Dan Schneider Reacts After All That's Lori Beth Denberg Says He “Preyed” On Her
After All That alum Lori Beth Denberg alleged that aged Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider “preyed” on her, he known as the claims “wildly exaggerated and, most steadily, fallacious.”
Dan Schneider is as soon as extra defending his personality.
The aged Nickelodeon producer is addressing contemporary allegations made by aged All That cast member Lori Beth Denberg, who—in a brand contemporary interview with Business Insider—accused Schneider of exhibiting her porn and initiating phone sex eventually of their time on the expose.
Denberg, 48, starred in All That from 1994 to 1998, while Schneider, 58, served as a producer on the comedy collection. In Business Insider, Denberg alleged that, around her nineteenth birthday in 1995, Schneider confirmed her clips of pornography on his computer eventually of a gathering in his dwelling of job, telling the outlet, “I basically feel treasure that is the first time he preyed on me.”
Nonetheless, Schneider is combating those claims. “Lori Beth's accusations of me are wildly exaggerated,” he instructed E! News in a Would possibly per chance 14 assertion, “and, most steadily, fallacious.”
“As I in actuality bask in previously talked about, there bask in been times, specifically within the early years of my career, that I made mistakes and exhibited heart-broken judgment as a leader,” he added. “If I did that with admire to Lori Beth, I sincerely yell sorry to her. Nonetheless I can not yell sorry for issues I didn’t beget.”
In Schneider's assertion to E! News, he illustrious that the writer of the Business Interiorr story was as soon as all in favour of the Composed on Region: The Darkish Facet of Childhood TV documentary.
“The incontrovertible fact that an Executive Producer of Composed on Region would pursue allegations referring to what would possibly maybe per chance also just bask in came about between adults with regards to thirty years within the past,” Schneider talked about, “easiest per week after I filed a defamation lawsuit accusing Composed on Region of being intentionally fallacious and deceptive—seems greater than coincidental.”
Within the docuseries, Schneider, who created The Amanda Show conceal, Drake & Josh, iCarly and Victorious sooner than parting ways with Nickelodeon in 2018, was as soon as accused of scandalous habits on his TV presentations.
“Nowadays the docuseries Composed on Region highlighted mistakes I made and heart-broken judgment I exhibited eventually of my time at Nickelodeon, most of which came about a protracted time within the past eventually of my early career as a producer, engaged on presentations for Tollin/Robbins Productions,” he talked about in a assertion to E! News Would possibly per chance 1. “There isn’t any such thing as a question that I was as soon as infrequently a corrupt leader. I’m sincerely apologetic and regretful for that habits, and I’ll proceed to preserve shut accountability for it.”
“Nonetheless, after seeing Composed on Set and its trailer, and the reactions to them, I sadly beget not bask in any preference however to preserve shut ethical action against the of us within the support of it,” Schneider persisted. “Of their profitable try to lie to viewers and elevate ratings, they went beyond reporting the actual fact and falsely implied that I was as soon as all in favour of or facilitated horrific crimes for which exact child predators bask in been prosecuted and convicted.”
The docuseries also featured info on Brian Peck, the acting and dialogue coach who served over a year in penal advanced within the child sex abuse case animated Drake Bell.
“I beget not bask in any objection to anyone highlighting my screw ups as a boss,” Schneider concluded, “however it undoubtedly is cross to lie to thousands and thousands of of us to the fallacious conclusion that I was as soon as in any blueprint all in favour of scandalous acts treasure those committed by child predators. I owe it to myself, my family, and the many very just exact of us all in favour of making these presentations to dwelling the file straight.”
For extra info from Composed on Region, preserve reading.
Drake Bell Says He Turned into Sexually Abused at 15
“I've never talked about this start air of remedy,” Drake Bell talked about within the ID collection, sharing for the first time that he was as soon as sexually abused by Brian Peck.
The gathering describes the extent of the abuse utilizing graphics from the official funds against Peck—a dialogue and acting coach who also regarded in bit roles equivalent to “Jam Man” on All That—for the reason that Drake & Josh actor preferred to not streak into detail on camera.
