Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) feels bold in EastEnders next week and decides to tell Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) how he really
feels about her.
Alfie has been living with Kat for a while, but they chose this arrangement to create stability for the twins and
Tommy (Sonny Kendall).
Naturally though, spending so much time together has caused Kat and Alfie to grow closer.
Alfie has also been supporting Kat through the abuse storyline involving violent Tommy. After learning the teen had been hitting his mum, Alfie confronted Tommy in an attempt to stop his behaviour, but things only got worse.
One evening, Tommy lashed out so badly, he ended up trashing the flat and burning Freddie’s (Bobby Brazier) arm. It resulted in a very worried Jean (Gillian Wright) calling social services, who then allowed Tommy to live with foster carer Zack Hudson (James Farrar) while the situation gets dealt with.
Coming up, Kat is feeling anxious about her upcoming meeting with social services but continues to blank Jean and Stacey (Lacey Turner) after they refused to take Tommy in.
After Alfie steps in, he gets Stacey and Jean to agree to a chat with Kat in the pub. However, when she arrives, she’s furious to discover she’s been hoodwinked.
Thankfully, Alfie gives an impassioned speech and the difficult dynamic between Kat, Stace and Jean is destroyed.
Kat and Alfie: A complex EastEnders love story
On-off EastEnders couple Kat Slater and Alfie Moon have a long and complicated history, which began when they were part of a will-they-won’t-they storyline while working behind the bar of the Queen Vic in 2002.
After finally getting together, they tied the knot on Christmas Day 2003, but were ripped apart a year later by Kat’s jealous ex, gangster Andy Hunter (Michael Higgs), who threatened to kill Alfie unless Kat slept with him.
Realising their feelings for one another were still there, they gave their marriage another shot and left Walford for pastures new at the end of 2005.
Five years later, they made a bombshell comeback when it was revealed Kat had been having an affair with Alfie’s cousin Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd) and was pregnant with his son.
They eventually reconciled, with Alfie agreeing to bring Tommy up as his own. However, they were heartbroken when their baby ‘died’ – before it was later revealed Ronnie Mitchell had actually swapped their baby with her son James, who had died from cot death.
After a joyous reunion with baby Tommy, the pair were torn apart again when Kat’s subsequent affair with Derek Branning (Jamie Foreman) was exposed.
But a reconciliation eventually followed – as did their twin sons Bert and Ernie – before Kat and Alfie swapped the Square for Spain in 2016 after winning big on the lottery.
Two years later, a broke Kat returned to Walford having split from Alfie again, after cheating on him. When he later followed home, the couple had a short-lived reunion before Alfie was revealed as the father of Kat’s cousin Hayley Slater’s (Katie Jarvis) baby daughter Cherry.
With their relationship in tatters, Alfie did a bunk from Walford in 2019 after scamming £50k out of Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), who Kat later went on to have an unlikely relationship with.
When Alfie returned to Albert Square again three years later, he sabotaged Kat’s wedding to Phil, but it wasn’t enough to split them up and they rescheduled their nuptials.
However, after Kat discovered Phil had cheated on her with Emma Harding (Patsy Kensit), the pair split and she moved in with Alfie.
Later, Freddie picks up on the chemistry between the duo and pulls Alfie aside for a chat. He ends up admitting he still has feelings for Kat, and is pushed to do something about it.
In the week, during the meeting with social services, Alfie says they’d really like to get Tommy back for Christmas. The session is difficult and tense, but Alfie is actually able to get through to his son a little, and things conclude on a more positive note.
