Alfie Moon is an iconic EastEnders character, and Shane Richie who portrays the happy-go-lucky cheeky chappy is equally as famous and loveable.
Known nationally as Shane Richie, his real name is actually Shane Patrick Paul Roche, with the actor having been in the public eye since 1977.
Joining the cast of EastEnders in 2002, Shane took on the role Alfie Moon and fast became a much-loved character.
His relationship with Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) has been adored for years, but the pair went their separate ways for some time… until recently.
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Having been an on-and-off recurring character in the BBC One soap, the return of Alfie in recent weeks has been warmly welcomed by viewers.
It seems as though we know everything there is to know about Alfie’s love life… but what about the man behind the role?
Keep scrolling to discover everything we know about his love life from Coleen Nolan to his current wife.
Coleen Nolan
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Probably his most high-profiled relationship, Shane and Coleen were a total power couple for around a decade.
The loved-up couple met in 1986 and planned on a huge ceremony in the UK back in 1990 – but things didn’t quite go to plan.
Calling off a big ceremony and eloping to Florida, the pair feared that their wedding had become too big and too over-the-top.
“Shane pulled me to one side and said, ‘I can’t do this. I feel like we’re just being told to turn up on the day and it’s nothing to do with us’ so we cancelled it all and eloped and didn’t tell anybody,” said Coleen on Loose Women.
Despite welcoming two boys together – Shane Jr and Jake – things didn’t last for the showbiz power duo.
During their marriage, Shane and Coleen had many steamy moments, with one being in a Birmingham NCP car park, with Coleen making the steamy confession on Loose Women.
She said: “”I got there early for a concert and the car park was empty ‘cos we were there two hours before the concert.
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“We were chatting away… it was me and Shane I think… I think! No, it was definitely Shane.
“Then things happened. But when it was over the car park was full! We didn’t know because the windows had steamed up.”
She also admitted that she and Shane had filmed their own sex tape, leaving her sons mortified in the Loose Women audience as she said it was like “two sea lions that needed clubbing”.
Coleen joked she looked like an “albino whale” and told her panellists that the tape “only lasted two minutes”.
In 1996 things went sour for the couple when Shane moved to Manchester to play Danny Zuko in Grease, leaving Coleen and their two children down South.
In Shane’s autobiography, Rags to Riches, he admitted cheating on his wife with dancer and actress, Claire Taylor – who starred in the same show as the actor.
2017 saw Shane get candid to Daily Mail when he said: “By 1996 my ego had taken over. I was getting a police escort to nightclubs. I’d be thinking, I’m 30, I’ve got bad skin but all these girls are screaming for me outside.”
Adding: “I was lying to myself about the drinking and the women, thinking I was pulling the wool over the public’s eyes. I’d be on TV advocating monogamy while I was having an affair.”
Christie Goddard
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Shane married Christie in 2007 after meeting at a pantomime in 2001.
Speaking to The Evening Standard, Christie once revealed: “I first met him when he was in Jack and the Beanstalk in Wimbledon. I was in Cinderella in Croydon.
“A friend took me to meet him and there he was all in green tights and a little green suit.”
The pair share three children together, Mackenzie Blue, Lolita Bell and Romani-Skye Angel Shelley.
Shane isn’t the only star in their marriage, because Christie has a career of her own.
Christie has starred in The Last Dance, American Daylight and Hustle, as well as Jim Davidson’s Boobs In The Wood.
Alison Hall
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It was claimed in 2011 that Shane “cheated” on Christie with a young president of his fan club.
The Mirror reported that Alison Hall was allegedly “obsessed” with Shane and regularly spent her dinner money on buying tickets to see him perform on stage, but later became friends with him – much to her delight.
She alleged that Shane started seducing her when she was 20, with the pair having sex two years later in her family home.
The Mirror reports that Shane sent her messages with “demands for explicit photos behind the back of loyal wife Christie”.
In 2011, MailOnline reported that a spokesperson for Shane said: “Shane Richie and his wife Christie have been aware of these allegations for some time now and they remain fully united to each other and their family.”
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