“The abuse was as soon as broad and it got interesting brutal,” Bell talked about. Suggested by a producer (who's heard however not considered) to easiest portion no subject he was as soon as chuffed with, he answered, “Why don't you imagine the worst stuff somebody can beget to somebody as a sexual assault and that'll respond your question. I don't know the blueprint else to place it.”
Peck, now 63, was as soon as arrested in August 2003 and eventually sentenced in October 2004 to 16 months in penal advanced after pleading no contest to a depend apiece of lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 by a person 10 years older and oral copulation of a person under 16, in accordance to sentencing documents reviewed by E! News. He was as soon as also required to register as a sex perpetrator.
E! News reached out to Peck for comment however didn’t hear support. Nickelodeon instructed NBC News in a assertion, “Now that Drake Bell has disclosed his id because the plaintiff within the 2004 case, we are dismayed and saddened to study of the trauma he has persisted, and we commend and give a enhance to the energy required to come forward.”
Drake Bell Describes How Brian Peck Bought Him On my own
Bell described Peck purposely utilizing a wedge between him and his manager father Joe Bell (who also seems within the ID collection and backs up his son's story) so that he would possibly maybe per chance well expend beyond regular time with the teen, who had a recurring position on The Amanda Show conceal sooner than he was as soon as equipped his comprise sitcom, Drake & Josh, in 2004.
Peck would preserve shut him to auditions, Bell talked about, and then bask in him sleep over, announcing it was as soon as too leisurely to drive him support home. One night time, Bell described, he aroused from sleep on the couch (the build he talked about he constantly slept) and Peck was as soon as sexually assaulting him.
“I iced up and was as soon as in total shock and had no belief what to beget or the supreme technique to react,” Bell talked about, “and I had no belief the supreme technique to salvage out of the convey.”
He recalled Peck being apologetic, however the abuse didn't stay—and Bell talked about he didn't repeat anyone, not even when the mom of his then-lady friend realized one thing was as soon as cross and took him to a therapist. He admittedly believed that if he talked about anything else, his career would be over.
Sooner or later, he talked about he “exploded” and instructed his mother the whole lot, and he or she straight away known as police. Bell talked about that detectives made him give an “excruciatingly detailed” story of the abuse after which had him name Peck to instructed a confession over the phone while they listened in. Peck “just started a full-on confession,” Bell talked about, and was as soon as therefore arrested on Aug. 20, 2003.
Dan Schneider Reaches Out
Bell also talked about in Composed on Region that Dan Schneider, creator and executive producer of The Amanda Show conceal and Drake & Josh, was as soon as snappy to place a question to him if he wished anything else and otherwise had his support after Peck was as soon as arrested.
In every other case, he didn't hear mighty from anyone he labored with, both because they didn't know or “maybe since it's a truly sensitive discipline,” Bell mirrored. “No doubt doubtlessly the most easy person that I keep in mind being there for me was as soon as Dan. Unfortunately, there was as soon as no remedy and I was as soon as left to my comprise gadgets…which at that age doubtlessly isn't the correct part.”
Brian Peck's Strengthen System in Hollywood
The records in Bell's case had been sealed for years. Nonetheless after they had been unsealed, concerned events would possibly maybe per chance well look who wrote the 41 letters of give a enhance to filed on Peck's behalf sooner than his 2004 sentencing.
No one from Nickelodeon, in conjunction with Schneider, wrote a letter, in accordance to Business Insider journalist Kate Taylor—whose 2022 investigative fragment detailing allegations of misconduct against Schneider inspired the ID collection. (“We wrote Kate a exiguous a treasure letter,” collection co-director Mary Robertson instructed Conceitedness Fine, “after which talked about that we would maybe are searching to accomplice and extend upon her already fabulous reporting.”)
Among of us that did write letters: James Marsden, Saturday Night time Stay player Taran Killam, Boy Meets World actors Will Friedle and Rider Real, and Rising Distress of us Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns.
