EastEnders’ Dot Branning confesses to Patrick Trueman that she fears she’s going blind

THE First Lady of Walford made her shocking revelation to her friend, after struggling to read a passage from her beloved Bible.

Dot Branning nee Cotton is as much a part of Albert Square as The Vic and the market. So what would it mean to the long serving character, played by June Brown, if she actually lost her sight?

Could it mean her days gossiping and chain-smoking her way round Walford are soon to be over?

Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker) has been concerned over Dot’s recent reclusive behaviour.

After failing to turn up at the Vic for a sherry, he decided that enough was enough and stormed over to No.25, determined to get some answers.

Dot tried to palm Patrick off by declaring that she was scared of Halloween in E20. And after reeling off several spooky incidents from Albert Square past – Stacey’s run in with Fatboy’s sound system, Max getting mowed down by his own daughter and Sharon’s long –forgotten fiancé, Tom The Fireman, being killed in a Halloween blaze – we were beginning to think she had a point.

“Bad things happen on this day,” she told Patrick. And she’s not wrong.

But there was no pulling the wool over Patrick’s eyes when he noticed Dot struggling to read the words in her Bible.

“Now look what you’ve done,” the chain-smoking matriarch fumed, flinging the holy book down. “You’ve got me all in a tizz. I need a cuppa tea.”

Detective Trueman quickly pounced on the discarded Bible and discovered the bookmark was upside down.

Later, Dot confided that she was scared she was going blind. “You couldn’t even see the words could you?” Patrick pressed.

“I think I’m going blind,” she finally admitted before flinging Patrick out on his ear and breaking down.

We even got a rare point of view shot when Dot looked back into her home after booting her friend out. And yes, it very much looks like Dot is losing her vision.

So, could this be the beginning of the end for one of Walford’s biggest icons?

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