Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) could be set to remarry ex-husband Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) in EastEnders next year.
Kat broke up from her last husband Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) at the beginning of the year when his sister Sam (Kim Medcalf) exposed his affair with Emma Harding (Patsy Kensit).
She was forced to move into the cramped Slater household, though twisted Nish Panesar (Navin Chowdhry) soon offered her free accommodation – whilst he was secretly planning get his hands on Phil’s business assets during her divorce settlement.
Alfie couldn’t bare to see the mother of his children homeless, so invited them in. Quickly, an old spark was reignited between the Walford power couple.
It had to happen, didn’t it?!
Soon after, Kat’s eldest Tommy (Sonny Kendall) began to physically abuse her and his younger siblings, and has since been taken into temporary foster care with Zack Hudson (James Farrar).
During a difficult meeting with social services, Alfie held Kat’s hand tightly and it became evident that there was still underlying feelings.
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, the pair enjoyed a kiss and following some encouragement from Jean (Gillian Wright), Stacey (Lacey Turner), Ian (Adam Woodyatt) and Freddie (Bobby Brazier), headed home to have the all important conversation.
Should they get back together again?
Some initial frostiness suggested a resounding no, but when a fire in the kitchen broke the ice, they playfully chased one another around the flat with an extinguisher.
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