Marsden wrote, as his letter was as soon as quoted within the gathering, that he'd known Peck (who had bit aspects in 2000's X-Men and 2003's X2) for 14 years and “what Brian has been by within the final year is the suffering of a hundred men.” Killam, who regarded on The Amanda Show conceal and Drake & Josh, wrote of Peck, per the gathering, “I do know for a incontrovertible fact that he regrets any mistakes made.”
Thicke died in 2016. E! News has reached out to reps for Marsden, Killam, Friedle, Real and Kerns for comment however has not heard support.
Nonetheless, as Taylor illustrious within the ID collection, it was as soon as fully capability that not one of many actors knew the extent of the funds against Peck after they wrote the letters.
Kerns talked about in a assertion incorporated in Composed on Region that she had since realized that her letter was as soon as in step with “total misinformation. Luminous what I do know now, I never would bask in written the letter.”
Real and Friedle currently expressed remorse for standing by Peck, who regarded on just a few episodes of Boy Meets World in 1999. They talked about on a February episode of Pod Meets World, which they cohost with Danielle Fishel, that they didn't know the exact story on the time.
“He didn't yell that nothing had came about,” Real talked about. “So, by the time we heard about this case and knew anything else about it, it was as soon as constantly within the context of, 'I did this part, I’m guilty. I’m going to preserve shut no subject punishment the authorities determines, however I'm a victim of jailbait. There was as soon as this scorching man. I just did this part, and he's underage.' And we bought that storyline.”
Added Friedle, “We're sitting in that court on the cross facet of the whole lot. The victim's mother grew to change into and talked about, 'Seek at your whole famend of us you introduced with you. And it doesn't swap what you did to my kid.' I just sat there searching to die. It was as soon as treasure, 'What the hell am I doing here?' It was as soon as horrifying your whole blueprint around.”
Drake Bell Says No One Ever Apologized In regards to the Letters
On episode 5, “Breaking the Silence,” Bell talked about he appreciates Friedle and Real's point of view, however it undoubtedly didn't the least bit swap how he felt about the day he went to court docket for Brian Peck's sentencing in 2004 and observed his abuser's facet of the room crammed with supporters.
No longer one one who wrote a give a enhance to letter for Peck had reached out to him, Bell talked about, in conjunction with the Boy Meets World stars.
Friedle voiced Deadpool on just a few episodes of the bewitching Closing Spider-Man, starring Bell as Peter Parker, in 2013 and 2016, and they didn't discuss it, the actor talked about.
Nonetheless, Bell added, “It's a truly worrying discipline to elevate up, especially in a work ambiance. And that's the part that's onerous about this, because all people deals with their trauma in a form of ways. All people comes to a form of conclusions at a form of times in their lives… I in actuality treasure their point of view now, however that day is so ingrained in my thoughts.”
E! News has reached out to Friedle for comment.
Brian Peck's Creepy Pen Excellent friend
In Composed on Region, All That alum Kyle Sullivan recalled all people from the expose going to Peck's home for a barbecue. The actor and dialogue coach—who also labored on The Amanda Show conceal and Amanda Bynes' subsequent sitcom What I Fancy About You—had a room crammed with classic toys and humorous books, Sullivan talked about, and a garage dedicated to Planet of the Apes memorabilia.
Sullivan recalled that Peck was as soon as giving him a tour when he confirmed the teen a painting of a clown made by the leisurely serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who murdered not not as a lot as 33 boys and younger men, in accordance to official accounts of his crimes, and was as soon as executed in 1994. Peck also had a stack of letters purportedly from Gacy that had been given a dwelling of pleasure within the nightstand next to his bed, in accordance to Sullivan.
E! News also reached out to Peck referring to his Gacy fandom alleged within the gathering however didn’t hear support.
Shane Lyons Says Brian Peck Made “Passes” at Him
All That alum Shane Lyons spoke out for the first time on episode 5, telling host Soledad O'Brien that there bask in been “absolutely some passes” made at him by Peck and he didn't are mindful of it on the time.
