Here's his story from when he was on L&K with Steps
on the 24th of may 2001, I met steps!! its a long, long story.
I wrote a letter to live and kicking and said I was a really big fan of steps and would love 2 meet them. I posted it off, hoping for a "sorry were too busy" reply. A couple of days after I posted it, I got a phone call from Joel, a researcher at L&K. He came on the phone an said that he had received my letter and steps were going on the show and I had a chance of going on the show!!!! I was sooo exited! He asked me lots of questions about steps (which I mostly got right!!) and said I did very well. He then went on to explain that if I didn't hear from him by Wednesday night, I wasn't on the show. I said ok and was really excited and said bye, hoping I got a reply from him later in the week.
Later that evening, the phone rang and it was Joel. He said Congratulations that I was on the show!! I was gob smacked! He quickly went through wot was going to happen and said he would phone me back on Tuesday. He virtually phoned me every day!!!
on the Saturday, I was really exited. I got up at 6 and got ready and me and my mom drove up to Glasgow, to the BBC studios where L&K was. When we got there, I started to get really nervous. We went into the reception and waited for Joel to come and take me and my mom down to the green room, where we were going to be all day. He came up and said hi and took us down. While we were walking down, we passed some rooms. i turned around not realizing what these rooms were. then it caught on . they were dressing rooms and Claire was sitting in one doing her makeup!!!!! I stopped in my tracks and stared astoundingly. I couldn't believe that they were actually there!!
When I finally got to the green room Rachael, one of the other contestants was sitting there. I said hi and we chatted for a while while Joel went up to Get the other contestant, Vicki. Joel then asked all 3 of us if we want to go see steps rehearse. we all jumped at the chance!!! we went into the main studio where L&K is filmed. I nearly died!!! they were just 10 metres away from me on the stage!!!! they weren't smiling or singing just going through the routine to make sure they got it right, but it was ashame that H messed up!!!
After that we wee all sitting in the greenroom saying how cool it was when guess wot.....Faye walked in!!!!! I nearly died (again!) she came over to us all individually and talked 2 us I was really nervous. she came over to me and I asked for my pic with her. she said of course and my mom took my most favouritest pic in the world! me and Faye, my FAVE MEMBER OF STEPS!!!
