EastEnders favourite Alfie Moon was originally brought into the BBC soap opera for a romance with Peggy Mitchell.
Bosses wanted him and the pub landlady, who was played by the late Barbara Windsor, to have an age-gap relationship like the one in classic movie The Graduate that starred Dustin Hoffman and the late Anne Bancroft.
But when they saw how well actor Shane Richie, now 58, got on with co-star Jessie Wallace, now 50, they decided to make Alfie and her character Kat Slater an item instead.