“When he requested me what blue balls was as soon as, I believed they had been racket balls,” talked about Lyons, who regarded as a supporting player on 23 episodes between 2002 and 2004. Remembering how blind to the time duration he was as soon as, the aged actor persisted, “As I mediate support now as an grownup, as a 36-year-weak, would I ever bask in a conversation with a 13-year-weak boy treasure he had with me? No. It makes absolutely zero sense.”
For doubtlessly the most section, then again, he was as soon as grateful that nothing extra serious came about to him, and he applauded Bell for telling his story.
E! News has reached out to Peck however has not but heard support.
Kid-Pleasant Programming?
Faded cast participants from presentations stride by Schneider talked in Composed on Region about both feeling murky on the time—or in hindsight—about just among the costumes they had been made to place on and various erroneous-out gags that would possibly maybe per chance bask in been of questionable taste however had been televised for all Nickelodeon viewers to acknowledge.
Leon Frierson, who was as soon as on All That from 1997 except 2000, recalled having to place on flesh-colored tights and lingerie to play a superhero known as “Nose Boy” with accessories that “looked treasure a penis and testicles on my shoulders.” In a single sketch, Nose Boy sneezed and a glob of snot hit a girl within the face.
Of route, slimy substances hitting girls within the face was as soon as a repeat shaggy dog story in a set of Schneider's presentations, in conjunction with Zoey 101, as pointed out within the ID collection by Jamie Lynn Spears' costar Alexa Nikolas. (She and iCarly alum Jennette McCurdy are amongst the aged Nickelodeon actors who bask in previously spoken out against the network for failing to present protection to younger skills.)
“It was as soon as just murky,” Frierson talked about within the gathering. Nonetheless, he added, no one idea to bitch to Schneider. “It was as soon as crucial to be on his correct facet,” the now-37-year-weak talked about of the All That writer-producer, “and he made it known who was as soon as on his correct facet.”
A spokesperson for Schneider instructed E! News, “Every part that came about on the presentations Dan ran was as soon as fastidiously scrutinized by dozens of concerned adults and celebrated by the network. If there was as soon as an exact discipline with the scenes that some of us, now years later, are 'sexualizing,' they’d be taken down, however they’ll not be, they are aired consistently in every single build the world on the contemporary time tranquil, loved by both kids and of us.”
“Take into account, all stories, dialogue, costumes, and make-up had been fully celebrated by network executives on two coasts,” the procure persisted. “A requirements and practices community read and eventually celebrated each and each script, and programming executives reviewed and celebrated all episodes. As neatly as, each and each day on each and each dwelling, there bask in been constantly of us and caregivers and their chums searching at filming and rehearsals. Had there been any scenes or outfits that had been scandalous in any blueprint, they’d bask in been flagged and blocked by this multilayered scrutiny.
“Unfortunately, some adults project their grownup minds onto kids' presentations, drawing fallacious conclusions about them.”
Unrealistic Expectations
Katrina Johnson, who was as soon as on All That between 1994 and 1997 and didn't act mighty after the aughts, shared info from her time on the sketch expose that the now-41-year-weak is tranquil scared by.
“One day the producers known as my home and spoke to my of us and talked about, 'Hiya, Katrina's getting too fat. We already bask in a fat one, she can't be the fat one,'” she alleged in Composed on Region. While her mom and pop caught up for her, she added, “I mean, that caught with me. 'It is probably going you’ll per chance per chance also't be the fat one.' I tranquil hear those phrases in my head to for the time being.”
Rapidly after, Johnson talked about, she hit puberty and not looked treasure a kid, so she was as soon as eventually “edged out…by a youthful model of me.”
