Nickelodeon Host Marc Summers Says He Walked Off Aloof on Situation After “Bait and Swap” Became Pulled
Aged Nickelodeon host Marc Summers printed that he left Aloof on Situation mid-filming after studying that the sequence was as soon as about Dan Schneider and Brian Peck—neither of whom he says he ever met.
Marc Summers is surroundings the story straight.
Two weeks after the commence of the docuseries Aloof on Situation: The Dim Aspect of Early life TV, which detailed allegations of sexual abuse and a toxic atmosphere at Nickelodeon, the previous Double Dare host acknowledged he was as soon as misled referring to the comely nature of the sequence.
“They requested me what I believed of Cut, and the indispensable 10 to 12 seconds, from what I realize, in this documentary is me asserting all these excellent stuff,” Summers, who appeared in the indispensable episode of the Investigation Discovery sequence, defined, on the radio recount Elvis Duran and the Morning Demonstrate April 5. “However they did a bait-and-change on me. They ambushed me.”
“They never suggested me what this documentary was as soon as no doubt about,” he persisted. “They showed me a video of one thing that I couldn't ponder was as soon as on Nickelodeon. And I acknowledged, 'Let's extinguish the tape comely here. What are we doing?'”
Within the episode, Summers, who hosted the young folks's sport recount from 1986 to 1993, mirrored on his time on the community for the period of the doc, replying, “Nickelodeon wasn't there to educate you. We had been there to own stress-free, to procure slimed, to be entertained.” He was as soon as then confirmed clips from Victorious, Zoey 101 and numerous reveals toddle by Dan Schneider, to which he requested in the sequence, “Did that air on Nickelodeon.”
The 72-365 days-former defined in the radio interview that he walked far flung from the docuseries after being suggested it would delve into the allegations of workplace misconduct levied at Schneider, who rose in the course of the ranks on the community in the late-'90s—to boot to dialogue coach Brian Peck's 2004 conviction for sexually assaulting a minor. Within the docuseries, Drake Bell came ahead because the then-unnamed minor.
Love fellow Cut alum Kenan Thompson, Summer season acknowledged he left sooner than Schneider's reign, so he never crossed paths with the previous govt. On the opposite hand, he expressed frustration that his involvement in Aloof on Situation suggested in every other case.
“These folks came in after and took over our studios,” Summer season emphasised. “I never met the person. I no doubt haven’t any idea about any of those things. I mean, I know Kenan from Kenan and Kel because we've done stuff together. However as far as anything that came about on that recount with any of those folks, I never met any of them.”
“I didn't know anybody,” the previous Unwrapped host persisted. “On the opposite hand it made it seem treasure I knew those folks.”
About a weeks after filming, Summers shared that he got a phone name asserting he wouldn't be featured—sooner than later studying in every other case.
“I went, 'Immense,'” he recalled. “Then they known as me about four weeks ago and acknowledged, 'Effectively, you're in it, however you're totally in the indispensable fragment of it because you talked referring to the sure stuff of Nickelodeon.'”
However he alleges he wasn't suggested the beefy scope of his involvement.
“What they didn't repeat me, and they lied to me about,” he added, “was as soon as the true fact that they keep in that numerous factor where they had the digicam on me after they ambushed me.”
On the opposite hand, the sequence directors Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, suggested E! News in an announcement, “We are sure with every participant referring to the personality of our initiatives.”
Protect studying to scrutinize extra bombshells from Aloof on Situation.
Drake Bell Says He Became Sexually Abused at 15
“I've never talked about this outside of treatment,” Drake Bell acknowledged in the ID sequence, sharing for the indispensable time that he was as soon as sexually abused by Brian Peck.
The sequence describes the extent of the abuse the use of graphics from the reliable charges in opposition to Peck—a dialogue and acting coach who also appeared in bit roles akin to “Predicament Man” on All That—since the Drake & Josh actor most long-established to now not inch into detail on digicam.
“The abuse was as soon as intensive and it bought ravishing brutal,” Bell acknowledged. Suggested by a producer (who's heard however now not viewed) to totally fraction no topic he was as soon as proud of, he replied, “Why don't you ponder of the worst stuff someone can perform to somebody as a sexual assault and that'll answer your expect. I don't know the design else to set up it.”
