Stepstar90
4th Apr 2007, 15:53
icWales are loving the Steps reunion story lately...
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'I have such an issue with my hair. I'm a natural poodle.'
Former Steps singer Faye Tozer was talking about the long blonde dreadlocks that characterised her look during her chart-topping heyday.
'I didn't want to be the blonde pretty curly one, I wanted to be seen as someone with ideas and with a brain,' she said.
Once voted one of FHM's sexiest women, Faye, 31, need not be concerned about her hair. Now sporting a shorter, darker do, she's ditched the dreads and enjoyed a successful theatre career since Steps split five years ago.
But she admits they often get asked to reunite the band and hasn't ruled it out even though she's currently on tour with the thriller Dial M For Murder.
Faye stars alongside Taggart's James MacPherson, Richard Walsh, from London's Burning, and Tom Butcher, of The Bill, in the play, which opens at Cardiff's New Theatre tonight.
She said: 'I love Cardiff, I have quite a few friends there. I like wandering around by the castle and going to the Bay. There's a great sushi restaurant there. I might even go to St David's Spa for a treatment, perhaps.'
Of course, her famous connection with South Wales is her former Steps band mate, Rhondda-born Ian 'H' Watkins. After the group parted, the pair had a much-publicised fall-out, with Faye choosing not to invite him to her wedding. Five years on, she considers it water under the bridge.
She said: 'Everyone's in contact again. Claire (Richards) is about to have a baby and H is shooting a movie. We're all quite proud of each other. It was difficult, the split was handled badly so it took a little while to get back in contact. But it's been five years. We've all grown up.'
Since the break-up, Faye has had a top 10 duet with opera singer Russell Watson and starred in a string of musicals including Tell Me On A Sunday, Love Shack and Me And My Girl.
In Dial M For Murder, her first drama, Faye plays Sheila, the role made famous by Grace Kelly in the Hitchcock film. Her character is a wealthy woman who is having an affair behind her retired tennis star husband's back.
While now established in her stage career, she knows she will never shake off her 'five years, five albums and no regrets' as a member of pop sensation Steps.
Even now, fans keep in contact with her.
'It's quite funny,' she said. 'Last year I was touring with Me And My Girl and H had been doing Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat so we get messages from fans who had been to see both of us.
'We've been asked yearly to get back together as Steps but it is difficult because everyone is in such different places.
'Never say never. We have talked about it but we haven't come to any real conclusion.'
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I like that article.
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'I have such an issue with my hair. I'm a natural poodle.'
Former Steps singer Faye Tozer was talking about the long blonde dreadlocks that characterised her look during her chart-topping heyday.
'I didn't want to be the blonde pretty curly one, I wanted to be seen as someone with ideas and with a brain,' she said.
Once voted one of FHM's sexiest women, Faye, 31, need not be concerned about her hair. Now sporting a shorter, darker do, she's ditched the dreads and enjoyed a successful theatre career since Steps split five years ago.
But she admits they often get asked to reunite the band and hasn't ruled it out even though she's currently on tour with the thriller Dial M For Murder.
Faye stars alongside Taggart's James MacPherson, Richard Walsh, from London's Burning, and Tom Butcher, of The Bill, in the play, which opens at Cardiff's New Theatre tonight.
She said: 'I love Cardiff, I have quite a few friends there. I like wandering around by the castle and going to the Bay. There's a great sushi restaurant there. I might even go to St David's Spa for a treatment, perhaps.'
Of course, her famous connection with South Wales is her former Steps band mate, Rhondda-born Ian 'H' Watkins. After the group parted, the pair had a much-publicised fall-out, with Faye choosing not to invite him to her wedding. Five years on, she considers it water under the bridge.
She said: 'Everyone's in contact again. Claire (Richards) is about to have a baby and H is shooting a movie. We're all quite proud of each other. It was difficult, the split was handled badly so it took a little while to get back in contact. But it's been five years. We've all grown up.'
Since the break-up, Faye has had a top 10 duet with opera singer Russell Watson and starred in a string of musicals including Tell Me On A Sunday, Love Shack and Me And My Girl.
In Dial M For Murder, her first drama, Faye plays Sheila, the role made famous by Grace Kelly in the Hitchcock film. Her character is a wealthy woman who is having an affair behind her retired tennis star husband's back.
While now established in her stage career, she knows she will never shake off her 'five years, five albums and no regrets' as a member of pop sensation Steps.
Even now, fans keep in contact with her.
'It's quite funny,' she said. 'Last year I was touring with Me And My Girl and H had been doing Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat so we get messages from fans who had been to see both of us.
'We've been asked yearly to get back together as Steps but it is difficult because everyone is in such different places.
'Never say never. We have talked about it but we haven't come to any real conclusion.'
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I like that article.