That is nothing to sing about.
“Blue’s Clues” star Steve Burns made a stunning admission about his time engaged on the beloved youngsters’s present.
On Thursday’s episode of actor Rainn Wilson’s “Soul Boom” podcast, Burns revealed that waiters “made more money” than he did whereas internet hosting the Nickelodeon hit.
“I got ‘Blue’s Clues’ early, but every waiter I ever knew made more money than I did for the first many seasons of that show,” the 51-year-old actor stated. “But I was really fortunate, because ‘Blue’s Clues’ was my side hustle forever.”
“My real gig was, I was a voiceover guy,” he added. “I fell into that early.”
Burns began his performing profession in New York Metropolis within the early Nineties. Whereas he informed Wilson that he initially dreamed of being both “an unknown actor who did Off-Broadway stuff” or “Al Pacino,” he finally landed the gig because the host of “Blue’s Clues” in 1996.
However the Nickelodeon job of a lifetime occurred “entirely by accident” as a result of he initially thought he was auditioning for simply one other voiceover undertaking.
“One day, I had an audition for what I thought was going to be the voice of a cartoon on a children’s television show. And if I had known that it was going to be ‘the guy on the show,’ on camera, I wouldn’t have gone,” he defined. “Not only because I was a pretentious young man at the time – that was part of it – but also because children’s television had never occurred to me.”
Burns continued, “I thought it was a voice thing. I went to the audition. And when I got there, there was a camera in the room. And I thought, ‘Oh, s–t. I better do something.’ Yeah. And so I looked at the script, and, you know, I figured … I’m gonna act the s–t out of this.”
The “Blue’s Clues” star remained on the favored children’ present till 2002, when he left to deal with his psychological well being. Nonetheless, rumors quickly unfold that he had reportedly died.
It wasn’t till 20 years later, in 2022, that Burns introduced he had been identified with medical despair shortly earlier than departing the sequence.
“It was something I would hear from people. ‘Oh, I thought you were dead. Didn’t you die?’ And when it persists for 10 years, it feels like a cultural preference, and you start to feel like you’re supposed to be,” he admitted to Wilson.
“I was in, kind of, the throes of this depression after I left the show,” Burns continued. “But what a lot of people don’t understand is that during the show, the internet was beginning to internet and the world decided, or a large portion of the world decided, that I had died.”
Though Burns remained in NYC after leaving “Blue’s Clues,” he stated that there “was about 10 years” the place he “did nothing” with himself.
“I built a house in Brooklyn and never left it. I call it ‘the gray’ of my life,” he stated. “It was about 10 years where I did nothing but, like, drink a couple of bottles of wine every night alone, watch ‘MythBusters’ and just eat Pad Thai.”
“I gained, like, 50 pounds. I was completely unrecognizable. I didn’t recognize myself. And everyone thought I was dead,” Burns continued. “And eventually, I started playing along. You know, that was the strategy. Was just, maybe I am.”
Burns finally bought himself again on observe, and he has since returned to Nickelodeon to write down for and make a cameo within the “Blue’s Clues” revival, “Blue’s Clues & You!”
He additionally took to TikTok in March 2024 to “check in” on the viewers that grew up watching him greater than 20 years earlier.
“Hey, I’m checking in,” he stated within the shifting clip on the time. “What’s going on?”
