This Morning viewers were left baffled as Claire Richards fronted the show’s fashion segment on Thursday. 

The Steps singer, 46, joined hosts Josie Gibson and Rylan Clark for the segment which is normally hosted by Lisa Snowdon. 

Opening the segment, Claire said: ‘It’s January. We’re all looking for a bit of a refresh and a restart.

‘I’m here to show you that fifteen pieces is all you need for the perfect wardrobe that’s going to see you through the year.’

However, fans of the daytime show were left confused by the star’s presence as she is not known for being a style expert.

This Morning viewers were left baffled as Claire Richards fronted the show’s fashion segment on Thursday

The Steps singer, 46, joined hosts Josie Gibson and Rylan Clark for the segment which is normally hosted by Lisa Snowdon

Opening the segment, Claire said: ‘It’s January. We’re all looking for a bit of a refresh and a restart. ‘I’m here to show you that fifteen pieces is all you need for the perfect wardrobe’

Taking to X/Twitter, users wrote: ‘Since when was Claire from Steps a fashion expert?’… ‘What’s happening? When did Claire from Steps become a stylist?’

Others wrote: ‘Now Claire is a fashion expert?’… ‘Let someone from Steps give you fashion advice’. 

It comes after Claire previously claimed she was forced to lose weight while in the band at the height of their fame. 

In an interview with Good Morning Britain, the star said she feels she has ‘earned her stripes now’ and would ‘tell people where to go’ if someone told her to change her size. 

Claire revealed she was made very aware that her voice wouldn’t be enough to guarantee her success and that she needed to ‘lose weight’ to also look the part. 

Speaking to hosts Charlotte Hawkins and Rob Rinder on the ITV show, Claire opened up about being a young women in the industry and how she was ‘told to lose weight’ despite being a size 10. 

She said: ‘I hope it isn’t still a problem in the industry and I hope if someone told me that now I would tell them where to go.

‘Back then there was a thing for female pop stars to look a certain way and there was a prototype everyone had to conform to. 

Fans of the daytime show were left confused by the star’s presence as she is not known for being a style expert

It comes after Claire previously claimed she was forced to lose weight while in Steps at the height of their fame (pictured in 2008) 

‘I wanted to be in a band so much that I did anything I had to do to get into the group. 

‘It played [on my mind] for a long time but now I feel like I’m now in my 40’s and I feel like I’ve earnt my stripes and I feel much stronger now for going through all that.’

Claire, who auditioned for Steps back in 1997, recently confessed that she agreed to lose half a stone for the opportunity to be in the band.

Yet the weightloss spiralled and she reached the point where she got far too thin.

Speaking to The Sun, she confessed: ‘I wasn’t fat or big — I was a size ten or 12 — but I got skinny for the band.

‘The older I get and the more I think about it, of course it affected me because it just sent me on a spiral for years.’

Discussing the change in popular body styles over the years, Claire believes her figure back then would actually have been on trend nowadays, due to the curvy style made popular by the Kardashians.