Shane, 51, and 43-year-old Jessie play everybody’s favourite EastEnders couple Alfie and Kat Moon. However Shane confessed that phone hacking almost drove them apart for good.
He said that he and Jessie went through a phase of not trusting each other due to their private phone conversations being used in newspaper stories.
Unaware of how the papers were getting their information, both became convinced the other was selling stories.
Appearing at the on-going trial at London’s High Court yesterday, Shane said: “That impacts a lot on shows like EastEnders when you are working so close.
“You end up just not talking to each other because you end up not trusting each other.
“After a while, me and Jessie didn’t speak for five years because she didn’t trust me and I didn’t trust her because we both thought we were selling each other down the river with stories, which it turned out of course wasn’t true.”
Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) published stories between 2003 and 2005 about Shane that they obtained thorough illegal phone hacking.
MGN has accepted this and will pay damages to Shane, among other TV stars and celebrities.