Steps

[SpellingBea]

Well I've been blocked by H and I support trans rights Hate how polarising the debate is on both sides.

Love all the tea and anecdotes!

I’ve also been blocked and I am a fierce supporter of trans rights, and lgbtq+ rights in general so I’m just baffled! It’s really not fair that now, genuine fans have been blocked. He never said anything I was particularly interested in but it’s not a nice feeling.
As someone who has been a fan of steps since the very beginning (they were my first concert!) I’m really disappointed.

 

[MidnightAura]

What was the name of the Steps documentary please as I wouldn’t mind watching it? Thanks!

There is two - Steps reunion and Steps on the road again. In the first H imo came across very badly. He admitted when he left Steps he just handed a letter and walked out leaving Claire to deal with the fallout! Lisa is a good dancer but she’s not a great vocalist but she really thinks she is. I can totally see her being jealous Claire got to sing the most.
I have met H,Lee and Faye and they were kinda rude. Just ignored us. (We were a group of six people outside their hotel. ( I’m cringing writing this lol) H came out, stood around talking to the doorman and pretending he couldn’t see us or hear us. They had a concert that night and I presume they were going to the venue to sound check.

 

[Sunlifeover50]

Faye gets more beautiful with age.

 

[KINGAA]

Watching it currently!
gosh it’s quite uncomfortable viewing...
You can tell H is such a stirrer and amends his personality and what he says to whatever situation he is in - 2 faced. They give Claire a hard time when it was her and H but H plays the egos of the others in the band so they let him off.
Claire has steel doesn’t she. I always thought her as quite timid but she stands her ground.
Lisa cracks me up - she has a very high opinion of herself

Lisa thinks she’s the best member, she thinks she is the best pop star to grace the planet. Have you watched Totally Scott Lee?

 

[xvictoriax]

That documentary was quite fake. They’d all been friends again for years before they made that. I think that’s possibly where some of you get the vibe they don’t like each other from (they do). Possibly because it all over egged to not seem fake.

I don’t think that some members like each other particularly. Faye and Claire seem close, in fairness Faye seems to be the only one who probably gets along with everyone. Think Lee is okay with Claire, Faye and Lisa but I get the vibe he finds H too much. If Lee made any of the comments H does towards him in regards to one of the girls he’d be cancelled. I still very much get the sense that Lisa and Claire don’t really get on, there’s a sort of awkward politeness between them. I totally agree the programme was forced hostility in many parts but it seemed pretty clear there was a real resentment towards Claire from Lisa particularly and it still seems to be Lisa that makes little comments about the split. I think it’s very much like a family, you love people because they’re family but there’s people you are far closer to than others.

 

[JakeM]

No gossip unfortunately, but I love their new album!

 

[CookieZippy]

I can't quite decide if the fact the woman can't even run a bath without fucking up is genuinely tragic or quite endering.

 

[ruokhun]

Was she? Spill the tea!

As for H, I wish he would shut up that he’s gay. We know, we all knew back in the 90s. It’s not a big deal. What’s he going to do if one of his sons is straight??

I wish I had more tea to spill all she told me was that she was quite a bitch and that she thought she was better than everyone else, one of *those* girls.

I also went to the same school (many years later) and my music teacher would always bang on about her and how he taught her/gave her vocal lessons and he had a little Clare Steps doll on his desk too

 

[Snippysnips]

I get that, I’m similar. I’ve lost count of how many times I went to see Steps as a kid.
They kinda ruined themselves for me when Lee, Faye and H were rude to my sisters and I. Well Faye ignored us completely but the boys were nothing like their stage persona. They do say Don’t meet your heros! I was really disappointed.
I have saw them twice as an adult, once at their reunion tour and the party on the dance floor tour. I don’t remember their reunion tour much except that if they were singing live H was having an off night. Their party in the dance floor tour was nostalgic but nostalgia will only get you so far, Steps were always known for their bright costumes and dance routines and I know they aren’t 22 anymore and certain songs embarrass them like 5678 but sometimes I got the impression in that tour they didn’t want to be there. I have saw a lot of footage from this tour and I haven’t been impressed, the costumes are bizarre, the staging is so so basic and in some songs they look so uncomfortable. Is their families travelling with them? Perhaps that’s why they don’t look so unhappy If they aren’t. I think Faye not being there isn’t helping.

