Former Blue’s Clues star Steve Burns has driven fans wild after he contemplated starting an OnlyFans for ‘validating’ dirty talk.
Burns, 52, starred on the hit kids show from 1996 to 2002 but seems to have now found a whole new audience after he humorously considered the sexy career move on the latest episode of his podcast, Alive.
While Burns admitted to struggling with dirty talk, he can see himself doing a version of it in which he seductively offers a woman praise and a listening ear.
‘I can’t even bring myself to talk dirty,’ he told guest Maitland Ward. ‘Maybe I could have in another life ‘cause I was a voiceover guy forever.’
‘I feel, like, because of my old job, I’m not allowed to do that. I think it’s vestigial from how I evolved professionally. I wouldn’t even know how to do it. I feel if I tried to do it, it would have to be super-nice guy, like, “Hey baby girl, I’m so valuing your perspective right now.”‘
‘I can hear the grit in your voice,’ Maitland, a former Boy Meets World star who now works in adult entertainment, said.
Former Blue’s Clues star Steve Burns has driven fans wild after he contemplated starting an OnlyFans for ‘validating’ dirty talk
The 52-year-old actor still feels tethered to the wholesome role he portrayed on TV screens from 1996-2002
‘You’ve really opened my mind a lot here. I think maybe I should drop an OnlyFans where I just do that, where I just say validating things in dirty talk voice.
‘Like, “What have you done to your hair? It looks absolutely fantastic. Don’t change a thing.”‘
‘I think girls would love that actually,’ Maitland said laughing.
‘”No, no, I’m totally listening. I’m totally listening. Please tell me everything about Brenda at work.” I feel like I could do that,’ Burns said.
It seems Burns is onto something, as fans eager for the ‘validating’ sexy talk made their voices heard in the comments section.
‘SHUT UP! YES! DO IT! VALIDATE ME STEVE!!’ one wrote.
‘You have no idea the fandom you’ve awoken,’ another posted with a flame emoji.
‘No, but for real. Some Sultry Steve affirmations? Yes please,’ another wrote.
He rose to fame as the live-action host on the popular late 90s TV show and exited in 2002 when his character left for college. Donovan Patton and Josh De La Cruz (pictured) replaced him in the following seasons until the show ended in 2006
‘I feel like you’re under-estimating the market for people who just want to be spoken kindly to and validated (in a soft gravelly voice),’ another posted.
‘There is a market for this much needed service,’ one similarly said.
‘I’ve never wanted to subscribe to an OF as much as I do right now,’ another said.
‘@alivewithsteveburns you absolutely need to do this! It’s what us women need right now!’
‘The way this would take off,’ another wrote.
‘Um. I would 100% pay for that Only Fans,’ one posted.
Steve launched his new podcast in September in an effort to reconnect with fans and cover life’s challenging subjects; pictured in April
‘Steve would make so much money!!!!!’ another posted.
Burns rose to fame as the live-action host on the popular late 90s TV show and exited in 2002 when his character left for college.
Donovan Patton (Joe) and Josh De La Cruz (Josh) replaced him in the following seasons until the show ended in 2006.
He launched his new podcast in September in an effort to reconnect with fans and cover life’s challenging subjects.
Promoting the episode on Instagram, the official podcast account captioned a snippet, ‘Steve tries spicy talk, ends up affirming your worth as a person.’
Speaking to People last month, Steve said former Blue’s Clues viewers often emphasize the impact her had on their childhoods.
‘They tell me that I raised them, which I didn’t, but it’s an interesting thing that they feel that way — we are relating to media, we are absorbing it into our DNA,’ he reflected.
Steve added, ‘And that’s why I think it’s imperative that we start showing up as people and we start remembering that there’s a human person on the other side of the screen, always, and that person has a fragile human soul.’
‘And I personally believe that we have a certain responsibility to those fragile human souls. I think that this technology is about to swallow us whole. I can’t imagine we’ll just put it away, but we need to humanize it in some way,’ he poignantly noted.
