Personal Life
Richie married Coleen Nolan in 1990 and together they had two sons, Shane Roche Jr and Jake Roche. They divorced in 1999.
He proposed to his fiancée Christie Anne Goddard at her 26th birthday party in April 2005, and on 23 April 2006 she gave birth to a boy, Mackenzie Blue. They got married on 21 July 2007. Christie gave birth to a daughter, Lolita Bell, on 28 July 2008. Another daughter, their third child together, was born on 27 April 2011 called Romani-Skye Angel Shelley.
In 2003, he released his autobiography Rags To Richie, which was a best-seller. In the book, he claims to have had sex with six girls in a chalet, during his time as a Pontin's Bluecoat and he broke the law by orchestrating ticket touts outside of Grease. He also claims to have given free tickets to the touts, who went on to sell them at a large profit for Richie.
Richie has recently become patron of Shinfield Players Theatre, an amateur theatre company in Reading, Berkshire taking the role from recently deceased Anton Rodgers. He made his first appearance in the audience on 11 July 2009 for the Youth Group production of Disco Inferno.
Richie is patron of the UK's Huntington's Disease Association.
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