Bit of pot calling the kettle, but then again Kat never allowed a man to think they were the father when they weren't.
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Bit of pot calling the kettle, but then again Kat never allowed a man to think they were the father when they weren't.
fitting name for bothQuote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
fitting name for bothQuote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
Pot calling kettle springs to mind :pQuote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
i think ryan is kat's son and he is on the run in ireland and kat takes whitney with her and alfie to find him, whitney is lost on the show
Kat Moon's life was changed forever on EastEnders this week when she discovered that she had a long-lost son she knew nothing about.
Viewers became aware of the huge twist back in May when Kat visited the convent that she had given birth in as a teenager, and speculation has since been rife over who the man - who would now be in his 30s - could be.
Sean Slater was initially at the top of suspect list, with many viewers wondering if it could be related to that mysterious key that his sister Stacey wore around her neck.
Although the story behind the key has now been explained, many fans are still adamant that Sean will be unveiled as Kat's estranged child, in a twist that would be almost as huge as her being revealed as Zoe's mother back in 2001.
However, ever since Sister Ruth (June Whitfield) revealed that Kat's baby son was named Luke by the convent, another theory has started floating around.
Casting our minds back to when Stacey returned in February 2014, Matt Willis was cast as her then-boyfriend - also called Luke.
Although a return for Willis seems unlikely due to his Busted commitments later this year, the rumour mill has already gone into overdrive, with many believing he could fit the description of Kat's grown-up son.
While some are excited about this possibility, others are wondering whether EastEnders bosses have been inspired by Star Wars character Luke Skywalker!
The other theory, of course, is that an unknown actor will be cast as the estranged Slater member, and therefore be a character we have yet to be introduced to.
It has already been mentioned that the newborn was taken in by an Irish family, paving the way for Kat and Alfie's six part spin-off show in Ireland later this year.
Kat's turmoil will continue in tonight's episodes (January 7) airing at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on BBC One.
I'm sure i read somewhere that Luke was the name of the guy stacey was living with when she returned back on the screen....could this be THE Luke???
Yes, she lived with Luke Riley. Speculation has hit a high on social media. One viewer posted: "Sean Slater is definitely Kat´s son, it is so obvious because Sean and Zoe are the same age! #EastEnders" .. Will be interesting to see how this pans out :DQuote:
Originally Posted by inkyskin
if it were sean, brian and charlie would know so don't think him
maybe a newbie with a big fake oirish accent playing luke slater
if it were sean, brian and charlie would know so don't think him
maybe a newbie with a big fake oirish accent playing luke slater
Shane Richie confirms Kat and Alfie’s EastEnders spin-off will begin filming in April
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Shane Richie has confirmed when filming will begin on Kat and Alfie’s EastEnders spin-off.
The soapstar was appearing on The One Show when he said production would embark this April.
‘We start filming in Ireland literally straight after the play. We’re out there for three and a half, four months,’ Shane said.
‘We’re so excited. We know the story – we know Alfie’s got a brain tumour and Kat has a son. We don’t know where it’s being filmed.’
He added: ‘Tomorrow we’ve got a big meeting where we’ll be looking at scripts. We haven’t got a title for it at the moment, but all we know is that it’s gonna be massive.’
Kat and Alfie will travel to Ireland in search of her son after she learned that she didn’t just give birth to Zoe Slater when she was 13, but twins.
First the onscreen couple will appear on stage together for the first time in Peter James’ No.1 best-selling thriller The Perfect Murder.
Jessie and Shane do love a bit of drama!
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/13/shane-...april-5619368/
EastEnders' Kat and Alfie spinoff is coming together and it's now been revealed there's a "dark secret" at the centre of the storyline. :eek: Really? Who would have thought!! :D
Shane Richie and Jessie Wallace appeared on Irish chatshow The Late Late Show on Friday night (January 16), with Richie confirming he's read the first script for the series - which is set in Ireland.
