Steve Burns Reveals Why He Left ‘Blue’s Clues’ 15 Years Later

It has been 15 years since Steve Burns left his role as Steve on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues, and now the former actor is revealing the reason why.

Since Burns’ exit from the kid’s television show, rumors have swirled and numerous death hoaxes have been reported. Reports have also claimed that Steve left Blue’s Clues to pursue a music career. However, the truth is that Steve was getting older, losing his hair, and realized it was time to move on.

“I Googled the conditions of life, and I meet every single one of them, I can assure you,” Burns told the Huffington Post during a recent interview, which he conducted by phone from the actual “thinking chair.” “I am certainly alive. I know that for sure.”

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— Steve Burns (@SteveBurnsAlive) December 15, 2016

As far as music goes, Steve has actually been working on a kid’s album, but that’s not the reason he left Blue’s Clues –– it was just something that ended up happening after he left the show in 2002.

“That’s actually not true,” Burns said. “No, no, no, no. People think I left the show to pursue a music career. That didn’t happen at all.”

“I certainly wasn’t leaving ‘Blue’s Clues’ to pursue a large music career because that never even happened. That was just a wonderful dream come true, [a] hobby thing that happened after Blue’s Clues.”

Steve explained that growing older and losing his hair had a major role in his decision to stop portraying his character.

“I left the show because it was just simply time to go,” he said. “I was pretty much playing a boyish, older-brotherish kind of character on the show. I was getting older; I was losing my hair; a lot of the original gangsters on the show, like the people who created it, were all moving on to other careers. It just felt like time. I just had a gut feeling like it was time to go.”

Lately, Burns has been working on his kid’s album Foreverywhere, along with his friend Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips. They just recently released the video for their first song, “The Unicorn And Princess Rainbow.” Watch the video below.

“Nickelodeon, years ago, asked me to write a song about a groundhog, and I happened to be on the phone with Steven [Drozd] when I was reading the email, and I said, ‘Hey, dude. Is this something you’d want to work on with me? Because when I write songs they’re 40 percent good, and when you help me they’re a million times better,'” Steve said when asked about the idea behind Foreverywhere.

“And he’s like, ‘Yeah, that sounds really fun.’ I went down to Oklahoma, and we wrote that song in no time and had a blast. I think while we were writing the song, we stopped at one point and looked at each other and said, ‘We have to do a kids record.’ As we were writing that song, we were thinking, ‘Let’s do this in our spare time.’ And we started to, and we did.”

Steve Burns from ‘Blue’s Clues’ Talks New ‘Kids’ Album ‘Foreverywhere’ https://t.co/SPMWEDfLPp #music #kids via @momdotme pic.twitter.com/TbjuyDSQVf

— Lorraine C. Ladish (@lorrainecladish) November 29, 2016

But, why a kid’s album? Steve said he already had seven years of experience working in the children’s entertainment industry and he thought it would be fun to do.

“I hosted a children’s TV show for seven years and cared about it deeply, and developed a lot of opinions, a real point of view, and really began to develop an enormous admiration for children’s entertainment as something that’s incredibly fun and creative to do,” Steve said of why he decided to create children’s music. “By the time I left that show, I felt like I had a little more in the tank, and it was just kind of a natural thing. ”

Were you, or are you, a fan of Blue’s Clues? Were you sad to see Steve go? Leave your comments below.

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