PLONKING THEMSELVES DOWN on the sofa Googlebox style, Stephen and Chris, the nation’s favourite gay gassers, fall straight into their usual banter with cheeky back-andforths just as they do on the telly.
We’re in the Light Lounge in London, a long way from the Brighton sofa (at Chris’ home) that the boys share once a week for back-to-back viewing on catch-up, and they are both in a jolly mood. Not only are they back on the box every Friday but former lovers Stephen Webb, 45, and Chris Steed, 40, are engaged – the former to hairdresser Daniel Lustig, the latter to gardener Tony Butland — and they’ve also written their first book. It’s a sort of free-form autobiography called We Need To Talk, and it’s as funny as they are, but it’s not a laugh all the way through.
As they settle down for a chat, the duo admit they’ve had their fair share of hardships.