Whatever happened to… Steps’ Lisa Scott-Lee?

The singer was one of the huge 90s band Steps - but what has she been up to since their heyday?

Starry-eyed beginnings

Steps singer Lisa Scott-Lee, 40, was thoroughly guilty of flooding the charts with cheese in the Noughties as one fifth of dance-pop band Steps. But she wasn’t the only fame-hungry Scott-Lee out there with a mission to fill our lives with Stilton. The Welsh singer was born in Rhyl in 1975 and also has brothers Andy, Anthony and Steve, who also attacked the charts in the Noughties as bad 3SL. Lisa was the pop victor in her family, however, storming to massive success with guilty pleasure Steps, becoming a household name.

Steps attack the charts

Love them or loathe them, you couldn’t miss Lisa’s band Steps, a sugar-coated group who coordinated their music with specific dance moves – taking the UK by storm between 1997 and 2001. They had 21 singles and shifted 20 million albums worldwide before splitting acrimoniously, in a standoff which band mate Claire Richards described as “a bit sticky”.

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Pop’s young dream

Lisa married Hear’Say singer Johnny Shentall in 2004 after three years together. Together they’ve got son Jaden, eight, and daughter Star Lily, six. Lisa’s said she’d love for her kids to go into showbiz, saying: “I wouldn’t be worried because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it and would do it all over again. But I think Johnny’s a bit more sensible because he was a backing dancer for years, so he saw the other side of it before he went into Hear’Say.”

Stage school

Lisa relocated to relocated to Dubai with husband Johnny shortly after Steps’ shock split in 2001. She said: “[The split] was terrible – I would have been happy to carry on, I’d be in Steps until I’m 100, I love it. I didn’t know we were splitting. It was a very last-minute thing – I booked a holiday to Dubai and we bought a house.” After investing in property on the swanky Palm, Lisa opened up her very own fame school, Dubai Performing Arts Academy, which she currently runs as principal with Johnny as a husband and wife duo, teaching drama, singing and dancing.

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The next step

­Being an ex-pat hasn’t put Lisa off reuniting with Steps – which the band did in 2011 after Sky Living’s juicy four-part documentary series, Steps: Reunion. Putting their problems behind them, the band toured in 2012 and released fourth album Light Up The World. Though they’re now on hiatus, Lisa’s keeping herself busy. She’s a well-known face on the Dubai party circuit, and is often seen out at glamorous events in the region. She also writes a showbiz column for Ahlan! magazine, and is an ambassador for Adidas and Fitness First ME. Not bad for a girl from Rhyl.

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