Regarding the many recollections within the ID collection, Nickelodeon instructed NBC News in a assertion:
“Though we can not corroborate or tell allegations of behaviors from productions a protracted time within the past, Nickelodeon as a subject of policy investigates all formal complaints as section of our dedication to fostering a earn and skilled dwelling of work ambiance free of harassment or a form of forms of scandalous habits. Our highest priorities are the neatly-being and ideal pursuits not just of our workers, casts and crew, however of all younger of us, and now we bask in got adopted a form of safeguards over time to aid ensure we dwell as a lot as our comprise excessive requirements and the expectations of our target market.”
No longer the Factual 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 within the youngest rapper of all time, “Lil Fetus,” one other personality requiring a skintight bodysuit. He talked about within the ID collection that he overheard somebody on dwelling yell that the “skin tone ought to be charcoal.”
The crack made him “teary-eyed,” he recalled, however by then he was as soon as too terrorized to repeat his mother, Tracey Browne, who had already developed a reputation on dwelling for being snappy to talk up in her son's defense. Which, in accordance to both Browne and Hearne within the docuseries, was as soon as frowned upon.
“I grew to change into an oddball,” Browne acknowledged. On the identical time, she talked about, it didn't streak unnoticed to her that her son was as soon as being requested to play Gloomy stereotypes. To illustrate, she talked about, Hearne taking half within the position of a kid hustling Woman Scout-form cookies within the form of someone promoting medication.
Castmate Kyle Sullivan, even though he known as out Schneider for being weirdly into goo-centric jokes, talked about in Composed on Region that he “in general had an correct relationship with Dan.”
In Hearne's thought, then again, Schneider “had a nicer relationship with just among the a form of white kids. My time on Nickelodeon played a gargantuan section in how I dealt and tranquil contend with racial points.”
A spokesperson for Schneider diusputed this characterization, noting the producer's “lengthy history prominently featuring Gloomy actors in his tv presentations,” as neatly as his subsequent TV and film initiatives with All That breakout stars Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.
Two for the Tag of One
It wasn't just the adolescents who recall experiencing a toxic work dwelling on these Schneider-stride presentations, in accordance to Composed on Region.
Jenny Kilgen talked about within the ID collection that, when she and Christy Stratton had been hired as writers on The Amanda Show conceal in 1999, they had been requested to gash up a wage, as in their blended salaries had been equal to what one writer in their dwelling was as soon as purported to design.
Nonetheless, as Kilgen recalled, she was as soon as hungry for work and didn't are searching to press her success by complaining. She also talked about she didn't push support when Schneider requested if he would possibly maybe per chance well just name her and Stratton “the ladies” in dwelling of by title.
Furthermore, both females talked about, Schneider would design feedback about females not being humorous, and he'd play demeaning pranks.
On one other occasion, when Schneider created the personality of “Penelope Taynt” for Bynes to play on The Amanda Show conceal, Stratton and Kilgen talked about he instructed them to not repeat network professionals that the title was as soon as an supposed double entendre, and they kept their mouths shut for apprehension of his wrath.
When Kilgen chanced on out that their gash up wage was as soon as against union ideas, she instructed the Writers Guild of The US. Kilgen talked about Schneider known as her at home and instructed her that, if he ever chanced on out for obvious that she was as soon as the one who reported him, that she'd never work for Nickelodeon or any a form of Viacom-owned entity again.
Composed on Region illustrious: “Dan Schneider denies Jenny's claims and states that he had no preserve an eye on over salaries.”
A spokesperson for Schneider reiterated as mighty to E! News, noting The Amanda Show conceal was as soon as produced by a special firm (Tollin/Robbins), however even on presentations he created, salaries “had been controlled by the network and likewise by the WGA.”
As for these recollections of Schneider's habits, “sadly writers' rooms had been in general off-shade places, especially greater than two decades within the past,” the spokesperson talked about.
“Dan will probably be quite sorry for his habits that contributed to that ambiance and he has grown loads since then. That habits is clearly cross and not for the dwelling of work, and absolutely he would never act that blueprint again.”
