 Sarah Moolla of "The People" branded her "superficial", the "Daily Record" Merle Brown referred to her as "a true red-blooded female, and Emma Johnson of the "Liverpool Echo" assessed that she had a "couldn't-care-less" attitude.BBC America described Steph as a two-sided character.They observed that as well as a bitch, she could be "dishonest, vain, jealous and small-minded", and wrote "She causes trouble when she wants to and will happily lie and gossip to get her own way."