EastEnders actors Jessica Wallace and Shane Richie are confused over Kat and Alfie's storyline

'It seems a little bit ridiculous that she did not know she had a son'

Kat and Alfie in Eastenders (BBC)

In one of the recent Eastenders storylines, Jessica Wallace’s character Kat discovers she had a son while she was ‘out of it’, meaning she never knew she actually had the child.

With her husband Alfie Moon – played by Shane Richie – Kat is set to head off to Ireland to find her son in the next part of the ridiculous plot. If you’re slightly confused, don’t worry too much, as the actors themselves have admitted they’re not sure what’s going on either.

“It seems a little bit ridiculous that she did not know she had a son. I am trying to justify this,” Wallace told The Mirror’s Sunday People.

“She must have been so out of it, she did not know she had another child. He gets adopted and moves to Ireland and then Kat and Alfie go to Ireland to look for him.”

This isn’t the first time Alfie and Kat’s story has left the pair baffled. In 2011, there was the now infamous ‘cot swap’ story in which Ronnie Mitchell swaps her dead son with Kat and Alfie’s child.

“That turned into a farce, for want of a better word, because it became like a baby swap story. It split the audience,” Richie said at the time.

“We spent time with couples who had sadly lost children and we did our research. Doing that was tough as we have both got children. We put our heart and soul into that to play the truth.

“Who would ever move into Albert Square? Someone gets murdered every Christmas and there is an illegitimate baby born.”

In other recent Eastenders news, Dame Barbara Windsor has announced she will be making a final departure from the soap, as it is revealed her famous character Peggy Mitchell will be killed off by the show’s writers.