The problem with Ste like many others is that the show has chucked way to many stories at him these last few years that its hard to care anymore, his boyfriends death in a explosion, his mum's death of cancer which he helped her to die and then nearly went to prison for, kissing a man that turned out to be his own long last dad who then also died a year later, his boyfriend got raped, his half sister got cancer, his drug addiction and then he got HIV and now he has turned straight again to be with the drunken scouser. Ste is a great character and Kieron is one of the show's best actors but its way to much in so little time.