TV icon from the 90s "left public life" after rumors of death have become viral

Steve Burns played on the beloved Nickelodeon Show Clues from Blue from 1996 to 2001.


In 2001, after welcoming the children's television seriesBlue indices For five years,Steve Burns Thrown into the sponge - or the striped green shirt, rather. In the show, it was explained that "Steve" was heading for university and would be replaced by his brother "Joe", played byDonovan Patton. In real life, Burns simply didn't want to be part of the series.

But the television star did not completely abandon pop culture just because he was no longer on the Nickelodeon series. Instead, rumors have regularly started to surface and spread that Burns was dead. These rumors, which varied in detail, deeply affected burns, to the point that he decided to leave public life.

Today, the former Nickelodeon works in entertainment and returns to the world ofBlue indices once again. Read the rest to learn more about his experience with these death hoax and his life today.

Read this then:The former child actor "was in danger" on the cinema set, admits the co-star.

Burns was clinically depressed during the show.

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In a new interview withVariety, Burns said he did not realize it at the time, butHe was depressed During his passage onBlue indices.

"I didn't know it yet, but I was the happiest person in North America," said the 49 -year -old actor. “I was fighting with serious clinical depression throughout what was on this show. It was my job to be completely and completely full of joy and ask me at any time, and it became impossible. I have always been able to dig and find something that I felt authentic for me which was good enough to be in the series, but after years and years to go to the well without reconstituting it, there was a cost. ""

He said he had gone through a "long period of healing" after leaving the series.

The rumors of death made him wreak havoc.

Steve Burns at the premiere of
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In the years following burnsBlue indices, rumors circulated that he died in a car accident or a drug overdose. Although he made appearances to prove that he was still alive, rumors persisted, which had an impact on him.

"I was under the work hypothesis that most of you thought I was dead," he saidVariety. "This rumor was so persistent and so indelible that I supposed that it was a cultural preference. I finally took the clue. I kept my head down and I left public life."

Today,Instagram handle from Burns And organic even refers to hoaxes. Its handle is @steveburnsalive and the bio bed simply "alive".

He understands why the gossip appealed to people.

Steve Burns speaking at a lighting of the Empire State Building in blue for the
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In 2007, Burns spoke to MTVon the rumors that he died.

"It starts to concern me," he said. "I'm starting to think that there may be something that people know that I don't know ... So I am dead! But I feel fantastic. I think I'm just going to make a website and Confirm the rumor, and see if it helps. In this way, I can at least die of something better than a drug overdose. I want to die in a whale hunting accident in Nova Scotia or something more interesting. "

He added that he thinks he understands why rumors persist, even if he feels defensive of the show.

"I think the dissonance of this is really satisfactory, you know, the idea that a children's television host is involved in such harmful activities," said Burns. "It's extremely satisfactory if you are 14 years old. But it's actually the only thing that bothers me about the rumor. I just hate the idea ofBlue indicesBe associated with something like that. We all worked too hard on it. But what are you going to do? ""

He returned toBlue's clues.

Steve Burns, Josh Dela Cruz, and Donovan Patton at the premiere of
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Burns revisits his role as Steve in the newBlue indices film,Adventure of the big city of Blue. He also wrote, produced and appeared in the episodes of the currentBlue indices series,Blue and you indices!, who is hosted byJosh Dela Cruz. In September 2021, Burns made the headlines when he shared amake a message withBlue indices Fans Who had grown up watching the original show in honor of the 25th anniversary of the show. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I never liked being more Steve than now," he said Variety new film. "I can wear a trench. It's like Grover-Meet-Columbo-a clown character. It is really releasing in one way or another."

Apart from being Steve, Burns is a musician and actor of voiceover. He also recently returned to live action with a role on Young sheldon For which he also wrote the opening theme song.


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