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Former Blue clues star Steve Burns He claimed he made very little money in the Nickelodeon classic show.
“I got Blue clues Early (in my career), but every server I ever knew made more money than I did for the first many seasons of that show, ”revealed Burns, 51, on a chapter on Thursday, May 1, the “Soul Boom” podcast. “But I was very lucky, because Blue clues Was my side very busy forever. My real gig was, I was a voiceover. I fell into that early. “
Burns looked back at the start of his career in New York City in the early 1990s, where he dreamed of being an “unknown actor who made things off Broadway or to be To the Pacino. ”In fact, Burns got his big break with Nickelodeon after supporting himself with commercial voiceover, a gig that found him” Grim. “
The actor said he had landed his post Nickelodeon and changed life “completely by accident” when he was wrongly impressed with an early audition. At the time, Burns only took “serious actors auditions” for shows like Manslaughter: street life and Law and order.
The actor said, “One day I had an audition about what I thought was going to be a cartoon voice on a children’s TV show.
“I thought it was a voice. I went to the audition,” Burns went on. “And when I arrived, there was a camera in the room. And I thought, ‘Oh, S ***. I prefer to do something.’ Yes.
Although he had only two seasons, the Nicelodon Sitcom greeting your shorts has remained a cult classic since he first showed 31 years ago. The show follows a group of teenagers, as well as their strict counselor Kevin “AS” Lee (Kirk Baily), who spends their summers at Camp Anawana. The cast of the ensemble included characters including (…)
Burns remembered that his method of winning over Blue clues Producers were by standing as close to the camera as possible, thereby creating intimacy with the audience. Of course Burns landed the Blue clues Job and spent six years playing a fabricated version of himself on the Nickelodeon series. He received an Emmy Award nomination during the day in 2001.
After leaving Blue cluesBurns focused on voiceover for brands like Snickers, KFC and McDonald’s. A strange Internet subculture developed around the disappearance of Burns from the public eye in the early 2000s, including fakes claiming to have a fatal drug overdose or being killed in an accident. In fact, Burns stepped away to focus on his mental health.
The first TV actor and host revealed in 2022 that he had been been diagnosed with clinical depression Before leaving Blue clues. Burns explained on that “Soul Boom” podcast The Death Hoaxes He made him feel as if his continued existence is an inconvenient truth. “
“(It was) something I would hear from people. ‘Oh, I thought you were dead. Didn’t you die?’ And when it lasts for 10 years, it feels like a cultural option … you start to feel like you’re supposed to be (dead), ”he remembered.
Burns went on, “I was in, kind of, fluttering this depression after I left the show. But what many people don’t understand is that the internet started the internet and the world decided during the show, or decided a large portion of the world, that I died.”
The death was particularly damaging, Burns said, because some of his family members actually believed he was dead.
“I built a house in Brooklyn and never left it. I call it the ‘gray’ of my life,” said Burns. “It was about 10 years where I did nothing but, like, drinking a couple of bottles of wine every night on its own, watch mythbusters.… And just eat a Thai pad.”
Burns added, “I had, like, 50 lbs. I was completely unrecognizable. I didn’t know me. And everyone thought I was dead.
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Later in the interview, Burns explained that he turned his life around once he began to see a therapist to deal with his depression. Since then Burns has come back on television by writing several episodes of Nickelodeon’s revival of Blue clues (now entitled Blue clues and you!), as well as revenge on his role on camera alongside a new host Josh Dela Cross.
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