Kat gets back with Moon... as Shane tells how he made real lover say 'yes'

Be my other 'alf!

By Polly Graham

LOVESTRUCK Alfie Moon gets down on bended knee to beg Kat: "Let's get divorced—and married again."

As our exclusive pictures show, EastEnder Alfie finally makes his mind up about the Slater sistersand chooses wild Kat over timid Little Mo.

Shane Richie, who plays the Walford romeo, revealed: "Alfie sees Kat sitting on the back of a truck cheerily singing The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow and realises she is the girl for him. He likes the free spirit in Kat.

"But, of course, in true Albert Square style the course of true love doesn't run smoothly. Alfie has to break his decision to Little Mo.

"He tells her he's decided to give it another go with Kat and, typical Little Mo, she understands and gives him her blessing."

And Shane revealed that he used Alfie's romantic streak to plan his own proposal to real-life lover Christie Goddard.

Speaking for the first time about how he ambushed Christie at her surprise 26th birthday party, Shane said: "I did an Alfie-style proposal."

He kneeled before her, wrote, "Will you marry me?" in icing on her cake, and topped it all off with a £7,500 ring.

"Christie is always saying I should be more romantic like Alfie, so I was," he laughed.

"That's the way he would have done it."

Shane, whose proposal to Kat will be screened on September 8, leaves EastEnders after three years in October, but not before filming an explosive Christmas storyline.

The 41-year-old star quit after being offered a contract with Steven Spielberg's company DreamWorks. He has signed for a movie alongside Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman and John Cleese to be filmed next year and is already rehearsing the lead for Scrooge, The Musical, which starts at the end of the year.

Shane explained: "Any actor who says they would refuse the call from the States is lying. This is my big chance. If I don't take it now, it could never come again."

Not bad for the man dismissed "as only a ****ing Redcoat" by co-star Steve McFadden.

His comments were revealed in our story about McFadden's dogging antics with ex-love Angie Bostock.

The embarrassed star gave a grovelling apology to Shane, who brushed it off and quipped: "For a start I was a (Pontin's) Blue Coat. And I always make fun of myself."

But as Shane's career takes off he might have to take time out from making movies—to start making babies with Christie.

Broody

She's been getting broody after seeing the tots of Shane's co-stars Jessie Wallace, who plays Kat, and Kacey Ainsworth—Little Mo.

He said: "Jessie and Kacey's babies are making Christie very broody." But there won't be much chance of a little Richie on the way for a while. "I just don't even have time for trying at the moment," insisted Shane.

"We don't even have time in the morning for a quickie, I tell you!"

Despite the added baby pressure, he's delighted to have pal Jessie back at work after maternity leave. He beamed: "We get on brilliantly. It's great because she brings baby Tallulah in. I sit and play with her when Jessie is in make-up. She's a total sweetheart."

So who's broody now, Shane?