Steve From “Blue’s Clues” Just Checked In On “The Kids He Raised” After “Quiet On Set” Exposed A Dark Side To Their Childhoods, And People Are Seriously Emotional

In the series, a host of former child actors spoke out about their alleged experiences behind the scenes of several popular Nickelodeon shows throughout the late ’90s and early ’00s.

In addition to allegations from Drake Bell of being sexually abused as a child, troubling scenes from some of the network’s most beloved series have resurfaced, and viewers have been left horrified by the way the young stars were seemingly sexualized. 

Everything from The Amanda Show to Sam & Cat and All That has been reexamined, and fans have shared their heartache after hearing about how the casts of their favorite childhood shows were allegedly being treated during filming.

If you need reminding, Steve hosted the popular Nickelodeon children’s show Blue’s Clues, which premiered in 1996. The show followed Blue, a cartoon dog who left clues for her friends to follow.

Steve was 22 years old when he landed the hosting gig and would talk directly to the young audience as he followed Blue on her adventures. 

As a result, Steve was a constant presence in ’90s kids' lives until he left the series in 2002 “to go to college,” with Donovan Patton replacing him for the rest of the show’s original run. 

Steve launched his TikTok page in 2021, and while he has an impressive following, he very rarely shares videos.

And with just 31 posts on his profile in total, followers didn’t think that the timing of this one was a coincidence. 

One popular comment on the post reads, “I feel like he knew that the Nickelodeon fans needed this after the documentary came out. And this is the best response: How are you? Are you okay?”

“They need you. The kids who are grown now who watched Nickelodeon,” somebody else wrote. “Thanks for being here.”

“Not me crying the instant he asked 😭,” another confessed, while one more said, “After the Nickelodeon thing we need our Steve now more than ever.”

“It was my job to be utterly and completely full of joy and wonder at all times, and that became impossible,” he added. "I was always able to dig and find something that felt authentic to me that was good enough to be on the show, but after years and years of going to the well without replenishing it, there was a cost."

Since stepping away, Steve said, he had a “long period of healing," but his life didn’t become “more manageable” until after the death of his father in 2015 and his subsequent mourning.

In recent years, Steve has returned to the Blue’s Clues universe in a few ways, including appearing in a special Nick Jr. video for the show’s 25th anniversary in 2021 and in Paramount+’s revival series, Blue’s Clues and You.