ALFIE Moon is acceptable to marque a shocking Walford exit successful upcoming EastEnders scenes.
The quality - played by Shane Richie - bags a marque caller occupation requiring him to walk clip distant from Albert Square.
In scenes yet to air, Kat (Jessie Wallace) tells her sons that Alfie's landed the Manager's presumption astatine the Minute Mart.
As a result, however, the instrumentality favourite has headed disconnected connected a two-week grooming course.
Tommy (Sonny Kendall) is moody and upset, arsenic Alfie has forgotten astir their football plans.
However, Kat tries to reassure Tommy that Alfie hasn't abandoned him.
Meanwhile, Tommy's unruly behaviour in erstwhile episodes outgo his father's aged job.
Alfie has raised the teen since helium was a baby, although he's not the biologic father.
As of late, Tommy's spiralled retired of power and even punched Kat successful the tummy connected 1 occasion.
Kat asked Alfie to get progressive by taking a disciplinarian relation with Tommy.
He closed the bookies helium worked astatine aboriginal to person a heart-to-heart with his son, but mislaid his occupation successful the process.
Earlier this year, bosses revealed that determination would be a kid connected genitor maltreatment storyline betwixt Tommy and Kat.
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Soap shaper Chris Clenshaw said: “Kat is well-known successful Albert Square for her no-nonsense cognition and fiery temper, but this storyline volition research however Tommy manipulates Kat’s unequivocal emotion for her lad to exert his choler and elicit control.
“Jessie [Wallace] and Sonny’s [Kendall] performances person thoughtfully portrayed the analyzable realities of kid to genitor maltreatment with compassion and understanding, and the storyline volition show however Tommy’s behaviour effects their narration and the wider Slater-Moon household arsenic a whole.
“To guarantee we accurately and sensitively represent the realities of kid to genitor abuse, we person worked alongside Family Based Solutions, PEGS and NSPCC arsenic good arsenic different experts successful the field.”
Elsewhere, the BBC soap is besides acceptable to aerial much astir Alfie's prostate crab diagnosis and its consequences.
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Speaking connected the red carpet astatine the 2024 National Television Awards, Shane addressed what upcoming storylines helium was astir excited for.
He told The Sun Online: "Alfie playing the prostate cancer. Exciting is the incorrect word, but conscionable bringing that to the forefront of, you know, doing connected the British soap is truly important to the producers and to me.
"We're astir to screen the erectile dysfunction story, which I didn't deliberation we would do, but that ties successful with prostate cancer."
EastEnders airs connected BBC One and is disposable connected iPlayer.