Blue's Clues Host Steve Burns Addresses Death Hoax

It’s portion of the crushed the now-50-year-old—who spends astir of his clip surviving mostly disconnected the grid successful upstate New York—chose to marque his instrumentality to the nationalist oculus successful the signifier of societal media.

It was a video shared by Nick Jr. connected X, then-Twitter, successful 2021 that saw Steve backmost successful his signature, green-striped rugby garment addressing his now-adult viewers that archetypal tugged astatine the bosom strings of erstwhile Blue’s Clues fans.

“I didn’t constitute it,” Steve said of the video that saw the alum explain his departure from the series, arsenic good arsenic explicit his pridefulness implicit everything his erstwhile kid viewers person accomplished successful adulthood. “I conscionable benignant of stood successful beforehand of the camera and said what was connected my mind. I wanted to proceed the speech that I started a zillion years agone with everyone.”

And since then, Steve—who alongside his Blue’s Clues replacement Donovan Patton, has made appearances connected the currently-running sequel bid hosted by Josh Dela Cruz—has kept up a akin format, using platforms specified arsenic TikTok to check successful with his followers, often letting them person the level arsenic helium sits and “listens” successful beforehand of the camera.

“I conscionable benignant of wondered, ‘Is it imaginable to usage the net backward?’” Steve explained to the NYT. “‘Instead of creating micro-harm successful aggregate, that is really corrosive, tin we conscionable usage it successful affirmative ways?’”

In fact, the interaction his videos person made has so been positive, allowing users to stock their triumphs and struggles and beryllium met with enactment and community.

“What truly gets me is erstwhile idiosyncratic posts thing dark, simple, thing grim, and everyone other comments to enactment them,” helium shared. “I deliberation that’s truly beautiful. And it’s happening conscionable due to the fact that immoderate middle-aged bald dude successful glasses is paying attention. I’m not doing thing that everyone other can’t do.”

It’s a elemental normal that helium says was archetypal developed connected Blue’s Clues.

“My existent occupation was listening,” helium explained of his clip arsenic host. “Most children’s tv talks to the camera, right? That’s benignant of an established convention. But what Blue’s Clues did that I deliberation was truly a breakthrough is we listened. I worked truly hard connected making that arsenic believable arsenic possible.”