Burns was on the seventh season of the show, back in 1998. He secretly dated Kira, the show's casting director, while filming — of course, it eventually got out and all played out on-screen.
Two decades later, Burns spoke to Jezebel about the relationship.
"I think one of the only reasons I opened up to the experience was I was so attracted to her, and she was a good soul. It was almost cathartic to be able to tell her my story, and I almost forgot that there was a camera or that they were monitoring this and had a clinical psychologist analyzing me, you know what I mean? We both fell in love, really hard and deep. It got destructive," Burns said in 2019.
He also that MTV knew something was up when he didn't actively date around like the rest of the cast. He couldn't remember how exactly the story broke, but knew that "someone betrayed Kira on her end."
The relationship didn't end up working out.
"It's a terrible place for a relationship to blossom: on the set of a television show," he said.