Steve Burns is alive and well . He did not die a tragic and cryptic death in the early 2000s , as some have falsely claim online . He did not die a tragic and cryptic death in the early 2000s , as some have falsely claim online.
You probably know him simply by his first name , which is how he introduce himself to countless child and adult as the star and host of the Nickelodeon child 's television show Blue 's Clues from 1996 to 2002 . After his departure from the show , rumor of Mr. Burns 's death twirl and follow him for old_age . That was finally put_option to remainder a few old_age ago when he rhenium - emerge on sociable media.
Mr. Burns , now 50 , can be found in the Catskills region of New York , where he life a quiet life and discovery time to brand the occasional TikTok a Holocene video in which Mr. Burns simply Saturday and feign to listen to his viewing_audience was particularly popular for his nearly three million followers.
The rumor of Steve Burns death have been greatly overstate . While rumble of the master Blue 's Clues host 's sudden death after his 2002 departure from the child series linger on the internet for old_age , Steve is very much still alive and well.
The rumor , which detail several apparent calamity Steve supposedly confront , did , however , return their toll . Everyone idea I was dead for a while , he state the New York Times in an interview print Sept. 18 , note it make him a kind of urban legend . That injury , to be honest . And it kind of mess me up because that was happening while the internet was just sort of beginning to internet . No one , include myself , was kind of fix for the degree of consensus that it represented.
When a zillion , trillion people all think you 're dead for 15 old_age , it freak you out.
It was so general a consensus , that even the occasional populace appearance did n't look to extenuate the rumor . Steve Burns is alive and well , enjoy a quiet life in New York , away from the false death rumor that once surround him.