Carry On Bouncing.

"Why is your bum so hard? Do you leave it out at night?
Fenella Fielding to Kenneth Willams during the filming of '...Screaming'.

I've always been slightly bewildered by the attention given over the years to Barbara Windsor's bust. Constant reference is made to it and Barbara herself perpetuates the 'myth' of her large assets. The fact is that she has never been more than averagely endowed in this department. She is of course by no means flat chested, but in all honesty there's not much there. Take a look at the overwhelming evidence. In the films where we do get a glimpse of her 'bits' it is obvious to all that she is only about average with regards to her natural 'gifts'. In ...Abroad', '...Henry', '...Dick', '...Again Doctor' and (of course most famously) in '...Camping' if you actually watch the 'reveal' closely you can see that she has 'nothing to write home about'. Peter Rogers or Gerald Thomas (I can't remember which) commented during the filming of '...Again Doctor' that the 'Bristol's Bouncing Baby Food' gag would have to go (although it stayed) when he saw Barbara topless. In the films we're relentlessly drawn to Barbara's bust "Ooh what a lovely lookin' pear/pair" et al, and I would imagine that that the public forever associate Barbara with her bosom.
But what is this association built on? Not reality, that's for sure. It's built on repetition, if you hear something often enough you start to believe it. If you are told time and time again that something is true then you eventually believe that it simply must be. You can find the word 'bra' twice in Barbara's name - I believe that she needs neither :-). I don't of course lie awake at night thinking about this, but it is always something that's astounded me (much in the same way people believing that Wendy Richard can act!!!) You may well be reading this and be tutting or mouthing words like heresy or sacrilege, if so then put your keyboard where your mouth is and let your thoughts be known.