Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns tells millennials he’s ‘glad we’re still friends’ in touching message

Blue’s Clues’ original host Steve Burns just sent a touching message to his grown-up fans, 25 years after the show’s start.

The former Nickelodeon talent, now 47, was a fixture of many millennials’ childhoods, tasked to help cartoon dog Blue solve mysteries on the children’s series.

Looking back on the years since in a surprise video on Nick Jr’s Twitter, Burns – who left the show for college in 2002 – told audiences: ‘I just wanted to say that after all these years I never forgot you. Ever. And I’m super glad we’re still friends.’

Retro: The former Nickelodeon talent, now 47, was a fixture of many millennials’ childhoods, tasked to help cartoon dog Blue solve mysteries on the children’s series

‘Hi, you got a second?’ he asked, donning an updated version of his green striped polo along with a baseball hat with his signature green crayon on it.

Signaling he’s grown up a bit, Steve donned square glasses and asked everyone: ‘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,”‘ he said of his college adventures, which left his brother Joe in charge while Steve went away for ‘like, a really long time.’

‘Can we just talk about that?’ Steve wondered, before admitting his exit was ‘kind of abrupt.’

It turns out the star did actually go to school back then, noting it ‘was really challenging by the way, but great because I got to use my mind and take a step at a time and now I literally am doing many of the things that I wanted to do.’

True friends: Looking back on the years since in a surprise video on Nick Jr’s Twitter, Burns – who left the show for college in 2002 – told audiences: ‘I just wanted to say that after all these years I never forgot you. Ever. And I’m super glad we’re still friends’

Growing up: ‘Look at all you have done and all you have accomplished in all that time,’ he told audiences

And in the meantime, he wasn’t the only one who grew, telling viewers: ‘Look at all you have done and all you have accomplished in all that time.’  

‘And it’s just… it’s just so amazing, right?’ Steve went on. ‘I mean, we started out with clues and now it’s what? Student loans, and jobs, and families, and some of that has been kind of hard, you know? I know you know.’ 

Burns’ message then struck a grateful tone, saying: ‘I wanted to tell you that I really couldn’t have done all of that without your help and 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.’

‘I guess I just wanted to say that after all these years, I never forgot you. Ever. And I’m super glad we’re still friends.’

New guys! He gathered with the new hosts at the end of the clip

Post-Blues: After leaving the show, Burns embarked on a music career, working with Flaming Lips producer David Fridmann and drummer Steve Drozd on an alternative rock album called Songs for Dustmites in the early 2000s

After leaving the show, Burns embarked on a music career, working with Flaming Lips producer David Fridmann and drummer Steve Drozd on an alternative rock album called Songs for Dustmites in the early 2000s.

Talking about his time on Blue’s back in 2003, he told Entertainment Weekly: ‘I’m really protective of the show and the new guy [Donovan Patton].’

‘But the nice thing is now I get to bust that character out whenever I want to. It’s kind of like being Clark Kent.’

And a new generation is now going to get the opportunity to discover with Blue. Nickelodeon greenlit a new movie, Blue’s Clues & You this past summer.

New generation: Nickelodeon greenlit a new movie, Blue’s Clues & You this past summer, giving new fans a chance to explore the world with Blue and friends