Steve is not freaken dead!!!!!!! - Big Big Forums

suziebee20 · 02-28-2003, 08:52 PM

The guy on blues clues- I don't really care much about him however everyone keeps telling me he died of a heroin overdose! I looked it up, found about 80 sites, even snopes.com HE'S NOT DEAD!!!!!!!! Yet people still continue to argue with me- yeah he is, I saw it on the news... I saw it on Nick Jr.... I emailed Nick Jr. and they said he is... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRR!!

carry on...

ckerr4 · 02-28-2003, 09:21 PM

LMAO!!!!!

Yep, he's still alive and well!

Strangely enough

he's magically transported into our house every evening through the magic of the VCR!!

He's pursuing a music and acting career outside of Blue's Clues - if all those people would take a minute, that info is NOT that difficult to find, lol!!

rain_cries · 02-28-2003, 09:22 PM

2002 Update: This craggy old rumor has been revitalized by Steve Burns' permanent departure from Blue's Clues in April 2002. Needless to say, it's still not true. More...

Dear Guide:

I don't have any direct experience with this one, but a coworker mentioned that he was watching the Today Show or Good Morning America or some other breakfast TV show, and heard that there was a rumor going around that Steve Burns (Steve from the Nick Jr. show Blue's Clues) was dead.

Apparently, panicked parents were calling and emailing the producers by the hundreds. The morning TV show had both the producer of Blue's Clues and Steve himself as guests to debunk the rumor.

Dear Reader:

Nothing puts a crimp in your day like finding out you're dead. Steve Burns has attested to that on The Today Show and in other public appearances he has made since 1999 where the Internet scuttlebutt was brought up.

According to the producers of Blue's Clues, the story first began popping up on the Internet around Thanksgiving in 1998. No one knows why. At one point it was spreading so fast that Burns' own mother heard it and phoned him to make sure he was still alive (more from E! Online).

The whole episode is strikingly similar to actor Scott Baio's experience earlier that same year. His parents called him, sobbing, after hearing rumors that he'd died in a car crash the same day that comedian Chris Farley passed away. Everyone seemed to be convinced of Baio's death except the "deceased" himself.

"After a while I started answering the phone, 'I'm not dead,'" he told New York Times Magazine.

If it had been me, I'd have left a message on my answering machine and refused to pick up the phone until the hysteria passed. How many times a day do you want to have to tell people you're not dead? Even once is too many.

Sources and further reading:

Get a 'Clue': Kid Host NOT Dead
From E! Online News
Baio Returns from the Dead
From The Minnesota Daily

Rumors of Celeb Deaths Greatly Exaggerated
From About.com

1busymomma · 02-28-2003, 09:52 PM

LOL, ya know what amazes me is that people cannot just STOP for two friggin seconds to find out the truth before they go spouting off about something!! That is really annoying. lol, glad he is not dead but happily pursuing a dream.

Donnagg123 · 03-01-2003, 10:56 AM

It all keeps going around

Remember the Bonsai Kitten or what was the one where you were supposed to delete something from your computer because it was supposedly a virus and was going to "go off" on a certain day? In Thamlets words...WHATEVER!

ckerr4 · 03-01-2003, 05:39 PM

LOL @ cab! Wouldn't that have been some episode? "What do you think Blue wants to plead today? I know, let's play Blue's Clues to figure it out!"

1busymomma · 03-01-2003, 08:26 PM

LOL cab!!!!!!

MsLynn · 03-02-2003, 09:36 PM

if he overdosed on Heroine, did he schedule it in advance??? awfully considerate of him to inform everyone so they could interview and get his replacement and do some transitional shows with both of them before he decided to overdose, DON'T SOME PEOPLE THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MommyG3 · 03-03-2003, 04:20 PM

If it isn't one e-mail/regular rumor it is another. I remember being a senior in high school and a friend telling me Jon Bon Jovi had AIDS. Sheesh...some peeps.