Alfie Moon made a surprise comeback to EastEnders this week (Thursday 24 May), in one of the soap’s best kept secrets.
BBC viewers were left in shock when pregnant Hayley Slater sloped off to meet her ‘new man’ and knocked at a hotel room…
Only for Alfie to open the door!
But why is he back? And for how long?
Read more: EastEnders fans shocked as Alfie Moon returns – but is he Hayley’s baby daddy?
Shane Richie joined today’s Good Morning Britain and provided an insight into his character’s return, revealing he even kept the comeback a secret from his own mother!
He said: “My mum bless her, rang me last night, if you know my family, all from Dublin, she said, ‘Shane, I can’t believe you didn’t tell me Alfie’s back now, come on!'”
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Speaking of the hush-hush storyline, he revealed: “We said right, we’re going to bring back Alfie for these particular storylines – tonight is the big reveal – we can’t tell anybody.
“I was snuck in. Jessie’s [Jessie Wallace] one of my best friends, I couldn’t even tell her.”
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He continued: “All the cast got a script and they had this moody name in it, I can’t remember what it was – like Richard or Robin or something – and everyone’s going, ‘Who’s this Hayley’s boyfriend?’ and no one guessed.
“Jake Wood text me, Steve McFadden… are you coming back? I said, ‘No, I’m away filming Benidorm’. Of course, I wasn’t.”
Refusing to comment on whether Alfie really is Hayley’s boyfriend, he simply said that Friday’s episode (25 May) will finally reveal the “backstory” about why Kat and Alfie aren’t together anymore.
He added: “There is a big story to be told and tonight we set the seeds for that story. Alfie kind of throws a spanner in the works – the repercussions of tonight’s episode will carry on.”
He said: “I’d like to think he’s [EastEnders boss John Yorke] got plans in the future for Alfie. It’s never the actor’s decision. There’s stories to be told and fingers crossed they’ll bring Alfie back to tell those stories.”
Tune in tonight at 8pm on BBC1 to discover what REALLY happened between Kat and Alfie.
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