EastEnders' Jaime Winstone says Barbara Windsor sent 'sign from above' over Peggy role
Five years after playing the late Dame Barbara Windsor in BBC biopic Babs, Jaime Winstone has stepped into her shoes once again.
The sign that Barbara sent Jaime was “a little blonde butterfly that kept coming in my garden”, she recalls, laughing. “I kept thinking, ‘That’s strange,’ as I’ve got a little dog and we don’t normally get too many butterflies because he goes for them. So that was my sign. I thought, that’s her. You know when you know.”
Barbara, who died in December 2020, played Mitchell matriarch Peggy in EastEnders from 1994 to 2010, with brief returns between 2013 and 2016. During that time, Peggy was a widow dealing with sons Phil and Grant and daughter Samantha. “The kids are younger, she’s trying to be a housewife, a good wife and a good mother all in one and keeping things together. As you see, the cracks start to show with the young Phil and Grant shifting from being boys to men.Part of Jaime’s transformation into a young Barbara/Peggy involved her costumes – including, of course, a bleach-blonde wig and 1970s fashion.
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