Many '90s kids grew up adoring Steve Burns from the Nickelodeon children's show, Blue's Clues. The actor was famous for the green striped shirt he wore on the series and his full head of dark hair. Here's how Burns' look has changed and what he's up to now.

Steve Burns' trademark dark locks are no more. Recent photos of him show off his bald head, which is due to hair loss — something that the actor has been open about. During the 2006 Nickelodeon special Behind the Clues: 10 Years with Blue, Burns admitted that his hair loss was actually the main reason he left Blue's Clues.

He said:

"I knew I wasn't going to be doing children's television all my life, mostly because I refused to lose my hair on a kid's TV show. And it was happening [...] fast."

According to Entertainment Weekly, Burns started to lose his hair at age 29. Many rumors had floated around about Burns after his departure from Blue's Clues — like that he'd gotten into a car crash or turned to drugs.



But the truth isn't quite so sensational. It seems he just wanted to go bald in private.

During his original audition, Steve Burns actually had a totally different hairstyle and looked nothing like the series' eventual Steve character. In a 1999 interview with The New York Times, Burns says he had long hair and an earring, looking like a "skate rat."

At the time, he mostly auditioned for voice-over roles, so he thought his appearance didn't matter, according to Spin Magazine.

Network executives weren't a fan of his grungy look, but Burns was the clear favorite of Nickelodeon's pre-school test audiences. Blue's Clues creator and executive producer Traci Paige Johnson told Spin Magazine:

"Of the 100 people we auditioned, he was, by far, the realest. He loved kids, but he didn't want to make a career out of it."

And that turned out to be true. While Burns spent five successful years on Blue's Clues, he moved on in 2002 and pursued his next chapter: music.

Watch this video to see how Steve from Blue's Clues looks totally unrecognizable today!

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