‘Blue’s Clues’ Ster Steve Burns ‘depressed’ through online rumors that he died
Many stars of television programs for children have become victims of internet fixation, and “Blue’s Clues” star Steve Burns says that online rumors have kept a toll on his own mental health over the years. Appears on Rainn Wilson’s podcast “Soul Bloom”, Burns reflected About his negative response to a persistent online rumor that he had died before he completed his term of office in the series in 2002.
“If a kind of rumor persists for three or four years, it is no longer funny,” Burns said. “If it lasts for 10 years, it feels like a cultural preference. … If it lasts 15 or 20 years, you start to feel that you should be.”
Burns speelde de hoofdrol als een fictieve versie van zichzelf op Nick Jr.’s ‘Blue’s Clues’, die rechtstreeks naar de camera (en televisiekijkers) sprak in elke aflevering van zijn eerste optreden in 1996. Hij was de inaugurele voorsprong van de serie, die verscheen in meer dan 100 afleveringen gedurende zes jaar gedurende zes jaar gedurende zes jaar na het vertrek van de serie in 2002 na een meermedewerkers in 2002. Tijdens zijn uitzending Steve introduced viewers to his brother Joe, played by Donovan Patton, the new star of the series.
It is hardly unusual for television stars to leave their programs after a few years, but the exit of Burns stimulated a morbid internet rumor that he had died – a dark explanation for why “Blue’s Aco” would need a new lead.
“What many people don’t understand is that during the show the internet started with the internet, and the world decided, or a large part of the world decided, that I had died,” said Burns and said that he was in the “handle of this depression after I left the show” and that the online rumor “not what you want to hear when you are seriously depressive.”
“I didn’t recognize myself. Everyone thought I was dead and eventually I started playing,” Burns added.
Burns has taken on a more direct relationship with fans in recent years and even confronted the online rumor with his new Instagram handle, “Steveburnsalive.” He has also written and directed various episodes from the revival “Blue’s Atondement” and can be seen in addition to fellow ex-guestheer Patton in the Paramount+ function “Blue’s Big City Adventure”, released in 2022.
