Drake & Josh Solid Reunites for First Time in Over 10 Years
Drake & Josh alums Josh Peck and Drake Bell reunited with their onscreen fogeys Nancy Sullivan and Jonathan Goldstein June 8 at the 2025 Nostalgia Con in Anaheim, Calif.
Josh Peck purchased to hug his brother Drake Bell at their cast reunion.
The Drake & Josh stars reunited with their onscreen fogeys Nancy Sullivan and Jonathan Goldstein at Nostalgia Con 2025 June 8, marking the principle time in better than 10 years that the four actors possess come together as a crew, consistent with Folks.
Whereas attending the tournament in Anaheim, Calif., the crew posed for photos with convention-goers and spoke on stage right through a panel discussion moderated by fellow Nickelodeon alum Daniel Curtis Lee, who starred in Ned’s Declassified Faculty Survival Files, as viewed in photos and movies shared to social media.
Josh additionally honored the meet up with a fun video that leaned into a popular social media trend. In the clip shared to Instagram June 9, Nancy mouthed the words, “Why are you proceed to talking to my ex?” In response, Josh lip-synced about his onscreen fogeys’ marriage, “He’s my Dad. You’re actually quiet married?” as Jonathan looked on show cloak.
Despite the incontrovertible fact that Drake and Josh’s reunion with their “fogeys” marked the tip of a decade apart, the earlier showcase leads met up earlier this 300 and sixty five days and mirrored on their mixed feelings about their time at Nickelodeon, including the sexual abuse Drake stated he experienced as a miniature one well-known particular person, which he printed in the 2024 documentary sequence Still on Explain: The Darkish Aspect of Kids TV.
“You know that the moments that possess been giant possess been giant, and we possess been incredibly lucky to derive to enact this thing that we cherished,” Josh told Drake right through the March episode of the Accurate Guys podcast. “However there’s additionally the fact of the entirety you went through and the entirety that used to be an journey for a miniature one who used to be unacceptable in so many ways and you’ve purchased to wrestle with this.”
He continued, “I bear in mind folk would demand me referring to the showcase, and I’d reveal, ‘Successfully, I misplaced a hundred kilos and needed to derive sober at 21. Did I appear chuffed?’ Love, it’s a bit of a stamp.”
Learn on for more bombshells from the Still on Explain documentary.
Drake Bell Says He Used to be Sexually Abused at 15
“I've by no scheme talked about this outside of remedy,” Drake Bell stated in the ID sequence, sharing for the principle time that he used to be sexually abused by Brian Peck.
The sequence describes the extent of the abuse the utilization of graphics from the legit expenses against Peck—a dialogue and performing coach who additionally looked in bit roles reminiscent of “Predicament Man” on All That—due to the the Drake & Josh actor preferred to no longer roam into ingredient on camera.
“The abuse used to be intensive and it purchased magnificent brutal,” Bell stated. Told by a producer (who's heard nonetheless no longer viewed) to handiest share no matter he used to be chuffed with, he replied, “Why don't you watched of the worst stuff somebody can enact to somebody as a sexual assault and that'll resolution your question. I don't know the scheme else to position it.”
Peck, now 63, used to be arrested in August 2003 and in the smash sentenced in October 2004 to 16 months in penal complex after pleading no contest to a rely apiece of lewd act upon a miniature one 14 or 15 by a particular person 10 years older and oral copulation of a particular person below 16, consistent with sentencing documents reviewed by E! Files. He used to be additionally required to register as a intercourse culprit.
E! Files reached out to Peck for issue nonetheless did not hear aid. Nickelodeon told NBC Files in a assertion, “Now that Drake Bell has disclosed his id because the plaintiff in the 2004 case, we’re dismayed and saddened to be taught of the trauma he has endured, and we commend and gives a rob to the strength required to come aid forward.”
Drake Bell Describes How Brian Peck Purchased Him By myself
Bell described Peck purposely riding a wedge between him and his manager father Joe Bell (who additionally looks in the ID sequence and backs up his son's myth) so that he would possibly perhaps well employ more time with the teen, who had a recurring role on The Amanda Notify earlier than he used to be offered his possess sitcom, Drake & Josh, in 2004.
Peck would take him to auditions, Bell stated, and then possess him sleep over, announcing it used to be too unhurried to power him aid dwelling. One evening, Bell described, he wakened on the sofa (the keep he stated he repeatedly slept) and Peck used to be sexually assaulting him.