"There's a whole new universe for Kat and Alfie," the actor explained. "I've managed to read the first script. I can't tell you where it's set, but it's all Irish cast and crew.
"But where we're going is absolutely beautiful. And it's a whole world where Kat and Alfie come into the first episode, we turn up in this village where there's a real dark secret.
"You want the audience to go: 'No Kat and Alfie, you shouldn't be there. You shouldn't be there...'"
Interesting. Speaking about EastEnders, Wallace said that she likes Kat and Alfie's offbeat storylines, and admitted that Kat having a long-lost son without knowing anything about it was a bit silly.
"[The stories are] completely bonkers!" she enthused. "That's what makes Kat and Alfie so interesting. They'd be boring, they wouldn't be interesting if they sat in front of a telly all day, reading the paper do you know what I mean?"
Laughing about Kat also having a son when she gave birth to Zoe, the actress continued: "I don't know what to say! Well, she was so out of it and obviously it was before she had a scan. And she didn't know she had twins. She just didn't know.
"Even though it seems a little bit ridiculous that she didn't know she had a son, but she was – I'm trying to justify it – she was completely out of it and didn't know she had another child."
On the infamous baby swap storyline from 2011, Richie added: "There was one storyline we played that at times, it felt like it split the audience and that was when we played the cot death.
"We did a lot of research about that and ultimately that turned into a bit of a farce, I suppose, for want of a better word. It became a baby swap story. But to play the whole cot death, we spent time with, sadly, couples who had lost children.
"And so we did our research and playing that was tough because we've both got children and we put our heart and soul into it."
Kat and Alfie's EastEnders spinoff will kick off filming in April, before airing in the autumn.
From what my mum says about the pethidine they gave her when she was having us she could have had twins and not know a thing.
EastEnders spoilers: Alfie and Kat Moon will NOT be returning after their spin-off
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EastEnders actor Shane Richie has revealed that his alter ego Alfie Moon and his wife Kat will not be returning to the main show in the near future following their spin-off series that will be set in Ireland.
The characters are about to depart Walford again to go in search of Kat’s long-lost son, a journey that will be documented in a six episode special to be broadcast this autumn.
But fans of the couple who were hoping that they would then come back to Albert Square are in for a disappointment.
The actor told This Morning: ‘We leave on screen and we’re not coming back as far as we know. That’s Kat and Alfie gone. We could come back but it all depends what happens in Ireland.’
Any minute now @itvthismorning
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— Shane Richie (@realshanerichie) January 20, 2016
Discussing the special, he revealed: ‘I can’t tell you how exciting it is. It’s a real, dark story. When I was reading it, I kept thinking half-way through that Kat and Alfie have to get out of this village but they don’t. It’s a stand alone drama and nothing to do with EastEnders except for that it’s Kat and Alfie. A whole new universe has been created.’
Filming for the spin-off commences in April.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/20/easten...n-off-5634185/
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Originally Posted by Dazzle
.. But unless they're bumped off then maybe, and then even if they are then it's possible.
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Originally Posted by Dazzle
.. But unless they're bumped off then maybe, and then even if they are then it's possible.
Yes, I think Shane means DTC has no plans to bring them back. Another EP might think differently of course. Alfie might even die of his brain tumour. (If so, hopefully we'll see a body so he can't be resurrected!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rear window
As someone who's not a fan of Kat and Alfie, I'm glad there's no plans for their return. I'm puzzled about why the EE team went to the trouble of retconning a son for Kat if he isn't coming to live in Albert Square though. :hmm:
That just does not make sense, as far as I know, they are still popular but might have lost some popularity when Kat had this stupid affair with Derek, which again did not make sense ... stupid storyline from start to finish as far as I am concerned. If they really are not meant to come back, for a long time at least, I hope that the spin-off will shed light on Kat´s son and a reunion ... then leave it at that .. I know it does not make for drama but surely most viewers would like to see a rare happy ending for once??