Peck, now 63, was as soon as arrested in August 2003 and in the extinguish sentenced in October 2004 to 16 months in reformatory after pleading no contest to a count apiece of lewd act upon unprejudiced a exiguous one 14 or 15 by an individual 10 years older and oral copulation of an individual below 16, based totally totally on sentencing documents reviewed by E! News. He was as soon as also required to register as a intercourse culprit.
E! News reached out to Peck for utter however didn’t hear support. Nickelodeon suggested NBC News in an announcement, “Now that Drake Bell has disclosed his identity because the plaintiff in the 2004 case, we’re dismayed and saddened to be taught of the trauma he has persisted, and we commend and supplies a rob to the energy required to attain ahead.”
Drake Bell Describes How Brian Peck Bought Him On my own
Bell described Peck purposely driving a wedge between him and his manager father Joe Bell (who also appears to be like in the ID sequence and backs up his son's story) so as that he might maybe maybe use time beyond regulation with the teen, who had a recurring feature on The Amanda Demonstrate sooner than he was as soon as provided his own sitcom, Drake & Josh, in 2004.
Peck would take him to auditions, Bell acknowledged, and then own him sleep over, asserting it was as soon as too late to drive him support dwelling. One night, Bell described, he wakened on the sofa (where he acknowledged he constantly slept) and Peck was as soon as sexually assaulting him.
“I froze and was as soon as in full shock and had no idea what to perform or react,” Bell acknowledged, “and I had no idea procure out of the shrink back.”
He recalled Peck being apologetic, however the abuse didn't extinguish—and Bell acknowledged he didn't repeat somebody, now not even when the mother of his then-girlfriend realized one thing was as soon as unhealthy and took him to a therapist. He admittedly believed that if he acknowledged anything, his profession might maybe maybe be over.
In the end, he acknowledged he “exploded” and suggested his mother everything, and he or she straight away known as police. Bell acknowledged that detectives made him give an “excruciatingly detailed” story of the abuse after which had him name Peck to suggested a confession over the phone while they listened in. Peck “suitable began a beefy-on confession,” Bell acknowledged, and was as soon as therefore arrested on Aug. 20, 2003.
Dan Schneider Reaches Out
Bell also acknowledged in Aloof on Situation that Dan Schneider, creator and govt producer of The Amanda Demonstrate and Drake & Josh, was as soon as at the moment to ask him if he wished anything and in every other case had his support after Peck was as soon as arrested.
In every other case, he didn't hear noteworthy from anybody he worked with, either because they didn't know or “perchance because it's a terribly soft topic,” Bell mirrored. “Indubitably the totally individual that I undergo in thoughts being there for me was as soon as Dan. Unfortunately, there was as soon as no treatment and I was as soon as left to my very own gadgets…which at that age doubtlessly isn't the very finest factor.”
Brian Peck's Relief Procedure in Hollywood
The details in Bell's case had been sealed for years. However as soon as they had been unsealed, eager events might maybe maybe look who wrote the 41 letters of give a rob to filed on Peck's behalf sooner than his 2004 sentencing.
No one from Nickelodeon, including Schneider, wrote a letter, based totally totally on Industry Insider journalist Kate Taylor—whose 2022 investigative piece detailing allegations of misconduct in opposition to Schneider impressed the ID sequence. (“We wrote Kate moderately of a flowery letter,” sequence co-director Mary Robertson suggested Conceitedness Ravishing, “after which acknowledged that we’d fancy to companion and develop upon her already improbable reporting.”)
Among folks who did write letters: James Marsden, Saturday Evening Reside participant Taran Killam, Boy Meets World actors Will Friedle and Rider Solid, and Increasing Disaster fogeys Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns.
Marsden wrote, as his letter was as soon as quoted in the sequence, that he'd known Peck (who had bit parts in 2000's X-Men and 2003's X2) for 14 years and “what Brian has been through in the closing 365 days is the suffering of a hundred men.” Killam, who appeared on The Amanda Demonstrate and Drake & Josh, wrote of Peck, per the sequence, “I know for a incontrovertible truth that he regrets any mistakes made.”
Thicke died in 2016. E! News has reached out to reps for Marsden, Killam, Friedle, Solid and Kerns for utter however has now not heard support.
