Magazine Source: Smash Hits! Timeframe: 1998 (Christmas) What do popstars get up to in the dressing room before they go on stage? If they’re anything like STEPS, they vandalise the place, scoff bunches of apples, and, um, throw up… MINGIN’…
Magazine Source: TV Hits Timeframe: December 1998 Read Part 1 here Lee had some whiter than white trainers! When I was a kid my mum bought me some plimsolls that were dazzling white. I used to try and get them…
Magazine Source: TV Hits Timeframe: December 1998 From dressing up as scarecrows to weeing on bins and flashing their boobs [and that’s just H!] – TV Hits catch up with STEPS for an embarrassing tale or two… Lee once…
Magazine Source: iN10 Magazine, The Sunday Post Timeframe: 12 November 2017 Words: Bill Gibb For four heady years everything they touched seemed to turn to gold. There were chart-topping records, sold out shows and adoring attention wherever they turned….
Magazine Source: Hello! Timeframe: August 6 2002 Former STEPS stars H and Claire tell us why they have no regrets about calling time on one of Pop’s great success stories. It was a curtain call of sorts, but not the…
Source: TOTP Magazine December 1998 Words: Miranda Eason, Gallery Photos: Mike Prior Get ready as STEPS prepare to reveal the naked truth… for your eyes only! OK, let’s get personal. What would you say are your best qualities? Lee: I’m…
Timeframe: circa 2000 Source: Unknown Read on for Claire’s tongue-in-cheek Manifesto and Campaign Q & A. Claire Richards: The Candidate For The Monster Raving Shopaholics Party! Manifesto Vote for me cos I am for the people, I am for…
Words: Billy Sloan Timeframe: May 20, 2001 The day’s schedule is planned with military precision….each item timed to the minute. There are newspaper and TV interviews, a live internet link-up, a kid’s message to be recorded, a charity spot and…
Magazine Source: Boyz Timeline: 4th May 2002 The gay community gasped when it heard on boxing day that steps were to split, then breathed a sigh of relief when H and Claire announced they’d be pairing up under the…
Magazine Source: Maxim Timeframe: October 2000 Words: Graham Wray You can’t fool us with your squeaky clean stage act. What’s been your best moment of rock’n’roll madness in a hotel? CLAIRE: We were in a hotel in Germany and got…
Magazine / Newspaper Source: The Sun Timeframe: January 1999 Secret Dates for Claire & Lee… STEPs stars Lee Latchford-Evans and Claire Richards are secretly dating each other, we can reveal. Even the bands management were kept in the dark about…
Magazine Source: TV Hits Timeframe: July 2001 Words – Jane MacArthur Are you in love at the mo? Might be! I might have a little twinkle in my eye! Oo-er! Do you find it easy to tell someone you love…
Magazine Source: Unknown Timeframe: Circa 1999/2000 Claire Richards on Napster What do you think of Napster? I don’t know much about it, but I know if you can get music for free it could end up causing the music industry…
Magazine Source: Sky Timeframe: 2000 After the Watershed by Damon Syson, Sky “We’re not going to flash our bits but it’s nice to be seen as women” It may come as a shock to learn that Claire Richards, the Middlesex…
Magazine Source: FHM Timeframe: somewhere between April – August 2000 The flaxen hair damsel in distress will always be able to worm her way into the cold, chiselled heart of the common man. Who amongst us hasn’t succumbed to…
Magazine Source: Unknown Timeframe: 2001 Gold: Greatest Hits is out on 15 October. Won’t this fuel the speculation that STEPS are splitting? Claire: I expect so. We’ve been breaking up for the past 2 years, if you read all the…
Magazine Source: FHM Timeframe: 1998 The youngest Step at just 21, blonde Claire feels an old hand at the music business, having already almost made it with another band called TSD. “We could have been quite famous,” she muses….
Magazine Source: Smash Hits Timeframe: 1998-1999(ish) The Rules: In the Smash Hits Biscuit Tin there are 100 envelopes. Each contains a horribly difficult question. You, Claire STEPS, must open 20 envelopes at random and answer the questions inside. Among…
TV presenting and singing? Aren’t you hogging the limelight from the other members of the band? H: We all do our fair amount of TV presenting but I admit I probably do a lot more. I don’t know why that…
Boyz Magazine 28 August 1998 Candy: Loves Chocolate. Galaxy’s the best. Obviously. hates Licorice Movie: Loves At the moment it’s the Wedding Singer, but of all time, I’d probably say The Wizard of Oz. Sadly. hates The Brady Bunch is…
Linedancers By Trade! Ever wondered just how much STEPS know about line-dancing after that initial 5,6,7,8 experience? Well they talked to Linedancer magazine and told them all about their fave jig! When five young hopefuls successfully passed an audition to…
Sisters share their most intimate secrets and borrow each other’s clothes. But what happens when one becomes famous? Claire Richards, a singer with the pop phenomenon Steps, and her younger sister Gemma, a sales administrator, reveal all… Gemma on Claire:…
Claire on her Mum: Sum up your mum in a few words… Kind, caring and extremely protective. Are you a mummy’s girl or a daddy’s girl? Bit of both, but as I’ve got older, Mum and I have become more…