I don't know if they are popular with most viewers any more. I can't stand Alfie, and think Kat can be a good character - but she can also be intolerable. I've seen many similar opinions elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
Of course Shane could be lying about there being no plans to bring them back to keep the ending of the spin-off a surprise.
I agree -I think Alfie was dreadful from the start.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazzle
He always sounds to me as tho hes mocking
someone with certain difficulties- my opinon.
I can stand Kat when she gets a realistic story
- which is not often.
So I suppose they are a Soap producers/ SWs
idea of perfect couple.!!
Even my die-hard Southern rellies have/are going
off him!!
As for new universe ?? How self-important
can he get
I remember they used to be very popular indeed and I remember the viewers being excited when they were brought back.. as I said earlier, I think the storylines fore them have let them down, short term excitement maybe but not for me. Shame really. Will I miss them if they really don´t come back? No, to be honest, I would not, not many Slaters left and no more Moons ... maybe it is the right time to put an end to Kalfie or whatever they were called :)
But there's bigger - and more sinister - things ahead for the soap's beloved Kat and Alfie, if Shane Richie's comments are anything to go by.
Speaking to Digital Spy after the awards, Richie and co-star Jessie Wallace teased the upcoming spin-off series that will see their characters head to Ireland to search for Kat's long-lost son.
Viewers who are expecting to see the standard EastEnders formula with some Irish accents thrown in are in for a surprise, according to Richie.
He said: "It's a bit like Broadchurch meets The Wicker Man. I've read the first script - about a third of the way through I was going, 'No, Kat and Alfie, turn around, you should not be there'."
While the six-part series features two of Albert Square's most recognisable faces, the drama has "absolutely nothing to do with EastEnders", Shane added.
The pair also spoke about the "bittersweet" return of Ross Kemp as Grant Mitchell, when his character returns to see his dying mother Peggy, as Barbara Windsor says goodbye to the show for good.
Does this mean we will never see her son on Albert Square??? Never going to meet his other family?
The more I think about it, the more I realise it doesn't make sense that Kat won't return to Albert Square. Why go to the trouble of casting a new Belinda or writing in a secret son if she's gone for good?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
Yes it doesn't make sense unless Belinda is suddenly going to move to the square?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazzle
Yes it doesn't make sense unless Belinda is suddenly going to move to the square?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazzle
Belinda will never ( or would never) return to the Square as she married to move out, act posh and pretend she wasn't a slater??Quote:
Originally Posted by Rear window
Stacey needs someone around her so if Kat is gone and Jean and Big Mo won't return then Belinda could but she and Stacey don't seem very close
I think Kat and her son if alive need to come back to the main show
Ireland can put their mind at ease - Shane Richie has promised that the upcoming EastEnders Irish spinoff will be respectful to the country.
The last time the BBC soap went to Ireland in 1997, the episodes sparked controversy over their portrayal of Irish life. The BBC even issued an apology afterwards.
But Richie told the Irish Examiner that EastEnders won't be repeating the same mistakes.
"The kneejerk reaction was that, 'Oh, EastEnders are going to come over here and play the dopey card'. That's not the case," he said.
"The producer, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, is from a big Cork family. He wants to set the record straight."
Richie also revealed that numerous scenes from the tragic cot death storyline back in 2011 had to be cut and reshot.
"We've both got children, and you obviously tap into that when you are acting," he explained.
"There was a lot of stuff that didn't make it on screen. The funeral, which had a little coffin, was shot on a closed set and we just went to pieces. We were a mess.
"The producers watched and said they couldn't put it out. They felt it was too real. We were gutted - the whole thing had to be reshot."
EastEnders airs on BBC One.
EastEnders star Shane Richie wants Kat and Alfie Moon's upcoming spinoff show to be a returning series. :eek:
The popular Walford couple will take centre stage in their very own six-part drama later this year, which has the working title of Redwater.