“I iced up and used to be in complete shock and had no belief what to enact or get out how to react,” Bell stated, “and I had no belief get out how to derive out of the scenario.”
He recalled Peck being apologetic, nonetheless the abuse didn't close—and Bell stated he didn't expose somebody, no longer even when the mom of his then-female friend realized one thing used to be unsuitable and took him to a therapist. He admittedly believed that if he stated anything, his profession would be over.
At closing, he stated he “exploded” and told his mother the entirety, and he or she straight called police. Bell stated that detectives made him give an “excruciatingly detailed” myth of the abuse after which had him name Peck to instructed a confession over the phone whereas they listened in. Peck “honest started a paunchy-on confession,” Bell stated, and used to be subsequently arrested on Aug. 20, 2003.
Dan Schneider Reaches Out
Bell additionally stated in Still on Explain that Dan Schneider, creator and govt producer of The Amanda Notify and Drake & Josh, used to be mercurial to demand him if he wished anything and otherwise had his aid after Peck used to be arrested.
Otherwise, he didn't hear distinguished from somebody he worked with, either due to the they didn't know or “perchance due to the it's a extraordinarily sensitive enviornment,” Bell mirrored. “In actuality the handiest particular person that I bear in mind being there for me used to be Dan. Unfortunately, there used to be no remedy and I used to be left to my possess devices…which at that age doubtlessly isn't the finest thing.”
Brian Peck's Toughen System in Hollywood
The suggestions in Bell's case possess been sealed for years. However once they possess been unsealed, enthusiastic occasions would possibly perhaps well peep who wrote the 41 letters of give a rob to filed on Peck's behalf earlier than his 2004 sentencing.
No one from Nickelodeon, including Schneider, wrote a letter, consistent with Enterprise Insider journalist Kate Taylor—whose 2022 investigative portion detailing allegations of misconduct against Schneider impressed the ID sequence. (“We wrote Kate a bit of a love letter,” sequence co-director Mary Robertson told Self-importance Lovely, “after which stated that we would prefer to partner and invent bigger upon her already nice reporting.”)
Amongst these that did write letters: James Marsden, Saturday Night Live participant Taran Killam, Boy Meets World actors Will Friedle and Rider Stable, and Rising Grief fogeys Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns.
Marsden wrote, as his letter used to be quoted in the sequence, that he'd known Peck (who had bit substances in 2000's X-Males and 2003's X2) for 14 years and “what Brian has been through in the closing 300 and sixty five days is the suffering of a hundred men.” Killam, who looked on The Amanda Notify and Drake & Josh, wrote of Peck, per the sequence, “I do know for a incontrovertible fact that he regrets any mistakes made.”
Thicke died in 2016. E! Files has reached out to reps for Marsden, Killam, Friedle, Stable and Kerns for issue nonetheless has no longer heard aid.
However, as Taylor notorious in the ID sequence, it used to be entirely conceivable that none of the actors knew the extent of the expenses against Peck after they wrote the letters.
Kerns stated in a assertion integrated in Still on Explain that she had since realized that her letter used to be consistent with “complete misinformation. Gleaming what I do know now, I by no scheme would possess written the letter.”
Stable and Friedle currently expressed regret for standing by Peck, who looked on about a episodes of Boy Meets World in 1999. They stated on a February episode of Pod Meets World, which they cohost with Danielle Fishel, that they didn't know the real chronicle at the time.
“He didn't reveal that nothing had befell,” Stable stated. “So, by the time we heard about this case and knew anything about it, it used to be repeatedly in the context of, 'I did this thing, I’m guilty. I roam to take no matter punishment the authorities determines, nonetheless I'm a victim of jailbait. There used to be this hot man. I honest did this thing, and he's underage.' And we sold that storyline.”
Added Friedle, “We're sitting in that courtroom on the unsuitable facet of the entirety. The victim's mother change into and stated, 'Ogle at the total notorious folk you introduced with you. And it doesn't alternate what you did to my miniature one.' I honest sat there making an strive to die. It used to be love, 'What the hell am I doing here?' It used to be horrifying the total methodology around.”
Drake Bell Says No One Ever Apologized In regards to the Letters
On episode 5, “Breaking the Silence,” Bell stated he appreciates Friedle and Stable's perspective, nonetheless it absolutely didn't at all alternate how he felt referring to the day he went to court for Brian Peck's sentencing in 2004 and saw his abuser's facet of the room paunchy of supporters.
Now not one one who wrote a give a rob to letter for Peck had reached out to him, Bell stated, including the Boy Meets World stars.
