EastEnders icon Anita Dobson is best known for her role as Angie Watts, the first landlady of The Queen Vic, when the BBC soap debuted 40 years ago.
Anita, 75, portrayed the emotionally exhausted and battling alcoholic Angie from 1985 to 1988, but has always remained a symbol of the BBC programme.
With Angie behind the bar, there was never a dull moment, especially with her deceiving her husband Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) and being the loving adoptive parents to Sharon (Letitia Dean).
In a bid to break up Den and his high-class mistress Jan, Angie lied to Den that she was terminally ill and tragically had six months left to live.
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