However, as Taylor illustrious in the ID sequence, it was as soon as totally imaginable that none of the actors knew the extent of the charges in opposition to Peck after they wrote the letters.
Kerns acknowledged in an announcement included in Aloof on Situation that she had since learned that her letter was as soon as according to “full misinformation. Radiant what I know now, I never would own written the letter.”
Solid and Friedle now not too long ago expressed remorse for standing by Peck, who appeared on a pair of episodes of Boy Meets World in 1999. They acknowledged on a February episode of Pod Meets World, which they cohost with Danielle Fishel, that they didn't know the true story on the time.
“He didn't tell that nothing had came about,” Solid acknowledged. “So, by the time we heard about this case and knew anything about it, it was as soon as constantly in the context of, 'I did this factor, I’m guilty. I inch to take no topic punishment the govt. determines, however I'm a victim of jailbait. There was as soon as this hot guy. I suitable did this factor, and he's underage.' And we bought that storyline.”
Added Friedle, “We're sitting in that courtroom on the unhealthy side of everything. The victim's mother became and acknowledged, 'Detect at your whole illustrious folks you introduced with you. And it doesn't trade what you did to my kid.' I suitable sat there looking to die. It was as soon as treasure, 'What the hell am I doing here?' It was as soon as horrifying your whole formula around.”
Brian Peck's Creepy Pen Friend
In Aloof on Situation, All That alum Kyle Sullivan recalled all people from the recount going to Peck's dwelling for a barbecue. The actor and dialogue coach—who also worked on The Amanda Demonstrate and Amanda Bynes' subsequent sitcom What I Love About You—had a room beefy of traditional toys and droll books, Sullivan acknowledged, and a garage devoted to Planet of the Apes memorabilia.
Sullivan recalled that Peck was as soon as giving him a tour when he showed the teen a painting of a clown made by the late serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who murdered as a minimal 33 boys and young men, based totally totally on reliable accounts of his crimes, and was as soon as finished in 1994. Peck also had a stack of letters purportedly from Gacy that had been given a voice of pride in the nightstand subsequent to his mattress, based totally totally on Sullivan.
E! News also reached out to Peck referring to his Gacy fandom alleged in the sequence however didn’t hear support.
Kid-Friendly Programming?
Aged solid contributors from reveals toddle by Schneider talked in Aloof on Situation about either feeling sad on the time—or in hindsight—about among the costumes they had been made to wear and pretty plenty of imperfect-out gags that might had been of questionable model however had been televised for all Nickelodeon viewers to scrutinize.
Leon Frierson, who was as soon as on All That from 1997 until 2000, recalled having to wear flesh-coloured tights and underclothes to play a superhero known as “Nostril Boy” with gear that “appeared treasure a penis and testicles on my shoulders.” In one sketch, Nostril Boy sneezed and a glob of snot hit a girl in the face.
In level of fact, slimy substances hitting ladies in the face was as soon as a repeat joke in a bunch of Schneider's reveals, including Zoey 101, as identified in the ID sequence by Jamie Lynn Spears' costar Alexa Nikolas. (She and iCarly alum Jennette McCurdy are amongst the previous Nickelodeon actors who own previously spoken out in opposition to the community for failing to guard young abilities.)
“It was as soon as suitable sad,” Frierson acknowledged in the sequence. However, he added, no one idea to whinge to Schneider. “It was as soon as necessary to be on his comely side,” the now-37-365 days-former acknowledged of the All That author-producer, “and he made it known who was as soon as on his comely side.”
A spokesperson for Schneider suggested E! News, “The entirety that came about on the reveals Dan ran was as soon as fastidiously scrutinized by dozens of intriguing adults and authorized by the community. If there was as soon as an real mission with the scenes that some folks, now years later, are 'sexualizing,' they might maybe maybe be taken down, however they invent now not seem like, they are aired constantly all around the enviornment on the present time gathered, loved by each and each young folks and fogeys.”
“Undergo in thoughts, all tales, dialogue, costumes, and make-up had been totally authorized by community executives on two coasts,” the gain persisted. “A standards and practices community be taught and in the extinguish authorized every script, and programming executives reviewed and authorized all episodes. As successfully as, each day on every set up of residing, there had been constantly fogeys and caregivers and their web site visitors staring at filming and rehearsals. Had there been any scenes or outfits that had been monstrous in any formula, they would had been flagged and blocked by this multilayered scrutiny.
