EastEnders’ Shane Richie says he once had a drug-fuelled orgy with six Essex girls

EastEnders star Shane Richie has opened up about his sordid sexual past — including how he once indulged in a drug-fuelled orgy with six Essex girls.

The actor - who has played Alfie Moon in the BBC soap since 2001 - also told of bedding older women for money and having a threesome with a mother and daughter.

Shane, 57, spent his late teens working at Pontins Holiday Park on the Isle of Wight, and boasted of bedding hundreds of women.

The I'm A Celeb star, who lost his virginity aged just 12, started working as a blue-coat when 16.

He claimed he could bed a different girl every day if he wanted to.

Shane said: “It wasn’t a thousand, but it could have been.”

Recalling his orgy, he said: “One week in July a group of six girls came down from Chelmsford they called themselves the Sexy Six and they were all blonde.

“They invited me to a club. I said I’d bring some mates along, but they told me I should come on my own.”

He says that at the club they offered him a tab of what he says he presumed was speed.

Shane knew it was supposed to give you energy and make you high — but it just made him extremely randy.

So he went with the women to their holiday chalet and things got saucy.

He said he ended up in a room alone with one girl he had had his eye on all night.

They were kissing and cuddling and then he noticed another girl had joined them on the bed.

Writing in his 2004 autobiography Rags to Richie: The Story So Far he says he was happily taking it in turns kissing both of them when one told him that another of the girls wanted him to kiss her too.

He walked into the other room to find all four of them were sitting there naked.

They were smoking a joint and drinking wine — and two were kissing each other while another was singing.

Most of his clothes came off and before he knew it he was being passed around from girl to girl.

The twice-married star, who has five kids, described it as being like an X-rated tag match.

But he says it stopped being a turn-on when there were six — because there was no way he was going to please them. But he added that did not stop them all having a fantastic night.

The girls gradually fell asleep one by one, leaving him alone with just one of them 

Shane said he felt used and abused the next morning — but still loved every minute of it.

The cheeky actor later tells of moonlighting as a gigolo for £20 — his week’s wages — with wealthy women in their 50s.

He revealed one used to pick him from the holiday camp in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes before taking him for dinner and giving him expensive champagne and buying him clothes.

But he said it never felt strange or sleazy because they were lonely women who simply wanted company. 

He insists that he enjoyed it and they enjoyed it so there was no harm in it. He still has fond memories of his nights with them — and hopes they do too.

Rampant Shane also managed to have a threesome with a mother and her daughter, after he chatted up the pair at a bingo night thinking they were sisters.

Only when he went back to their chalet did he realise their relationship.

And he said he was then in a hurry to finish just so he could go and tell his mates about it.

He did just that and was parading around in front of his pals with a big grin on his face.