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People are hiring Halo's Master Chief voice actor Steve Downes to break up with their boyfriends for them - and he is glad to do it

You can also hire Master Chief for weddings, birthdays, and inspirational messages.

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News by Joseph Pete, Contributing Writer

Published on Thu Sep 11 2025

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Master Chief voice actor Steve Downes, the former DJ who voices one of the most iconic video game characters in history, records personalized messages for fans on Cameo. He makes videos for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, bachelor parties, retirements, and other special occasions. One request keeps coming up. Several girlfriends have hired Downes to break up with their Halo-loving boyfriends in the voice of Master Chief to soften the blow.

"I've been asked to perform wedding ceremonies, birthdays, and inspirational messages all the time," Downes says at Fan Expo Chicago. "Cameo, if you don't know, is also based in Chicago. People can ask you to wish somebody happy birthday, happy anniversary, works of encouragement, graduation for college or whatever. Occasionally, we get the ones who want you to break up with their boyfriends and want Master Chief to do it. And I do it."

Fellow castmate Tim Dadabo, who voices 343 Guilty Spark in Halo and was once asked to officiate a wedding in character, asked at Fan Expo Chicago if Downes said, "I need a weapon."

The line he often delivers to end things plays off Master Chief's last words in Halo 2: "Finishing the fight," which inspired the "Finish the Fight" tagline for Halo 3.

"Your fight is finished," he says.

He has not been asked to itemize all the reasons why someone is being broken up with, but said it's hard to break the news.

"It's not pretty," he says.

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