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Kitty Wyatt (Akemi Otani) (Choy-Ling Man) 1999-2001
First Appearance (A.O): 3.9 (#149) Tuesday 19th October 1999
First Regular Appearance (C-L.M): 4.1 (#203) Sunday 1st October 2000
Last Regular Appearance: 4.25 (#227) Sunday 8th April 2001
Duration: EP: 149, 156 - 157, 176, 201, 203 - 212, 218 - 227 | SE: 3.9, 3.16 - 3.17, 3.36, 3.61, 4.1 - 4.10, 4.16 - 4.25
Last Seen: Leaving for Devon before the season's last game, giving Ray another chance after his affair with Lynda.
Wanting to provide for her poor family, Kitty heard of how escorts could earn vast amounts of money from the right clients, and found a way into this world by working on Thailand's Pattaya Beach. She soon learned it wasn't the world for her though, and escaped to Monaco where in the early 90's she met Ray Wyatt, who was a coach at AS Monaco Football Club. Kitty became an important part of Ray's life, even before they married she was able to keep his short fuse which often made him his own worst enemy in check. But Ray's anger management masked a deeper issue, and after leaving Monaco Ray nearly had a nervous breakdown. It was a return to his native Merseyside, and to coach where he began at Liverpool FC, that put Ray back on the right track.
After a couple of years in Liverpool, Ray is ready to leave the world of coaching and football, and he and Kitty set up home on their own farm in rural Devon, where in 1999 Kitty becomes pregnant. It is at this time that Ray's good friend from his time at Monaco, Luis Amor Rodriguez visits them with an offer to be his assistant manager at Harchester United. Ray at first turns Luis down about a return to football, not wanting to leave Kitty alone with the farm as her pregnancy goes on, but it is Kitty herself who convinces Ray it could be a good move for him. Ray takes the job and is back for the birth of their son William in mid-season. There is trouble for them both when a story of Kitty's past in Thailand is sold to the papers, and a furious Ray discovers it is caretaker manager Gordon Gallagher. Ray is appointed manager, which causes friction in his friendship with Luis, but impressively takes the team to the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup.
With Ray in the manager's seat, Kitty joins him in Harchester with William, setting up home at The Barrons. She becomes good friends with the other Harchester wives, notably Tash Parker and Lizzie Conlon. When the club holds a charity show 'Harchester Uncovered', Kitty is a support to Lizzie when she cannot go on stage, worried herself about her body having carried a child. But Kitty receives a rapturous applause when she models the underwear. Just before Christmas, Kitty learns her father is seriously ill in Thailand, and to Ray's anguish, she takes William away for an undetermined amount of time. With Ray without his family, and Lynda lonely after Luis married his childhood girlfriend, the two have a brief affair beginning on a trip to Paris to approach Monday Bandele on signing for the Dragons. Kitty returns unexpectedly, and surprises Ray, joking she hopes he's hidden his secret lover away!
Having discovered Lynda is pregnant from their affair, Ray guiltily tells Kitty everything, and feeling betrayed, she takes William and walks out on him. Ray is determined to get his family back, even though Lynda is keeping his baby, and Kitty tells him they only have a chance if he leaves Harchester and is away from Lynda. She presents Ray with the ultimatum that unless he chooses she and William, they are both going back to Thailand, which causes Ray to take his son and barricade them in the dressing room. When Lynda suffers a miscarriage, Kitty shows her love rival compassion, assuring Lynda she never wanted to see this happen. Ray realises the only way to stop everyone's pain is to leave with Kitty and never see Lynda again. Kitty persuades Ray he needs to stay for the final game of the season, the boys needing his guidance for this last crucial game, and she leaves before him, with Ray later taking the manager's job at Bordeaux.
Kitty was played, on a recurring basis, by Akemi Otani during her Season 3 appearances in 1999 and 2000.
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