Legendary 00s EastEnders couple engaged after romantic proposal
Love is in the air for Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) and Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) next week, as the much-loved EastEnders couple are engaged.
It’s about time these two had some happiness, right?
The chain of events kicks off when shamed Harvey Monroe (Ross Boatman) looks for a new business venture in the wake of his sacking.
As viewers of the BBC One soap know, Kat gave him his marching orders from the cab office when she discovered that he was cheating on her relative Jean (Gillian Wright) with Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth).
Harvey reckons he’s struck gold when he sets his sights on a sleek new limo from an old mate, Cheeky.
Unfortunately his dreams are soon crushed when Kath’ admits that her bank balance won’t stretch for the new motor.
Kat can’t help but snipe at the pair’s apparent bliss, only for Alfie to step in and stop her. There’s only so much Slater animosity he can take!
Undeterred, Harvey tries to sweet-talk some of Kat’s drivers into stumping up cash for his scheme. When she catches wind of his scheming, Kat promptly derails his pitch.
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.
An unusually sympathetic Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington) then offers Harvey a few pointers, and he boldly asks Kat to join forces as business partners.
Furious by his suggestion, she declines and announces she’s going to launch her own limo operation.
Kat and Alfie waste no time plotting their rival venture: Kat meets Cheeky to haggle over the limo’s price tag, but he demands more cash up front.
Desperate for the money, she corners ex-husband Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) for a cough up of their divorce settlement.
After signing on the dotted line at the eleventh hour, Cheeky drops a bombshell – she must also take on his mysterious silent partner.
Meanwhile, Alfie dreams up a fake wedding photoshoot to advertise their chauffeur service, and confides in Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) that he’s itching to pop the question to Kat and cement their relationship once again.
Back at the flat, he gets down on one knee to pop the question – and Kat says yes!
On cloud nine, the couple gear up for a combined stag and hen do. Kat’s ecstatic when Kim unveils the hilarious “hag” party theme, but the celebrations could well be derailed by a disturbing discovery she makes on the family computer.
What has Kat found?
