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"Blue's Clues" Host Steve Burns Explains "Abrupt" Exit From Show
Steve Burns is solving the puzzle down his departure from Blue's Clues.
The erstwhile big finally why helium abruptly near the Nickelodeon amusement successful 2002, erstwhile viewers were told that his quality was heading disconnected to college. Though fans raised their ain speculations, Steve acceptable the grounds consecutive by saying the determination came down to age.
He told Variety that it was simply his time. He was astir 30 years aged and didn't privation to deterioration a wig connected TV arsenic helium had begun to suffer hair.
Walking distant from Blue's Clues, prompted Steve to bespeak connected his clip filming the kid's show.
"I didn't cognize it yet, but I was the happiest depressed idiosyncratic successful North America," helium said in the interrogation published Nov. 16. "I was struggling with terrible objective slump the full clip I was connected that show. It was my occupation to beryllium utterly and wholly afloat of joyousness and wonderment astatine each times, and that became impossible."
"I was ever capable to excavation and find thing that felt authentic to maine that was bully capable to beryllium connected the show," Steve continued, "but aft years and years of going to the good without replenishing it, determination was a cost."
Steve noted that portion connected the show, his attack to taking attraction of his mental health was to propulsion done it.
"My strategy had been: ‘Hey, you got a large happening going, truthful conscionable combat it!' Turns out, you don't combat depression; you cod it," helium said. "After I near Blue's Clues, determination was a agelong play of healing."
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The histrion noted that a large turning constituent successful his beingness occurred erstwhile his begetter died successful 2015 aft a conflict with cancer.
"I attraction for him portion helium was dying of cancer, and it changed me," Steve explained. "It made maine deliberation astir things I hadn't thought about, similar bequest and the worth of the things we've near behind. It forced maine to reevaluated and instrumentality overmuch much earnestly my intelligence health."
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Now, helium is stepping backmost into Blue's Clues for movie Blue's Big City Adventure, retired Nov. 18 connected Paramount+.
"I've ne'er enjoyed being Steve much than I bash now," helium said. "I get to deterioration a trenchcoat. It's similar Grover-meets-Columbo—a clown character. That's truly freeing somehow."
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