FlaWlessMonoLith answered Friday December 2 2005, 12:59 pm: yes steve did die it was a tragic accident involving driving to college he was driving there and had all his stuff but a semi drunk driver pulled out and they crashed it was at night and the driver was drunk so he forgot to turn lights on the truck so steve couldnt even see it coming....sad.......but his cuz took over the job :) and i heard that blue is getting laramengitus [ FlaWlessMonoLith's advice column | Ask FlaWlessMonoLith A Question ]
xo_jenna_respects_ox answered Thursday December 1 2005, 7:17 pm: He didn't die lol, he went to college and then made a wierd cd, everyone thinks it's crappy, hope i helped!!
xxoBriannax answered Thursday December 1 2005, 7:09 pm: I heard he went into rehab for doing drugs and then I heard he over dosed and died. Don't quote me on the last one, but I do know he went to rehab. [ xxoBriannax's advice column | Ask xxoBriannax A Question ]
XO_LiZ_69_0X answered Thursday December 1 2005, 7:08 pm: there was rumors that he died from an overdose of drugs, but he really didn`t. He made a CD which i`m told really sucks and he is perfectly healthy..although him on drugs would really be a good answer as to why he is on a show with cartoons and a dog that likes to leave clues around a neighoborhood and talking salt and pepper shakers..i know i`d be on drugs by day 2.
*ashlee* answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 9:31 pm: i heard that he dies of a drug overdose. i believed it cause he always looked and acted real drugged up. but apparently he just left the show to go to college and become a singer. im not 100% though, why dont you try googling it or something, you might have better luck. [ *ashlee*'s advice column | Ask *ashlee* A Question ]
jazzy11 answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 9:12 pm: Some people think he died but some think he didn't. i had went on the internet a couple of days ago and wrote is steve from blues clues dead. They said it was just a rumor. So i think he still alive. I doubt if he's dead.rate please!! [ jazzy11's advice column | Ask jazzy11 A Question ]
x0brittany0x answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 8:12 pm: Steve Burns, host of Blues Clues the popular television show for preschoolers broadcast on Nickelodeon, is exceedingly healthy and not the slightest bit dead. He's neither been run over by a car nor done himself in by a heroin overdose, the two most popular paths this particular rumor has taken. (Another version claims he was arrested for heroin possession. That too is false, as is the rumor about his being a porn star.) More elaborate versions of the tale claim that he's been replaced on the show by a look-alike.
Rumors about Steve's demise began surfacing early in December 1998, much to the distress of Steve and his family. To help refute the whispers, Burns guested on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on 17 December 1998, and he and Blue's Clues cocreator Angela Santomero also appeared on Today to discuss how parents might talk to their children about the rumor. Nonetheless, this tidbit continues to circulate no matter how often or in how many places Steve shows up very much alive.
Some parallels have been drawn between the rumors of this TV show's host's demise and equally specious claims that Paul McCartney died and was replaced with a look-alike while with the Beatles. At least half-jokingly, some viewers point to various items on the show or behaviors of the host as "clues" to Burns' death. Though not exactly yet on par with the 'I buried Paul' "proofs," things are getting there.
Rumors of very-much-alive celebrities being dead are not uncommon. French movie star Isabelle Adjani battled the rumor of her demise in 1987, when whispers of her languishing on a deathbed and finally kicking the bucket swept France. In common with Burns' experience, a wealth of detail was often provided by those passing along the story. Some versions specified the hospital where she had supposedly been cared for and even the number of the hospital room where she drew her last breath. To combat the rumor, Adjani made heavily-publicized appearances on the national evening news, accompanied by the president of France's Ordre des Medicins (comparable to the American Medical Association), who certified her to be in the pink of health. Even so, there were still those who believed the rumor. In a poll taken only one month after her debunking blitz, more than two million people expressed their unshaken conviction she was ill.
However, the impact of such a rumor is not quite the same when applied to a children's host:
"It's very different from Paul McCartney," said Angela Santomero, the show's chief writer and one of its co-creators. "It's very different when these are 2- to 5-year-old children you're talking about. Steve has become someone they trust, someone they almost have a play date with and go on adventures with, and thinking he might not be there anymore is really upsetting to them . . . It's like losing a caregiver."
The easy answer about why this rumor is circulating is to pin it on society's distrust of children's hosts, as expressed in rumors about these nice, smiling men not being all they seem. it might all be a lot simpler than that. In the same year he began with Blue's Clues, Burns put in an appearance on the popular TV show Law and Order. In the episode (original air date 19 April 1995), he played Kevin Jeffries, an apparently drugged-out kid who died while in police custody. It's possible the current rumor has its roots in someone's seeing "Steve of Blue's Clues" die, albeit on a completely different TV show. This sort of confusion would also explain the recurring theme of a heroin overdose rather than some other manner of death's being associated with him. The role he played on Law and Order was one of an autistic young man who died after police mistakenly attributed his strange behavior to drug use. To children unable to fully distinguish between an actor and his television role, seeing or hearing Steve "die" on one television program could lead to a belief that the actor himself had died. [ x0brittany0x's advice column | Ask x0brittany0x A Question ]
smallbutsweet90 answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 8:11 pm: lol wow.. rumors. nah he didnt die, and he didnt do drugs either. he decided he wanted to go to college so he left the show went to college, and tried to get into singing, his cd is horrible haha. i read it in the newspaper so yeah =) [ smallbutsweet90's advice column | Ask smallbutsweet90 A Question ]
MelSP answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 8:03 pm: HE GOT BUSTED FOR DRUGS!!!! NO LIE...lol do u really think anyone could do that show without being on something!! [ MelSP's advice column | Ask MelSP A Question ]
MikeDaBoobNinja answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 7:52 pm: hahhahaha this question made me laugh. I don't think he could make a show where he said 'I'm leaving, here's my cousin' from beyond the dead. Unless he was going into rehab or something, and then died from an overdose of something in there. He's probibly just in France.
xopinkbarbie answered Wednesday November 30 2005, 7:34 pm: I always heard that he died from drugs or something like that. But I may not be like 100% correct or anything. Maybe you could search Google and find out? He used to my favorite guy on that show though when I was little, Aww. Haha :) [ xopinkbarbie's advice column | Ask xopinkbarbie A Question ]
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