EastEnders star Ross Kemp has paid tribute to his onscreen mum Barbara Windsor following her death aged 83. The actor, who played Peggy Mitchell's son Grant Mitchell in the BBC One soap, joined his former colleagues in honouring the TV legend, who died on Thursday after a battle with Alzheimer's.
He wrote: "Dame Barbara Windsor, the woman who always had time for everybody, has sadly left us. "I will miss Bar always. My thoughts are with her husband Scott, who could have done no more and who stayed strong for her to the very end." Ross spent years working with Barbara on the show, playing her tough guy son Grant alongside Steve McFadden as his brother Phil.
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