{"id":365755,"date":"2011-04-04T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/shane-ritchie-and-wife-christie-expecting-their-third-child\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:42:05","slug":"shane-ritchie-and-wife-christie-expecting-their-third-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/shane-ritchie-and-wife-christie-expecting-their-third-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Ritchie and wife Christie expecting their third child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"117.48214285714\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 9:42 AM on 4th April 2011<\/p>\n<p>He is soon to be reunited with his baby son when the controversial EastEnders cot death storyline comes to a dramatic end in two weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>And away from Albert Square, actor Shane Ritchie will have another reason to celebrate when his wife gives birth around the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Ritchie, 47, who plays Alfie Moon in the soap, and his wife Christie, are expecting their third child together &#8211; and their second daughter.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be Ritchie&#8217;s fifth child, as he has two sons &#8211; Shane Jr, 22, and Jake, 18 &#8211; from his previous marriage to Loose Women host Coleen Nolan.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2cb9998e664_468x653.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"653\" alt=\"The happy couple: Shane Ritchie and his wife Christie are expecting their third child together - a daughter - sometime this month\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The happy couple: Shane Ritchie and his wife Christie are expecting their third child together &#8211; a daughter &#8211; sometime this month<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He and Christie, who married in 2007, already have son Mackenzie Blue, four, and two-year-old daughter Lolita Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to Hello! magazine, Ritchie revealed that he and eight-months-pregnant Christie, 31, only decided to announce their news now to avoid it being caught up with his on-screen life.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I wanted to keep the two things separate. It was important to me. This is my life with Christie, whereas on screen people see me as Alfie Moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If people asked about Christie I said she\u2019d just put on a bit of weight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Alfie Moon is currently involved in a storyline that sees Ronnie Branning, played by Samantha Womack, swap her baby \u2013 the victim of cot death \u2013 with Tommy, the son of Alfie\u2019s wife Kat, played by Jessie Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Ritchie added: &#8216;People would keep asking me about the cot death storyline and it would have felt strange tagging on the end, &#8220;Oh, and by the way, we\u2019re expecting a baby&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And in an extraordinary coincidence, Christie is due to give birth around the same time that the controversial storyline comes to its dramatic climax.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"30\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3e1eedf9617_468x627.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"627\" alt=\"Reunited: Alfie Moon and wife Kat, played by Jessie Wallace, finally get their baby back after the baby swap plot comes to a dramatic end in two weeks time\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reunited: Alfie Moon and wife Kat, played by Jessie Wallace, finally get their baby back after the baby swap plot comes to a dramatic end in two weeks time<\/p>\n<p>Ritchie said: &#8216;I love being back at EastEnders and I think they\u2019ve<br \/>\nhandled the storylines brilliantly. I\u2019m really proud of the work we\u2019ve<br \/>\nall done.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But being pregnant, Christie said she couldn&#8217;t watch the scenes, but planned to in a few months time.<\/p>\n<p>She<br \/>\nsaid: &#8216;As I\u2019m sure any expectant mum will tell you, there are things<br \/>\nyou choose to avoid when you\u2019re pregnant. Obviously I wasn\u2019t<br \/>\ngoing to watch the moment when Ronnie\u2019s baby died. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know in a few<br \/>\nmonths I\u2019ll watch the episodes I missed because I\u2019ve heard how fantastic<br \/>\nthey are.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shane added: &#8216;We Christie and I love big families and had always talked about having another one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We haven\u2019t agreed on the name yet, but we are<br \/>\nnever going to chose anything traditional.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2cb9998e664_468x653.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1373131\/Shane-Ritchie-wife-Christie-expecting-child.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Shane Ritchie and wife Christie expecting their third child\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shane Ritchie and wife Christie expecting their third child<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 9:42 AM on 4th April 2011 He is soon to be reunited with his baby son when the controversial EastEnders cot death storyline comes to a dramatic end in two weeks time. And away from Albert Square, actor Shane Ritchie will have another reason to celebrate when his wife gives birth around the same time. Ritchie, 47, who plays Alfie Moon in the soap, and his wife Christie, are expecting their third child together &#8211; and their second daughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shane Ritchie and wife Christie expecting their third child - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/shane-ritchie-and-wife-christie-expecting-their-third-child\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shane Ritchie and wife Christie expecting their third child - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 9:42 AM on 4th April 2011 He is soon to be reunited with his baby son when the controversial EastEnders cot death storyline comes to a dramatic end in two weeks time. 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