“Unfortunately, some adults project their grownup minds onto young folks' reveals, drawing faux conclusions about them.”
Unrealistic Expectations
Katrina Johnson, who was as soon as on All That between 1994 and 1997 and didn't act noteworthy after the aughts, shared necessary capabilities from her time on the sketch recount that the now-41-365 days-former is gathered jumpy by.
“In some unspecified time in the future the producers known as my dwelling and spoke to my fogeys and acknowledged, 'Hey, Katrina's getting too paunchy. We already own a paunchy one, she will be able to't be the paunchy one,'” she alleged in Aloof on Situation. While her mother and pa stuck up for her, she added, “I mean, that stuck with me. 'You might maybe maybe seemingly also't be the paunchy one.' I gathered hear those phrases in my head to on the present time.”
Soon after, Johnson acknowledged, she hit puberty and now now not appeared treasure unprejudiced a exiguous one, so she was as soon as sooner or later “edged out…by a younger model of me.”
Concerning the many recollections in the ID sequence, Nickelodeon suggested NBC News in an announcement:
“Even though we won’t corroborate or negate allegations of behaviors from productions decades ago, Nickelodeon as a topic of protection investigates all formal complaints as fragment of our dedication to fostering a stable and legit workplace atmosphere free of harassment or numerous forms of monstrous conduct. Our most sensible priorities are the successfully-being and easiest pursuits now not suitable of our workers, casts and crew, however of all young folks, and we own adopted a big number of safeguards over the years to reduction make certain we’re residing as a lot as our own excessive standards and the expectations of our audience.”
Not the Merely Tone
Bryan Christopher Hearne, who was as soon as on seasons seven and eight of All That, was as soon as tasked with taking half in the youngest rapper of all time, “Lil Fetus,” one more personality requiring a skintight bodysuit. He acknowledged in the ID sequence that he overheard someone on set up of residing tell that the “skin tone desires to be charcoal.”
The crack made him “teary-eyed,” he recalled, however by then he was as soon as too afraid to repeat his mother, Tracey Browne, who had already developed a popularity on set up of residing for being at the moment to insist up in her son's defense. Which, based totally totally on each and each Browne and Hearne in the docuseries, was as soon as frowned upon.
“I grew to change into an oddball,” Browne acknowledged. At the equal time, she acknowledged, it didn't inch disregarded to her that her son was as soon as being requested to play Black stereotypes. Working instance, she acknowledged, Hearne taking half in the feature of a kid hustling Woman Scout-kind cookies in the formula of someone promoting capsules.
Castmate Kyle Sullivan, though he known as out Schneider for being weirdly into goo-centric jokes, acknowledged in Aloof on Situation that he “on the whole had a comely relationship with Dan.”
In Hearne's opinion, nonetheless, Schneider “had a nicer relationship with among the many white young folks. My time on Nickelodeon performed a mountainous fragment in how I dealt and gathered take care of racial factors.”
A spokesperson for Schneider diusputed this characterization, noting the producer's “long history prominently featuring Black actors in his tv reveals,” to boot to his subsequent TV and film initiatives with All That breakout stars Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.
Two for the Mark of One
It wasn't suitable the formative years who recall experiencing a toxic work voice on these Schneider-toddle reveals, based totally totally on Aloof on Situation.
Jenny Kilgen acknowledged in the ID sequence that, when she and Christy Stratton had been employed as writers on The Amanda Demonstrate in 1999, they had been requested to interrupt up a wage, as of their mixed salaries had been equal to what one author of their voice was as soon as supposed to invent.
However, as Kilgen recalled, she was as soon as hungry for work and didn't wish to press her luck by complaining. She also acknowledged she didn't beat again when Schneider requested if he might maybe maybe suitable name her and Stratton “the ladies” as a alternative of by name.
Moreover, each and each females acknowledged, Schneider would invent feedback about females now not being silly, and he'd play demeaning pranks.
On one more event, when Schneider created the personality of “Penelope Taynt” for Bynes to play on The Amanda Demonstrate, Stratton and Kilgen acknowledged he suggested them to now not repeat community professionals that the name was as soon as an intended double entendre, and they saved their mouths shut for peril of his wrath.