I've never met them, by the sounds of it that isn't a bad thing, I've always had that nervousness of meeting anyone an having your illusion of them completly destroyed, I know not everyone is who they are in your own head but I've heard so many horror story's of certain celebs so I try not to go out my way to meet anyone although I know they all aren't like that

I kindi do like they have kept the matching outfit/colour as it was always their thing but I do think they could certainly design them better, I've seen some an it does them no justice, they know its a much more maturer audience they have now since we have grown up so they could keep the colour thing they have an design them better

Does anyone else feel sorry for Lisa's daughter? She's been named Star-Lilly. Poor wee girl

Some celebs need to have their kids named for them, so many stupid names out there, poor kids

 

[Cosmicpixiesb]

I thought so too! I live "up the road" from H, and as a massive Steps fan, I have managed to avoid meeting him so far - my worry being he'd be really nasty!

What I loved about the doc was that Lisa genuinely is not best vocally but could tell she was the fight and driving force! I changed my opinion of her then.

Faye and Lee seem so lovely. Claire just makes me laugh whinging about dancing all the time. Seems a tad smug but her vocals are still fire.

I remember watching it and sure they said they'd not spoken in years yet they'd all been to Faye's wedding I think or Claire's? It made me think was it all bullshit to give them a bit of "cool factor"?

 

[hol20x]

She looked fine?

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She looks lovely!

 

[S4buk]

H and Lisa really took the ‘queen of huns’ joke a ran with it huh? Lee also looks a bit pissed off with H constantly referring to him as a DILF.

 

[hol20x]

He must be bored during Steps hiatus. The others are doing panto etc.

 

[PeteM]

They were one of Pete Waterman’s creations, yes he of the early Pop Idol show fame at the turn of the century. He was the first harsh but fair judge in the line up before being replaced in that niche by that Simon Fuller lackey / wannabe Simon Cowell.

I think Steps got the songs Waterman’s other act, Kylie Minogue, passed on.

Also, like all the other pop group acts of the nineties, they walked away with very little while Waterman and other executives made millions.

Simon Cowell was actually Mr Nice originally on those shows.

Pete was Mr Nasty.

Then Pete left and Simon adopted that character.

Lisa and Geri are shining examples of how little talent, average talent and a hell of a lot of ambition can get you a long way.

They're both batshit mental.

 

[Restless Native]

I'm guessing husband #1 was the one in the reunion video? Such a negative Nancy, I'm glad she got rid.

Nah thats her second husband. He seemed quite jealous about he rejoining Steps imo

 

[CookieZippy]

I read elsewhere that one of the highlights of the show they did last night was Lisa attempting to do Faye's part in Neon Blue, just giving up and shouting "SING IT LEEDS!!!"

 

[S4buk]

He also took absolutely no responsibility in the documentary and everything was directed at Claire.

 

[StephenTJackson]

Not me crushing on H as a kid not realising he’d be more interested in my dad than me hahahah!

Me crushing on Lee is the same thing.

I might be prepared to let him do anything to me, but first of all he would need to start swinging H's way.

I always fancy the straight guys, it's shit.

 

[MidnightAura]

He deleted his JK Tweet because he got a lot of backlash. And then went on a blocking spree.

 

[InkHeart]

I'm just watching The Reunion show for the first time. It's good tv, they're all real characters. I'm glad Faye is so nice, she was my favourite back in the day - with her hippie blonde hair, I thought she was so gorgeous.

Clare and H were cheeky fuckers to pretend that they couldn't remember whether their split from Steps was pre-planned, when the others were saying they'd spoken to people who had already written songs for them.

I'm not sure what to make of Clare: in the first episode I thought she was hilariously grumpy and bitchy. Later on, when she talked about how the other girls always went out partying without her, I felt a bit sorry for her. She's obviously just made of very different stuff from the others. Like she's a great singer, but the life of pop star wasn't for her. She seems easily tired and overwhelmed and needs a lot of down time. It's hard watching how upset she is when learning dance routines. She gets upset even at the prospect of going into the dance studio. I thought she might have had some body dysmorphia still from the old days, when she was saying she felt like an elephant and didn't look remotely like she did ten years ago - I spent the whole show thinking how beautiful she was.

As a kid, I instinctively didn't like Lisa. I just thought her smile was smug and she seemed more artificial than the rest of them. I love watching her in the show, but I wouldn't turn my back on her, there's something wrong in there! H seems like he might just possibly have his heart in the right place, but is still very self-centred and you just want to tell him to shut up sometimes.
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Oh the misogyny in the Ren

...I meant to say, in the Reunion show when he talked about finding the right "oven" for his kids!