Kat Slater
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A promotional image of Kat Slater
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| EastEnders character | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by |
Jessie Wallace Kate Peck (flashback) |
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| Duration | 2000–2005, 2010–2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 2003 18 September 2000 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 5217 25 January 2016 |
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| Created by | Tony Jordan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by |
John Yorke (2000) Kate Harwood (2005) Bryan Kirkwood (2010) |
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| Spin-off appearances |
Slaters in Detention (2003) East Street (2010) Redwater (2017) |
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| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Kat Moon (married name) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Barmaid Pub landlady Market trader |
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| Father | Charlie Slater |
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| Mother | Viv Slater |
| Sisters |
Lynne Hobbs Little Mo Mitchell Belinda Peacock |
| Husband | Alfie Moon (2003–2013, 2014–) |
| Sons | Luke Tommy Moon Bert Moon Ernie Moon |
| Daughters | Zoe Slater |
| Grandmothers | Mo Harris |
| Uncles | Harry Slater |
| Other relatives |
Stacey Slater Lily Branning Arthur Fowler Sean Slater Kyle Slater |
Kathleen "Kat" Moon (also Slater) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Jessie Wallace. She was also played by Kate Peck in a flashback in 2001. Kat is the daughter of Viv Slater and Charlie Slater (Derek Martin), and arrived with her sisters Lynne Hobbs (Elaine Lordan) and Little Mo (Kacey Ainsworth). Her daughter Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) is initially believed to be her sister as well until Kat reveals she was raped by her uncle Harry Slater (Michael Elphick) as a child. She later marries Alfie Moon (Shane Richie). It is later revealed that Kat also gave birth to a son, Zoe's twin brother. She appeared in the show from September 2000 to November 2004, then returned in May 2005 following a period of maternity leave. She left on 25 December 2005, and returned on 17 September 2010, to leave again in January 2012 and return on 7 June 2012. Wallace, alongside Richie, decided to take another break from the show and departed on screen on 22 May 2015. Kat returned for a short stint on 25 December 2015 and departed again on 25 January 2016 leading to the couple starring in a six-part spin-off series, Redwater, set in Ireland, which is due to air on BBC One in 2017.
Kat is described as "a bit of a floozy", "a bitch" and "very lazy". The EastEnders website says that as soon as Kat arrived in Walford with her "fake tan, heavy make-up and hoop earrings", viewers would know that Kat would bring a dose of "Viagra to the men of Albert Square". Richie revealed in an interview with This Morning that Kat and Alfie would be involved in an ongoing storyline, which he said is "going to be the biggest soap story in probably the history of soaps." At the end of 2010, Kat and Ronnie both give birth on the same day, but Ronnie's baby, James, dies and while Kat is in hospital and her baby, Tommy, is unattended, Ronnie swaps the infants. The storyline received over 6,000 complaints, making it the second most complained about EastEnders storyline. It was then decided to end the storyline earlier than originally planned.
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