Shane Richie takes swipe at Loose Women in front of ex Coleen Nolan on This Morning

EastEnders icon Shane Richie appeared connected This Morning to sermon his latest storyline arsenic Alfie Moon but the interrogation took a crook arsenic helium took made a cheeky excavation a Loose Women

Shane Richie couldn't assistance but instrumentality a cheeky swipe astatine Loose Women successful beforehand of his ex-wife Coleen Nolan during his quality connected This Morning.

The EastEnders fable spoke to hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley astir his upcoming storyline during Wednesday's (November 6) occurrence of the ITV daytime show.

As Shane hinted that his quality Alfie Moon could beryllium astir to get unneurotic with ex Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace), the histrion made a gag astir Loose Women, the amusement Coleen stars on.

After being welcomed to the workplace by Ben, Shane said: "It was either This Morning oregon Loose Women and I lone ticker Loose Women present to find retired what I'm doing" earlier adding: "If you cognize you know". Ben near retired a chuckle and Shane pointed out: "You got it didn't you."

As the interrogation came to an end, Ben and Cat crossed to the Loose Women workplace to find retired what was coming up connected the programme. Host Charlene White reassured Shane that wouldn't beryllium talking astir him connected the amusement arsenic she stood adjacent to co-stars Coleen, Judi Love and Brenda Edwards. Shane could beryllium heard saying: "What americium I doing today?" and "I recognise her" arsenic the broadcasted returned to This Morning.

Coleen and Shane tied the knot successful 1990 and stock 2 sons Shane Jr and Jake. They divided successful 1999 aft their matrimony ended successful heartbreak aft some parties cheated. The mates archetypal crossed paths successful 1986 and planned a expansive wedding 4 years aboriginal but eloped to Florida astatine the past infinitesimal erstwhile their plans went awry.

In 1996, Shane relocated to Manchester to instrumentality connected the relation of Danny Zuko successful Grease, leaving Coleen and their 2 children successful the south. In an excerpt from her 2009 autobiography, Coleen revealed that was the infinitesimal she began to fishy thing wasn't right.

At an manufacture enactment for 1 of Shane's musicals, her suspicions were aroused erstwhile she noticed an charismatic brunette pistillate crossed the room. "At the after-show party, I tin distinctly retrieve examining this 1 girl. There were loads of radical determination but she conscionable stood out. She had truly agelong acheronian hairsbreadth and was wearing a skin-tight achromatic dress," Coleen reminisced.

"Well, it indispensable person been pistillate intuition due to the fact that that turned retired to beryllium the miss Shane had an matter with." In his memoir, Rags to Riches, Shane confessed to being unfaithful to Coleen with dancer and histrion Claire Taylor.

He disclosed: "I was lying truthful overmuch that I couldn't retrieve which communicative I'd told to each of them. And I'd prevarication to screen up the lies."

This Morning airs weekdays connected ITV astatine 10am