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FIVESTARLUXURY

STEADMAN

GROWING UP IN ROMFORD 3 SISTERS, MY BROTHER, MYSELF, MUM AND DAD, JUST DOING THE ORDINARY STUFF THAT KIDS DO

LORRAINE

RIGHT AT THE BEGINING MY DAD BROUGHT A DEMO WHICH WE LOVED CALLED PROBLEMATIC

BUSTER

IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE DEMO I GOT CALLED PROBLEMATIC

LORRAINE

WE SUNG IT, THE 3 GIRLS SUNG IT AND PUT IT ON TAPE AND MY DAD DIDNT REALLY KNOW WE ALL COULD SING UNTIL HE HEARD THE TAPE

BUSTER

I COULDNT BELIEVE MY EARS, WOW, WHEN WE HEAR 3 OF THEM SINGING

LORRAINE

THATS WHEN MY DAD CAME IN AND SAID WELL IF THEYRE SERIOUS ABOUT IT I'LL MANAGE THEM

BUSTER

SO PEBBLE MILL AT ONE WANTED THEM TO BE ON THE SHOW

DENIECE

WE KEPT REHEARSING AND DADDY SAID UM, WHY DONT WE GET TOGETHER AND DO A DANCE ROUTINE, WE DIDNT PLAN ANYTHING IT JUST HAPPENED,

WE ALL CAME TOGETHER, THE NAME, THE COSTUMES, THE DANCE ROUTINE AND THE SINGING

BUSTER

AND THE REPORT WE GOT ON PEBBLE MILL AT ONE, THE SWITCHBOARD WAS COMPLETELY JAMMED, AND I SAYS LEAVE THEM GO

DENIECE

I ENDED UP BEING LEAD SINGER, STED DID MOST OF THE DESIGNING, DORIS WOULD TEACH THE DANCE ROUTINES AND LORRAINE WAS THE MAIN SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GROUP,

DEL JUST DID HIS PART

STEADMAN

THE HARDEST THING ABOUT DESIGNING THE COSTUMES WAS I HAD TO BE ABLE TO DESIGN IT WHERE IT WAS SOMEWHAT FEMENINE ALSO MASCULINE

DENIECE

DAD TOLD ME GO AND TAKE YOUR DRIVING TEST AND I'LL BUY YOU A CAR, I SAID OK, I WENT AND BOOKED MY TEST, THEN HE TOOK ME DOWN TO THE LAMBERGUINE PARTNERSHIP AND HE SAYS, ''WHICH CAR DO YOU WANT'' ''DADDY THAT ONE''

ITS THE LAMBERGUINE COURTACHE BLACK WITH CHAMPAGNE INTERIOR

LORRAINE

I HAD A FERARI, A RED FERARI 328, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL BUT I WASHED IT MORE THAN I DROVE IT

STEADMAN

ACTUALLY I DIDNT BUY A FLASH CAR, I REALLY DIDNT, THE ULTIMATE CAR FOR ME WAS AUIDI QUATRO 1986 BLACK,

IT WAS MY PRIDE AND JOY

STEADMAN

I FELT REALLY SORRY FOR SARAH GREEN WHO WAS INTERVIEWING US ON I THINK WAS A SATURDAY MORNING PROGRAMME,

A YOUNG CHAP HAD ACTUALLY CALLED IN TO ASK US A QUESTION

LORRAINE

BUT HE JUST STARTED SWEARING

STEADMAN

AND HE F'D AND BLINDED ON THE LINE AND WE WERE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER THINKING, DID WE JUST HEAR WHAT WE JUST HEARD?

LORRAINE

THE FUNNY THING WAS WE FOUND IT VERY FUNNY

WE WERE OVEREXPOSED, I MEAN, I'LL BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT IT, I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS SAID IN OUR FAMILY THAT WE WERE EVERYWHERE, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERENT AT AN AWARD SHOW, WE WERE IN A MAGAZINE, OR A TV SHOW, OR LOOK-IN MAGAZINE CARTOON STRIP, WE WERE EVERYWHERE

LORRAINE

BANKRUPSEY WAS THERE, FROM THE STUDIO THAT WE BUILT ON THE HOUSE, BUT THATS NOT THE REASON WHY WE MOVED FROM ENGLAND, WE COULDNT WALK DOWN THE STREET WITHOUT BEING FOLLOWED, WE WERE FOLLOWED WHEN WE WENT SHOPPING

PEOPLE WANNA BELIEVE THAT FIVE STAR WERE THROWN OUT OF THEIR HOUSE,THEY WANNA BELIEVE THAT FIVE STAR MADE SO MUCH MONEY AND LOST IT ALL, THEY WANNA BELIEVE THE RUBBISH STUFF

SOME OF US GOT MARRIED, SOME OF US HAVE GOT CHILDREN, JUST LIVE A NORMAL LIFE, BECAUSE IF WE DIDNT DO THAT I DONT THINK I'D BE TALKING TO YOU NOW, I'D BE IN AN INSTITUTION SOMEWHERE.