Friedle voiced Deadpool on about a episodes of the animated Last Spider-Man, starring Bell as Peter Parker, in 2013 and 2016, and apart from they didn't focus on about it, the actor stated.
However, Bell added, “It's a extraordinarily difficult enviornment to bring up, particularly in a piece ambiance. And that's the object that's arduous about this, due to the all people provides with their trauma in plenty of ways. Each person comes to plenty of conclusions at plenty of times in their lives… I in actuality fancy their perspective now, nonetheless that day is so ingrained in my tips.”
E! Files has reached out to Friedle for issue.
Brian Peck's Creepy Pen Buddy
In Still on Explain, All That alum Kyle Sullivan recalled all people from the showcase going to Peck's house for a barbecue. The actor and dialogue coach—who additionally worked on The Amanda Notify and Amanda Bynes' subsequent sitcom What I Love About You—had a room paunchy of vintage toys and comedian books, Sullivan stated, and a storage dedicated to Planet of the Apes memorabilia.
Sullivan recalled that Peck used to be giving him a tour when he showed the teen a painting of a clown made by the unhurried serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who murdered at the least 33 boys and younger men, consistent with legit accounts of his crimes, and used to be performed in 1994. Peck additionally had a stack of letters purportedly from Gacy that got a keep of luxuriate in the nightstand next to his mattress, consistent with Sullivan.
E! Files additionally reached out to Peck referring to his Gacy fandom alleged in the sequence nonetheless did not hear aid.
Shane Lyons Says Brian Peck Made “Passes” at Him
All That alum Shane Lyons spoke out for the principle time on episode 5, telling host Soledad O'Brien that there possess been “absolutely some passes” made at him by Peck and he didn't impress it at the time.
“When he requested me what blue balls used to be, I thought they possess been racket balls,” stated Lyons, who looked as a supporting participant on 23 episodes between 2002 and 2004. Remembering how blind to the term he used to be, the earlier actor continued, “As I deem aid now as an adult, as a 36-300 and sixty five days-extinct, would I ever possess a dialog with a 13-300 and sixty five days-extinct boy love he had with me? No. It makes absolutely zero sense.”
For essentially the most section, nonetheless, he used to be grateful that nothing more extreme befell to him, and he applauded Bell for telling his chronicle.
E! Files has reached out to Peck nonetheless has no longer but heard aid.
Kid-Pleasant Programming?
Frail cast members from presentations urge by Schneider talked in Still on Explain about either feeling unlucky at the time—or in hindsight—a couple of few of the costumes they possess been made to position on and a host of defective-out gags that can possess been of questionable sort nonetheless possess been televised for all Nickelodeon viewers to peep.
Leon Frierson, who used to be on All That from 1997 except 2000, recalled having to position on flesh-colored tights and underwear to play a superhero called “Nostril Boy” with equipment that “looked love a penis and testicles on my shoulders.” In a single sketch, Nostril Boy sneezed and a glob of snot hit a woman in the face.
If truth be told, slimy substances hitting ladies in the face used to be a repeat shaggy dog chronicle in a different of Schneider's presentations, including Zoey 101, as pointed out in the ID sequence by Jamie Lynn Spears' costar Alexa Nikolas. (She and iCarly alum Jennette McCurdy are among the earlier Nickelodeon actors who possess previously spoken out against the community for failing to present protection to younger talent.)
“It used to be honest unlucky,” Frierson stated in the sequence. However, he added, no one thought to bitch to Schneider. “It used to be crucial to be on his factual facet,” the now-37-300 and sixty five days-extinct stated of the All That author-producer, “and he made it known who used to be on his factual facet.”
A spokesperson for Schneider told E! Files, “Every thing that befell on the presentations Dan ran used to be fastidiously scrutinized by dozens of enthusiastic adults and current by the community. If there used to be an proper command with the scenes that some folk, now years later, are 'sexualizing,' they’d be taken down, nonetheless they’re no longer, they’re aired repeatedly all one of many top ways through the sphere right this moment time quiet, enjoyed by every formative years and fogeys.”
“Take note, all reviews, dialogue, costumes, and make-up possess been absolutely current by community executives on two coasts,” the derive continued. “A standards and practices crew read and in the smash current every script, and programming executives reviewed and current all episodes. Besides to, daily on every keep, there possess been repeatedly fogeys and caregivers and their chums gazing filming and rehearsals. Had there been any scenes or outfits that possess been tainted in any methodology, they’d possess been flagged and blocked by this multilayered scrutiny.
