Blues Clues’original host Steve Burns is looking back at his first and final episodes.
As a part of Nick Jr.’s 25th anniversary celebrations for the show, Burns, 47, sat with fellow leads Donovan Patton (Joe) and Joshua Dela Cruz (Josh) last week towatch their first episodes.
Burns — who was the host from 1996 to 2002 — laughed as he watched his character’s dance moves in his first episode. “He’s delightful!” he said about himself. “I’m exhausted just watching this man.”
“That was really, really sweet. I gotta go call my therapist, I’ll be back,” he joked.
Towards the end of the video, the group watched Burns' final episode when he told his dog Blue and audiences at home that he would be going away to college.
In the scene, Blue gave him a hug and Burns responded, “I’m gonna miss you too.”
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“Will you take good care of my brother Joe while I’m away at college?” he asked the audience. “Great, because sometimes he needs a little help.”
Burns, Patton, 43, and Cruz, 32, all pouted while watching that moment.
The originalBlue Cluesstar put his hand up to his mouth as he processed viewing a clip of his final episode in 2002.
“Aww,” the 47-year-old actor said. “Well, that was really sweet.”
Burns recently filmed a video explaining to his now grown-up fans why hemade an “abrupt” departure from the show.
Dressed in his iconic green-striped shirt, he said, “You remember how, when we were younger, we used to run around and hang out with Blue and find clues and talk to Mr. Salt and freak out about the mail and do all the fun stuff? And then one day, I was like, ‘Oh hey, guess what? Big news. I’m leaving!’ Can we just talk about that?”
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He added, “I mean, we started out with clues and now, it’s what? Student loans, and jobs, and families. And some of it has been kind of hard, you know? I know you know. I wanted to tell you that I really couldn’t have done all of that without your help. In fact, all the help that you helped me with when we were younger is still helping me today. Right now. And that’s super cool.”
In conclusion, Burns said he “just wanted to say that, after all these years, I never forgot you … ever. And I’m super glad we’re still friends.”
source: people.com