Redwater will be set in Ireland after the Moons decide to move there to seek answers over Kat's long-lost son. Although only one series has been confirmed, Richie has high hopes for the project's long-term future.
"At the moment we are committed to one series, and like anything if it does well, we'd like to think it will be ongoing," he told the Daily Record. "With the storylines we've heard, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't a long runner. That's the plan.
"Kat and Alfie have set up in Ireland and will they stay there? I'd love to think I would spend three or four months of the year filming in Ireland and going out there with my family."
Kat and Alfie's exits from Walford were originally billed as a break from the show, but Richie and his on-screen wife Jessie Wallace have since appeared more coy about whether they'll actually be back.
And asked whether we could ever see the couple back running the Queen Vic again (what would Danny Dyer say?), Richie replied: "That's probably it now, unless something drastic happens and they say we need Kat and Alfie back to run the pub. They are coping fine without us."
Richie recently told Digital Spy that Kat and Alfie's show is "a bit like Broadchurch meets The Wicker Man".
He said last month: "I've read the first script - about a third of the way through I was going, 'No, Kat and Alfie, turn around, you should not be there'
Two years since it was first announced, the EastEnders spinoff Redwater will finally hit our screens and tell us what happened to Kat and Alfie after they left the Square.
The six-episode run will answer questions like 'who is Kat's son?', and ex-EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins, who was involved in the spinoff, says there are plenty more avenues to explore should the show get another series.
Speaking to The Sun, he said: "We've talked about who could come in for series two and I've always said that you could delve into Alfie's dad.
Alfie's actor Shane Richie chipped in to say: "Alfie's always believed that his mum and dad were killed, I said to Dom that they went into witness protection."
Dominic joked that that was exactly what happened and added: "I would bring Michael Crawford in as Shane's father. That would be a gift."
Dominic Treadwell-Collins also spoke to Digital Spy about the possibility of a second series (among many other things), stating that although he was no longer at the BBC, he's worked to set up a second run as best he can.
"Throughout the series, we have very carefully laid down secrets and hinted at other characters," he explained. "The end of this series will feel like a midpoint – not an ending.
"We leave it on the mother of all cliffhangers at the end of episode six."
Kat and Alfie: Redwater will begin on Thursday, May 18 at 8pm on BBC One.
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EastEnders star Shane Richie looks set to relaunch his music career after signing a brand new album deal.
The actor – who is known for his role as Alfie Moon in the BBC soap – has signed on the dotted line with Warner-owned label East West Records.
Shane's recording an Americana album inspired by his musical heroes and the contemporary country scene, which is set to be released in the autumn.
Speaking about the news, he said: "I've always been a huge fan of new country, so I'm really excited to have the opportunity to record this album.
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Shane is no stranger to the music industry, having already released two albums in 1997 and 2000.
In 2003, his Children in Need cover version of Wham's 'I'm Your Man' peaked at number two in the charts, while his son Jake Roche is the lead singer in popular band Rixton.
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More recently, fans have seen Shane star in EastEnders spinoff Redwater, which followed Kat and Alfie to Ireland in search of her long-lost son.
With currently no word on whether the series will be renewed, speculation has been rife over whether the Moons could return to EastEnders as part of new boss John Yorke's plans to turn the show around.
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ee announcement tonight is it the return of moon slater family
Thank you. I am completely underwhelmed by the news.....
i could be wrong and you could be overwhelmed :pQuote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
I missed the first half .. what was the announcement?
ian's ex mel returningQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
oh is that who it is. hadn't got a clue.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizann
Jessie Wallace returning as Kat
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ers-Early-2018
Pointless without Alfie ...Quote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
Given they've said she's returning without her kids, I think they've given the game away they'll follow later.
If not, hatchet job complete on Kat's character if it wasn't already.
Digital Spy version which says she's minus the kids: http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/east...returning-too/