“Unfortunately, some adults project their adult minds onto formative years' presentations, drawing counterfeit conclusions about them.”
Unrealistic Expectations
Katrina Johnson, who used to be on All That between 1994 and 1997 and didn't act distinguished after the aughts, shared info from her time on the sketch showcase that the now-41-300 and sixty five days-extinct is quiet scared by.
“One day the producers called my house and spoke to my fogeys and stated, 'Hi there, Katrina's getting too paunchy. We possess already purchased a paunchy one, she can't be the paunchy one,'” she alleged in Still on Explain. Whereas her mom and dad stuck up for her, she added, “I mean, that stuck with me. 'That you just would possibly perhaps well't be the paunchy one.' I quiet hear these words in my head to for the time being.”
Quickly after, Johnson stated, she hit puberty and no longer looked love a miniature one, so she used to be in the smash “edged out…by a youthful model of me.”
Concerning the a enormous different of recollections in the ID sequence, Nickelodeon told NBC Files in a assertion:
“Despite the incontrovertible fact that we are in a position to no longer corroborate or suppose allegations of behaviors from productions many years ago, Nickelodeon as a matter of coverage investigates all formal complaints as section of our dedication to fostering a staunch and dependable office ambiance free of harassment or plenty of forms of tainted conduct. Our top priorities are the well-being and finest interests no longer honest of our workers, casts and crew, nonetheless of all formative years, and now we possess adopted a enormous different of safeguards over the years to back make certain we’re living as a lot as our possess excessive standards and the expectations of our target market.”
Now not the Apt Tone
Bryan Christopher Hearne, who used to be on seasons seven and eight of All That, used to be tasked with playing the youngest rapper of all time, “Lil Fetus,” one other persona requiring a skintight bodysuit. He stated in the ID sequence that he overheard somebody on keep reveal that the “skin tone must be charcoal.”
The crack made him “teary-eyed,” he recalled, nonetheless by then he used to be too alarmed to expose his mother, Tracey Browne, who had already developed a reputation on keep for being mercurial to be in contact up in her son's defense. Which, consistent with every Browne and Hearne in the docuseries, used to be frowned upon.
“I change into an oddball,” Browne acknowledged. At the similar time, she stated, it didn't roam neglected to her that her son used to be being requested to play Shadowy stereotypes. Case in point, she stated, Hearne playing the role of a miniature one hustling Lady Scout-variety cookies in the trend of somebody promoting medicine.
Castmate Kyle Sullivan, though he called out Schneider for being weirdly into goo-centric jokes, stated in Still on Explain that he “on the total had a factual relationship with Dan.”
In Hearne's thought, nonetheless, Schneider “had a nicer relationship with about a of the totally different white formative years. My time on Nickelodeon performed a tall section in how I dealt and quiet address racial points.”
A spokesperson for Schneider diusputed this characterization, noting the producer's “lengthy ancient previous prominently that contains Shadowy actors in his television presentations,” apart from to his subsequent TV and movie projects with All That breakout stars Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.
Two for the Rate of One
It wasn't honest the kids who recall experiencing a toxic work keep on these Schneider-urge presentations, consistent with Still on Explain.
Jenny Kilgen stated in the ID sequence that, when she and Christy Stratton possess been hired as writers on The Amanda Notify in 1999, they possess been requested to smash up a salary, as in their mixed salaries possess been equal to what one author in their dwelling used to be speculated to invent.
However, as Kilgen recalled, she used to be hungry for work and didn't are looking out to press her success by complaining. She additionally stated she didn't push aid when Schneider requested if he would possibly perhaps well honest name her and Stratton “the girls” as a replace of by name.
Moreover, every females stated, Schneider would invent feedback about females no longer being comic, and he'd play demeaning pranks.
On one other occasion, when Schneider created the persona of “Penelope Taynt” for Bynes to play on The Amanda Notify, Stratton and Kilgen stated he instructed them no longer to expose community execs that the name used to be an supposed double entendre, and apart from they kept their mouths shut for distress of his wrath.
When Kilgen realized out that their smash up salary used to be against union principles, she told the Writers Guild of The USA. Kilgen stated Schneider called her at dwelling and told her that, if he ever realized out for obvious that she used to be the one who reported him, that she'd by no scheme work for Nickelodeon or any plenty of Viacom-owned entity over again.
Still on Explain notorious: “Dan Schneider denies Jenny's claims and states that he had no adjust over salaries.”
