Pop group Steps are at loggerheads over Eurovision.
Faye Tozer and Lee Latchford-Evans are dead against the idea of representing the UK.
But Claire Richards, Ian “H” Watkins and Lisa Scott-Lee are open to it. Faye said: “We are a split camp within the band.
“H would do it tomorrow. Lisa and Claire would probably want to do it as well. But I am not so much in favour of it.”
Lee added: “It’s a very mixed camp and I agree with Faye.”
The UK had its first decent result in over a decade at this year’s contest when Sam Ryder came second with Space Man. Even that success hasn’t convinced Faye and Lee.
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They fear the contest is still too political and worry they would end up with the dreaded “nil points”.
Lee said: “We’d like to do it for the experience if all the other bits weren’t there – the nil points, the politics.”
Faye added: “We’ve got such an amazing legacy behind us, I don’t think it would do us any favours. It’s the whole ‘nil points’ thing.
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“We were approached in the early days. But there are specific rules – I don’t think you can release music for a certain period of time or chart.
Luckily for me, we never fitted into that category and couldn’t do it.”
Steps kicked off a summer of live shows at pop festival Mighty Hoopla on Friday. And the good news for Faye was that there wasn’t a scoreboard in sight.
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Meanwhile, the group have announced a Platinum collection album for their greatest hits, as Lisa said: “It blows my mind. It’s been 10 years. This period, since the reunion, has lasted longer than the first time Steps were together.
“People don’t realise that. There seems to be so much love for Steps, it’s great to be a part of it. It was over, and we didn’t think we’d get a second opportunity to be a pop star, sell out arenas and release new albums.
“I see it as a huge bonus. What we achieved the first time round was amazing, but I just feel like we’re going from strength to strength. We’re so blessed.”
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