'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.

He loved kids but he didn't want to make a career out of it. Johnson said that "what made Burns a great children's host was that 'he didn't want to be a children's host. " In 2000 People magazine included Burns in their annual list of America's most eligible bachelors.

Steven Michael "Steve" Burns (born October 9 1973) is an American entertainer. He is best known as the original host of the long-running children's television program Blue's Clues.