The cleaning soap legend performed the enduring position for 21 years.
EastEnders legend Wendy Richard made a promise to her co-star in her will (Picture: BBC)
Following the dying of an EastEnders legend, nobody might have predicted what remaining want she left in her will. Wendy Richard was greatest recognized for portraying Pauline Fowler on the BBC cleaning soap, a task she performed for 21 years. She made her debut in the course of the cleaning soap’s first ever episode in 1985 and her remaining look in 2006, making her the second-longest-running authentic character to look constantly, behind Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt).
In October 2008, it was reported that Wendy had been identified with an aggressive type of breast most cancers. She had beforehand confronted the illness twice earlier than, first within the mid-Nineteen Nineties and once more in 2002. Wendy revealed the most cancers was terminal, having unfold to her kidneys and bones. Days later, she married her companion John Burns, her fourth husband, at The Chesterfield Mayfair Resort in London.
Simply 4 months after Wendy’s analysis was made public, it was introduced she had died aged 65. She handed away on the Harley Road Clinic in London together with her husband by her aspect.
Paying tribute to Wendy on the time, her agent Kevin Francis stated: “She was extremely courageous and retained her sense of humour proper to the top.”
Wendy wished for her ashes to be scattered together with her late terrier Shirley’s and John’s when he died. Whereas it was reported that Wendy was leaving her £2 million fortune to John, it additionally contained a touching promise to her co-star, Natalie Cassidy, who performed her daughter-in-law Sonia Fowler.
In her will, it was acknowledged that her fortune would go to Natalie within the occasion that John died inside 28 days of her dying. It was believed Natalie regarded Wendy as her “second mum”.
She additionally made appearances in BBC sitcoms The Possible Lads, The Newcomers, Up Pompeii! and Dad’s Military within the late Nineteen Sixties and early 70s.
Wendy additionally appeared in two Carry On movies alongside Barbara Windsor, famed for her position as Peggy Mitchell on EastEnders.
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