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Stephanie McIntosh (born 5 July 1985) is an Australian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Sky Mangel in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and her music career, which began with the release of her debut album Tightrope in September 2006.

Singer

McIntosh's music career began in 2004 when her version of the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" was included on the album The Spirit of Christmas 2004.

Following the path of many Neighbours stars by diversifying into music, McIntosh signed a five-album deal with Universal Music Australia in 2004. The two years that McIntosh spent making the album was turned into a reality TV show The Steph Show, produced by Tom Nichols and Arnon Woolfson. The show debuted on Network Ten on July 28, 2006, the day before the release of her debut single Mistake, and finished on September 15, 2006, the date the music video for her second single Tightrope was released. Successive albums have failed to appear, and rumours suggest she has been dumped by her label.
Tightrope (2006)

Her debut single "Mistake", was released on July 29, 2006 and premiered on Australian radio on June 26, 2006. It debuted on the ARIA Charts at #3, and was certified Gold in August 2006, with shipments of over 35,000 units.

"Tightrope", the second single to be lifted off the album, made the Australian top 20, but failed to chart as well as "Mistake". The album debuted and peaked at #4 on the ARIA Charts and at #1 on the Australasian Charts and was also accredited Gold.

The third single to be lifted from the album, "So Do I Say Sorry First?", did not do as well as her previous singles, peaking at number #34 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

A special repackaged edition of the album Tightrope was released on March 19, 2007.[6] At her appearance on Habbo Hotel on March 8, 2007, McIntosh confirmed that the repackaged edition will feature remixes of the singles released from Tightrope as well as the bonus track "Catching My Breath". She also confirmed that a second season of The Steph Show is in the pipeline, however this increasingly looks unlikely. McIntosh was also nominated for "Spankin' New Artist" at the 2006 MTV Australia Video Music Awards, at which she also performed. Stephanie performed "So Do I Say Sorry First?" and struggled with part of the song where she was without musical backing[citations needed], and her performance was cut from later screenings of the show[citations needed]. This was the second time she had struggled live[citations needed], following a poorly received performance on The AFL Footy Show.
UK cover for Tightrope (2007)

"Mistake" was the debut single released from Tightrope in the UK, with McIntosh promoting the album there in June 2007.[7] Mistake was available in the UK for download only on June 18, 2007, with its physical release being a week later on June 25, 2007. McIntosh did a lot of promotional work on British radio and TV. Mistake debuted at #168 on the UK Singles Chart purely on downloads before reaching its peak of #47 upon its physical release.

The album, Tightrope, was originally supposed to be released in the UK on July 2, 2007, but was delayed to August 20, 2007 due to the single Mistake not doing so well. In the weeks leading up to the release it peaked at #11 on the UK Top 100 Pre-order Albums Chart before its release, but failed to chart on the UK Albums Chart. "So Do I Say Sorry First?" was released as the second UK single. It was available in the UK for download only on August 6, 2007 and then its physical release would have been a week later on August 13; however, several days after the download release date, it was announced that "So Do I Say Sorry First?" would be a 'download exclusive' single. It later peaked at #258 on the UK Singles Chart.

McIntosh began performing at University bars and nightclubs across the UK in September 2007, which ended in November 2007 in an attempt to build her popularity with UK fans.[8] In 2008 she started to focus more on her acting career.

At present there is no news as to whether McIntosh will be recording or releasing a second album, but it has not been announced that she has been dropped from her record label Universal, which leaves the door open. .