

Nothing like a little high profile public awarness of the devices i guess.


She was using one at the BAFTA nominations last week.

June Brown, aka Dot Cotton from EastEnders, was one of the nominees present, having been shortlisted for the first time for BAFTA's Best Television Actress award, the first soap actress to have done so since Jean Alexander (Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden) in 1989.
Once more she refused to look her 82 years and posed for the cameras in a black dress, beige overcoat and giant sunglasses, cunningly sidestepping the indoor smoking ban by employing an electronic cigarette to get her nicotine fix.

Rex Features - Photographic press agency and picture library

and From the mirror article : EastEnders' legend June Brown on her Bafta nod - mirror.co.uk

June likes her cigarettes so much she has found a way around the smoking bans in pubs and restaurants.
When we meet at a posh London hotel, she shows off her new electric cigarettes. At £40 each, they give her a nicotine hit but release water vapour instead of smoke so she can use them indoors.
"You are allowed to smoke them in hotels and places like that," June says, brandishing one and taking a puff. "That is water vapour coming out. There is no ash, you can put it on a table and it doesn’t burn.
"I have got a normal-looking one and a black one with a blue light on the end that comes on when you inhale.
"I have even got a leaflet to say that it is legal to smoke it inside.
"I normally carry it around with me, but today my bag was a bit small."

ApO.

 

[Caesarea]

Yup , June Brown who plays Dot cotton in Eastenders uses e-cigs in places she can't smoke.

Wish there were more stories like this!

Thanks Apostle51.

 

[surbitonPete]

She's is probably a member of ECF......I can't work out who though.

 

[frogbmth]

Great stuff! If you ever get the chance to go to a personal appearance don't pass it up. June is a fantastic entertainer and a great personality to raise awareness.

 

[dc2k08]

I wonder if they'd ever write it into a storyline.

 

[SpaceCadet]

Yay Dot! This has brightened my bleary, hungover Sunday

She is probably the smoking icon in the UK, teehee!

 

[tribalmasters]

What an awesome story! I wonder if she has a penstyle and what flavours she vapes! She must top off her carts or drip if she has a Screwdriver surely!!

 

[Caesarea]

What an awesome story! I wonder if she has a penstyle and what flavours she vapes! She must top off her carts or drip if she has a Screwdriver surely!!

Would be great if she could talk some other celebs into revealing a little of their vaping!

 

[Nick O'Teen]

Excellent - fame at last! Who needs Obama's endorsement when we've got Dot Cotton?

 

[Angela]

I believe it was Jason at TW who sent her an e-cig to try in the first place!

 

[chief druid]

i think i've stumbled upon another celebrity .... he sent me a pm about trying his screwdriver (oo er!!) after i put a post about it probably not being any better than my dura .. the pm's went back and forth and when i mentioned he looked like a someone famous i never got a relpy ...

 

[Caesarea]

Well Druid, he prolly realised he was late for a film shoot or summat.

 

[chief druid]

lol ... if that was a way of getting some info out of me then ok ...he's not a film star .. he's a presenter and he's coming with in 40 miles of me at the end of the month .... bit gutted really i could of tried a screwdriver and met a famous person

 

[Caesarea]

lol ... if that was a way of getting some info out of me then ok ...he's not a film star .. he's a presenter and he's coming with in 40 miles of me at the end of the month .... bit gutted really i could of tried a screwdriver and met a famous person

Imagine, Druid, if there was a Trog night at the Ritz...or wherever the Harry and William set go....the place would be alive with celebs.

But then is that what we'd like to see photos of the next day???

 

[frogbmth]

If its Craig Doyle he's mine

 

[Caesarea]

If its Craig Doyle he's mine

If it's Jeremy Paxman he's all yours too...

 

[frogbmth]

I would actually love to spend some time with Jeremy but for a diffeent reason, I bet he can hold excellent conversation.

 

[chief druid]

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[tribalmasters]

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[Caesarea]

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See...the Paxman effect...