Shane Richie is a British actor, comedian, television presenter and singer.
He is known for EastEnders (1985), Flushed Away (2006) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
Richie has had success in musicals, appearing in such musicals as Boogie Nights and the 1993 London revival production of Grease.
He released two albums, The Album in 1997 and Once Around the Sun in 2000 to limited commercial response, and had a number 2 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 2003, with his Children in Need cover version of Wham!’s “I’m Your Man”.
He made his first appearance in the audience on 11 July 2009 for the Youth Group production of Disco Inferno.
Richie is patron of Shinfield Players Theatre, an amateur little theatre in Reading, Berkshire, taking the role of Anton Rodgers who died in 2007.
How many wives has Shane Richie had?
Shane Richie has been married twice.
Richie’s first wife was Coleen Patricia Nolan, an English singer, television personality, and author.
The duo married in 1990 in a gazebo by a lake in Orlando, Florida but divorced in 1999.
Shane Richie and Coleen share two children; Shane Roche Jr. (born 1988) and Jake Roche (born 1992).
Following Richie’s divorce from Coleen, he married actress Christie Goddard.
Shane Richie met Christie Goddard through friends after a performance of his pantomime “Jack and the Beanstalk” in December 2001 and got engaged in April 2005.
Shane Richie and Christie tied the knot on July 21, 2007.
They have three children; Mackenzie Blue Roche (born April 23, 2006), Lolita Bell Roche (born July 28, 2008) and Romani-Skye Angel Shelley Roche (born April 27, 2011).