A spokesperson for Schneider reiterated as distinguished to E! Files, noting The Amanda Notify used to be produced by a certain firm (Tollin/Robbins), nonetheless even on presentations he created, salaries “possess been controlled by the community and additionally by the WGA.”
As for these recollections of Schneider's conduct, “unfortunately writers' rooms possess been ceaselessly off-coloration places, particularly better than twenty years ago,” the spokesperson stated.
“Dan is extremely sorry for his conduct that contributed to that ambiance and he has grown a lot since then. That conduct is clearly unsuitable and no longer for the office, and absolutely he would by no scheme act that methodology over again.”
The keep Drake Bell Is Now
“I bear in mind the total abusive occasions nonetheless, the entirety outside of that, is extremely blurry to me,” Bell stated in the sequence. “Which is a bummer due to the I experienced tons of giant issues in my existence and my profession right through all this time, nonetheless it absolutely used to be so overshadowed and ruined by what I used to be coping with on the inner.”
The actor, who shares a son with estranged partner Janet Von Schmeling (they separated in 2022), pleaded guilty in 2021 to one rely every of tried miniature one endangerment and disseminating matter defective to juveniles after exchanging texts with a minor. He used to be sentenced to crew service and probation.
Bell stated on his behalf in a video posted on-line that he'd exchanged “reckless and irresponsible” texts with a fan, no longer realizing the fan used to be a minor, nonetheless ceased verbal replace as soon as he realized out. “I are looking out to invent certain,” he stated, “there possess been no sexual photos, nothing physical between me and this individual.”
His possess journey as a teen “ended in tons of self-destruction and tons of self-loathing,” Bell stated in the sequence. “I’d strive to honest speed with alcohol abuse, substance abuse, in actuality honest anything to flee.” As for his 2021 arrest, “I took responsibility for that, did what used to be requested of me, nonetheless the media grabbed a preserve of so distinguished misinformation, and it absolutely destroyed me. And I began to fade out of adjust.”
In April 2023 he used to be reported lacking in Daytona Shoreline, Fla., nonetheless he change into up the following day and laughed it off. “You roam away your phone in the vehicle and don't resolution for the evening and this?” he tweeted at the time. Earlier that 300 and sixty five days, nonetheless, he had reportedly sought outpatient medicine for substance abuse.
In the sequence, the Ready Valid Plod! artist stated that if he'd “continued down that direction,” it goes to possess been the tip of him.
He hit “rock bottom,” he continued, so he checked into medicine, the keep he lastly underwent be concerned and trauma remedy, “surrounded by folk that for the principle time in a truly lengthy time wanted to honest peep me get well.”
Dan Schneider Would “Manufacture Issues Otherwise”
Schneider's urge at Nickelodeon ended in 2018 when the community canceled his sequence Game Shakers after three seasons, whereas Henry Hazard continued 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 his or her “immeasurable contributions to Nickelodeon,” whereas Schneider stated they’d “repeatedly remain tall fans of the community.”
However reviews immediate adopted that his ouster used to be the end result of too many complaints made referring to the prolific converse creator's conduct in the put up-#MeToo period. (Four folk with files of the overview told the New York Times in 2021 that an inner investigation obvious that Schneider would be verbally abusive nonetheless realized no proof of sexual misconduct.)
He stated in a assertion to Still on Explain that “this is never any longer an dazzling description” of why he and Nickelodeon parted ways. “On the opposite hand,” he added, “right this moment time, I’d absolutely enact some issues otherwise. I've realized a lot over the years about get out how to be a bigger boss.”
Dan Schneider's Apology Promtps Laughter From All That Alums
In step with the initial premiere of Still on Explain, Schneider sat down for an interview with iCarly actor BooG!e all one of many top ways through which the producer apologized for any boorish or insensitive conduct, nonetheless 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 an total, I thought it used to be comic,” Hearne stated. “If I’d be candid, Dan used to be an actor earlier than all of this. So I deem that he brushed apart some chops and gave us a pleasing performance. The keep used to be all of this apologizing when Jennette McCurdy's e book came out?”
In her bombshell 2022 memoir, I'm Elated My Mother Died, McCurdy detailed, among plenty of issues, feeling love she needed to position on a bikini on iCarly and being pressured to drink alcohol by a particular person she handiest most frequently known as “The Creator.”
Hearne continued, “What's an apology with out accountability? Realistically, whereas you are taking the contaminated jokes away, enact you’ve a showcase?”
E! Files has reached out to Schneider for issue on essentially the most up-to-date Still on Explain episode nonetheless has but to listen to aid.
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