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Steve Burns Gets Real About Blue's Clues Salary, Says 'Every Waiter I Ever Knew Made More Money Than I Did'

Steve Burns is opening up about his time on the Nickelodeon children's show 'Blue's Clues', saying in a new interview that he was a struggling voiceover actor even as the show itself was successful.

On Thursday, May 1, in an episode of the Rainn Wilson podcast Soul Boom, Burns, now 51, said he studied acting while attending college in Pennsylvania and came to Blue's Clues"entirely by accident." Burns added that he had long hair and a pack of cigarettes in his pocket at the time, and "thought for sure that I wasn't gonna get that part." Burns eventually sought help, however, telling Wilson on the podcast that he began working with a therapist and taking advice from his own former character, who would often ask viewers, "Will you help me?"

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