He played a snarling scooter-mad Mod in The Who’s Quadrophenia and rocked Glastonbury twice as a guest of headline Britpop stars Blur.
But actor Phil Daniels says the wildest person he has ever worked with was June Brown – who played chain-smoking EastEnders busy-body Dot Cotton.
Phil, 61, who worked alongside June in Albert Square for two years, says: “June Brown is the greatest rebel of all time. “Smoking was banned everywhere and she would not have that.
She’d smoke where she liked. June’s a law unto herself. She says it as it is. That’s rare. It makes everyone laugh. And good on her.” June, 93, quit the soap in February, while Phil’s character Kevin Wicks died in a New Year’s Eve car crash in 2007.
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