Steve is awkward and not great with women-before the Bond Tour Gals put him through bootcamp How To Live With Women. Here, and yes, Chris has a lot to do with this, he makes a try-washing machines, I've got one, she doesn't and she soft no-s him (because that's not where she belongs for this op) and he picks up on it. She then clarifies it's not a long-term no and if iirc he smiles at her.

It rather goes with that interview that went off the rail, Chris and Jeremy saying something that probably had more to do with Director/Writer choices and Chris being the one that later gave a good apology. I don't keep up with most of the public appearances, but it seems that all of the 'beverages prior" are older things like he's figured out that isn't what he wants to model.

And of course he's got Dodger to calm him down.