Barbara Windsor turns 80 in August but the actress, who is the subject of a BBC One biopic tonight, has vowed never to retire.
Windsor stepped down from her role as Walford matriarch Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders last year but the Cockney star has no plans to give up acting.
"You try stopping her," her husband and manager Scott Mitchell told The Mirror newspaper. "I have asked Barbara to take things easier now in regards to acting and charity work in her 80th year. I keep telling her she has done her apprenticeship and can ease up and enjoy life a bit more.
"But she made it clear in no uncertain terms that she will never fully retire and always be open to considering acting offers that may come her way." Mitchell added.
Jaime Winstone and Samantha Spiro play the young and older actress respectively in the new BBC biopic, which is entitled Babs.
The screenplay for the feature-length drama was written by former EastEnders writer Tony Jordan and includes cameos by Windsor.
We meet Windsor as she prepares to perform in a theatre one cold evening in 1993. She recounts the events that have shaped her life and career over the fifty year period from 1943 to 1993.
In the film, the actress contemplates her lonely childhood, her evacuation during World War II, and how the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II inspired her to change her name from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor.
The drama also explores Windsor's complicated relationship with her father, John Deeks, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, and and how she captured the attention of noted theatre director Joan Littlewood, who is played by Zoë Wanamaker in Babs.
The film also stars Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) as the actress's father, while Leanne Best (Cold Feet) plays her encouraging and kindly mother Rose.
The drama also recalls her `blonde bombshell' role in the Carry On films many years before EastEnders made her a household name with modern audiences.
Babs can be seen at 8.00pm on BBC One.
