Steve From ‘Blue’s Clues’ Finally Addresses the Rumors of His Death

They say don’t meet your heroes, but I want to meet Steve. What a legend.

I like that he’s so fond of the role when many others would roll their eyes that they were on such a childish show

“The collective national trauma of my going to college” WHY DID THIS HIT SO HARD

This man is comfort personified. The world is so lucky to have him.

I think we need Steve Burns back in our lives. He's our generations Mr. Rogers. The way he speaks to you, his calmness, his empathy.

Decades later. Same person, same feelings. We need this in this fast changing awful world.

As a former certified Blue’s Clues kid, I think that the main appeal of the show to kid’s back then, and Steve references this, is the way that Steve spoke to the children. There is a certain level of respect that he gave the preschool viewership, speaking to them like human beings and asking them “What do you think?” It’s hard to imagine when you’re an adult, but as a kid, adults don’t really talk to you very often. They speak at you, but they don’t engage with you as another person. I think kids appreciated someone speaking to them, through the television set, in a way that made them feel respected and comfortable. I think that’s why people my age became attached to Steve as 3-6 year olds.

I'm a 35 year-old man, and hearing this guy's voice is like listening to my grandfather to my brain. It's the most surreal experience I've ever had. I watched this in tears. I was too old for Blue's Clues by the time I watched it. But I had much younger sisters, and I can remember sitting in the floor with them in the mornings before school and encouraging them to play along with Steve because they were so quiet. We didn't live in a loving home. Steve was my model for how to be a good big brother.

The greatest thing that Steve brought to the show was that he truly cared about the kids he was talking to, just like Fred Rogers. This wasn't just a gig for him. He still cares, which is why we love him.

I’m slightly embarrassed to say, Steve’s little talk with us last year actually made me tear up. To me it was like an old teacher who I trusted coming back to tell me everything will be ok. It felt so real and genuinely warmed my heart Edit: After seeing everyone’s replies, I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt this way!

the trauma of him going to college was not just national, it was INTERNATIONAL. I remember the day my brother sat me down and told me Steve had left for college and someone else would be taking over, it's burned into my memory because I think that's the first time my heart cracked open. The message during the pandemic had me bawling like crazy. It's so gladdening to see glimpses of Steve like this, to see that his life turned out well and that he's thriving still.

1:08 Him doing American Sign Language, however small and simple, for “Thank You” was so beautiful. ASL interpreter here.

I never truly realized how smart and thoughtful Steve was. You can tell he's very empathetic. It makes me happy to see how he can talk about his time at Blues Clues so fondly. It just seems like he's learned a lot about himself and the world, and it's cool to hear him talk about it. Very inspirational guy!

I remember being so sad as a child when Steve left, it was like watching your best friend move. Then when his video came out in 2021 saying hi to us I honestly cried a little and was surprised by how much it meant to see him and hear him address what happened. My son watches Blues clues now and I was dreading getting to the episode where Steve left. I sat and watched the whole thing with him, and it was sad all over again. Watching my son ask where he was in the next episode and explaining that sometimes people leave when they grow up. Decades later and he is still teaching curiosity and actual life lessons.

As a young mom back then, I trusted Steve with my little daughter. He has a gentle way that was not condescending but still treated them as the children they were. I loved blues clues. I was sad when Steve left the show but grateful to him. I hope Steve has a great life ❤

"I just wanna say, over all of these years, I never forgot you!" When that first dropped, I was almost in tears. Both of my daughters were toddlers when Blues Clues came out and it was such a huge part of our lives and something we bonded over. It was like reconnecting with someone who had a profound impact on your life, who had somehow remained frozen in time like our memories of him. 10 years later I had my first son, and he grew up with Joe. 12 years later I had my second son, and he's growing up with Josh. Blues Clue's is to millennials, gen z and the next generation what Sesame Street was to children of the 70s and 80s. What an amazing show!

I didn't grow up with Joe, or Josh. I grew up with Steve, so he's like the big brother I never had. His voice and face are the ones I remember. Call it a generational thing that all kids who grew up in the late 90s/early 00s, but to me, Steve is the OG voice of Blue's Clues.

There’s just something about him that just calms me and puts me at ease. He really was the Mister Rogers of that time. Now my daughter watches blues clues and loves him!

The reason we felt so heartbroken when Steve left was because we were a generation where a LOT of us had dysfunctional, or broken, homes and families. Our needs and emotions about things were brushed under the rug. Steve has such an amazing talent for talking to you as if there’s no one more he cares about in the world. He felt truly grateful for our help, and seemed to genuinely look at us and care about our opinions we were yelling at the screen. Very few people could do it with that much genuineness. He made us feel seen. For me, he was one of very few people in my childhood who made me feel important. It seems silly because it was just a kids show, but it’s true. I waited all day for blues clues to come on. I cried the day they aired the episode of him leaving, even though I was a year or two out of my blues clues phase, I watched with my little brother and was so sad he was going. Idk if he’s a match for Steve, but my kids watch Josh now, and he’s also very talented.

I'm glad he left in retrospect. While we were all sad and it hit us hard back then, it helped us to have an idea about what it's like to lose something you see all the time and are super close to as a child. In a way that isn't super traumatizing at the very least.