"[2] Burridge left SMart in 2003, feeling he had "outgrown [his] role as a children's TV presenter," and wanted to move "out of the limelight".
[7][8] He also designed several large denim butterflies, which went on display on the streets of London, as part of an advertising campaign for Levi Strauss & Co.'s "Live Unbuttoned" 501 jeans.
[9] In 2011, Burridge's piece, a full-sized unassembled airfix model of Ayrton Senna's McLaren MP4/6 Formula One car, sold at auction for €187,000.
[10][11] In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre released The World of Supersaurs: Raptors of Paradise, the first of a major six-book series,[12] written by Burridge.
The book was accompanied by a free app that uses AR technology to bring the illustrations to life and also had a mini-game with 50 missions that are completed by exploring the pages.
[2] He was close friends with Speight and the two formed an "on- and off-screen double act" and regularly attended the Regency Rooms comedy nights together.