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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 237719" data-attributes="member: 5138">I think it's a mix of both - she's nearly blind and in her early 90s - she was hardly going to be given romance of the year or gangster storylines......Seems to be similar to what happens to many old soap actors who refuse to leave when they probably should. Producers can't really use them as there worried they might have to off for health reasons, actor gets frustrated at lack of story-lines and the two just give up on it. It's the ones who are happy background drifting that  tend to stay the longest, June seemed okay with that for a while but has lost that will. There's hundreds of examples of this.</blockquote>