When Kilgen stumbled on out that their atomize up wage was as soon as in opposition to union principles, she suggested the Writers Guild of The US. Kilgen acknowledged Schneider known as her at dwelling and suggested her that, if he ever stumbled on out for definite that she was as soon as the one who reported him, that she'd never work for Nickelodeon or any numerous Viacom-owned entity again.
Aloof on Situation illustrious: “Dan Schneider denies Jenny's claims and states that he had no regulate over salaries.”
A spokesperson for Schneider reiterated as noteworthy to E! News, noting The Amanda Demonstrate was as soon as produced by a obvious firm (Tollin/Robbins), however even on reveals he created, salaries “had been managed by the community and also by the WGA.”
As for these recollections of Schneider's habits, “unfortunately writers' rooms had been usually off-shade places, in particular bigger than Twenty years ago,” the spokesperson acknowledged.
“Dan is amazingly sorry for his habits that contributed to that atmosphere and he has grown loads since then. That habits is clearly unhealthy and never for the workplace, and in actual fact he would never act that formula again.”
The set up Drake Bell Is Now
“I undergo in thoughts the whole abusive events however, everything outside of that, is extremely blurry to me,” Bell acknowledged in the sequence. “Which is a bummer because I experienced pretty plenty of big things in my existence and my profession for the period of all this time, however it completely was as soon as so overshadowed and ruined by what I was as soon as going through on the within.”
The actor, who shares a son with estranged indispensable other Janet Von Schmeling (they separated in 2022), pleaded guilty in 2021 to one count every of tried exiguous one endangerment and disseminating topic inappropriate to juveniles after exchanging texts with a minor. He was as soon as sentenced to community service and probation.
Bell acknowledged on his behalf in a video posted on-line that he'd exchanged “reckless and irresponsible” texts with a fan, now not realizing the fan was as soon as a minor, however ceased communication as at the moment as he stumbled on out. “I wish to invent sure,” he acknowledged, “there had been no sexual photos, nothing physical between me and this individual.”
His own abilities as a teen “led to pretty plenty of self-destruction and pretty plenty of self-loathing,” Bell acknowledged in the sequence. “I’d are trying to acceptable traipse with alcohol abuse, substance abuse, no doubt suitable anything to flee.” As for his 2021 arrest, “I took accountability for that, did what was as soon as requested of me, however the media grabbed a defend of so noteworthy misinformation, and it completely destroyed me. And I started to scurry out of regulate.”
In April 2023 he was as soon as reported lacking in Daytona Seaside, Fla., however he became up the following day and laughed it off. “You inch away your phone in the auto and don't answer for the night and this?” he tweeted on the time. Earlier that 365 days, nonetheless, he had reportedly sought outpatient treatment for substance abuse.
Within the sequence, the Ready Regular Scramble! artist acknowledged that if he'd “persisted down that course,” it might possibly maybe maybe maybe need been the dwell of him.
He hit “rock bottom,” he persisted, so he checked into treatment, where he at closing underwent disaster and trauma treatment, “surrounded by those that for the indispensable time in a protracted time wanted to acceptable look me get better.”
Dan Schneider Would “Assemble Issues Another way”
Schneider's toddle at Nickelodeon resulted in 2018 when the community canceled his sequence Sport Shakers after three seasons, while Henry Hazard persisted on for a fifth. In a laudatory joint assertion referencing his “string of lasting, groundbreaking hits,” the community thanked the producer and his Schneider's Bakery crew for their “immeasurable contributions to Nickelodeon,” while Schneider acknowledged they would “constantly dwell mountainous followers of the community.”
However reports at the moment adopted that his ouster was as soon as the of too many complaints made referring to the prolific converse creator's habits in the put up-#MeToo generation. (Four folks with data of the overview suggested the Unique York Events in 2021 that an inner investigation sure that Schneider is prone to be verbally abusive however stumbled on no proof of sexual misconduct.)
He acknowledged in an announcement to Aloof on Situation that “here is now not a suitable description” of why he and Nickelodeon parted ways. “On the opposite hand,” he added, “on the present time, I’d completely perform some things in a different way. I've learned loads over the years about be a better boss.”
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