{"id":723766,"date":"2026-08-02T02:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:53:13","slug":"eastenders-icon-shane-richie-is-due-in-court-next-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723766\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders icon Shane Richie is due in court next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 62-year-old actor, best known for playing Alfie Moon, is scheduled to appear at Colchester Magistrates\u2019 Court on September 9 on a charge of drink-driving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police said the arrest followed reports of a suspected drink-driver in the Church Langley Way area of Harlow shortly before 11.20pm on Wednesday, July 29.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers attended the scene and arrested a man, and a charge of drink-driving was later authorised against Shane Roche, 62, of Tadworth, Surrey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26428689.police-chased-richard-hammond-three-1m-mansions-court-hears\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police chased Richard Hammond to three \u00a31m mansions court hears<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Richie first came to prominence after working as a Pontins bluecoat and stand\u2011up comedian before moving into television game shows and sketch comedy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He joined EastEnders in 2002, with his character Alfie Moon quickly becoming one of the BBC soap\u2019s most popular figures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His on\u2011off partnership with Kat Slater is regarded as one of soap\u2019s best\u2011known double acts and has seen him appear in more than a thousand episodes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Away from Albert Square, Mr Richie has fronted prime\u2011time TV shows, appeared in major stage musicals and pursued a parallel career as a recording artist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26428632.rock-legend-offers-help-jeremy-clarksons-farm-cotswolds\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rock legend offers help to Jeremy Clarkson&#8217;s farm in the Cotswolds<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He also has strong links to Oxford\u2019s theatre scene, having performed at the New Theatre in 2006 in a production of Scrooge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More recently, he appeared in the city in 2025 as part of the Prat Pack, bringing a mix of music and comedy to local audiences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show teams him with fellow entertainers Bradley Walsh, Brian Conley and Joe Pasquale, who bill themselves as a tongue\u2011in\u2011cheek take on the classic Rat Pack.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their 2025 tour stopped at the New Theatre Oxford on George Street for a one\u2011night date on 22 May, mixing big\u2011band standards, comedy and stories from their decades in showbusiness.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The New Theatre was one of a string of venues on the national run, giving city audiences a chance to see Mr Richie perform live alongside his long\u2011time friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 62-year-old actor, best known for playing Alfie Moon, is scheduled to appear at Colchester Magistrates\u2019 Court on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}