The build Drake Bell Is Now
“I keep in mind the whole abusive events however, the whole lot start air of that, will probably be quite blurry to me,” Bell talked about within the gathering. “Which is a bummer because I experienced quite loads of ample issues in my life and my career eventually of all this time, however it undoubtedly was as soon as so overshadowed and ruined by what I was as soon as facing on the internal.”
The actor, who shares a son with estranged wife Janet Von Schmeling (they separated in 2022), pleaded guilty in 2021 to one depend each and each of tried child endangerment and disseminating subject scandalous to juveniles after exchanging texts with a minor. He was as soon as sentenced to neighborhood provider and probation.
Bell talked about on his behalf in a video posted on-line that he'd exchanged “reckless and irresponsible” texts with a fan, not realizing the fan was as soon as a minor, however ceased communique as soon as he chanced on out. “I are searching to design obvious,” he talked about, “there bask in been no sexual images, nothing bodily between me and this person.”
His comprise skills as a teen “ended in quite loads of self-destruction and quite loads of self-loathing,” Bell talked about within the gathering. “I’d try to just salvage away with alcohol abuse, substance abuse, basically just anything else to salvage away.” As for his 2021 arrest, “I took responsibility for that, did what was as soon as requested of me, however the media grabbed a preserve of so mighty misinformation, and it absolutely destroyed me. And I started to plug out of preserve an eye on.”
In April 2023 he was as soon as reported missing in Daytona Seaside, Fla., however he grew to change into up the next day and laughed it off. “You enable your phone within the automobile and don't respond for the night time and this?” he tweeted on the time. Earlier that year, then again, he had reportedly sought outpatient remedy for substance abuse.
Within the gathering, the Ready Real Tear! artist talked about that if he'd “persisted down that course,” it will bask in been the tip of him.
He hit “rock bottom,” he persisted, so he checked into remedy, the build he eventually underwent bother and trauma remedy, “surrounded by of us that for the first time in a truly very lengthy time wanted to merely look me enhance.”
Dan Schneider Would “Form Issues In a completely different blueprint”
Schneider's stride at Nickelodeon ended in 2018 when the network canceled his collection Game 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 network thanked the producer and his Schneider's Bakery team for his or her “immeasurable contributions to Nickelodeon,” while Schneider talked about they’d “constantly stay gargantuan fans of the network.”
Nonetheless experiences mercurial adopted that his ouster was as soon as the consequence of too many complaints made about the prolific sigh material creator's habits within the post-#MeToo skills. (Four of us with files of the evaluation instructed the Recent York Events in 2021 that an internal investigation positive that Schneider would be verbally abusive however chanced on no proof of sexual misconduct.)
He talked about in a assertion to Composed on Region that “that will not be a decent description” of why he and Nickelodeon parted ways. “Nonetheless,” he added, “on the contemporary time, I’d absolutely beget some issues differently. I've realized loads over time about the supreme technique to be the next boss.”
Dan Schneider's Apology Promtps Laughter From All That Alums
Based fully mostly on the preliminary premiere of Composed on Region, Schneider sat down for an interview with iCarly actor BooG!e wherein the producer apologized for any boorish or insensitive habits, however denied allegations of racial discrimination or sexualizing the younger actors on his presentations.
Hearne and fellow All That alum Giovannie Samuels outright snickered when O'Brien introduced up Schneider's mea culpa.
“His interview as a whole, I believed it was as soon as humorous,” Hearne talked about. “If I’d be candid, Dan was as soon as an actor sooner than all of this. So I mediate that he brushed off some chops and gave us a nice performance. The build was as soon as all of this apologizing when Jennette McCurdy's e book came out?”
In her bombshell 2022 memoir, I'm Overjoyed My Mother Died, McCurdy detailed, amongst a form of issues, feeling treasure she had to place on a bikini on iCarly and being forced to drink alcohol by a person she easiest known as “The Creator.”
Hearne persisted, “What's an apology with out accountability? Realistically, as soon as you preserve shut the scandalous jokes away, beget you bask in a expose?”
E! News has reached out to Schneider for touch upon the latest Composed on Region episode however has but to hear support.
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