Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell is coming ahead within the upcoming Investigation Discovery sequence “Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV” to allege he was a sufferer of Brian Peck‘s sexual abuse. Peck labored as a dialogue coach on Nickelodeon’s “All That” and “The Amanda Present,” the latter of which starred Bell from 1999 to 2002. Bell would go on to headline his personal Nickelodeon sequence in 2004 with “Drake & Josh.”
Peck was arrested in August 2003 on greater than a dozen costs associated to sexual abuse allegations involving an unnamed minor. In Could 2004, Peck pleaded no contest to performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old and to oral copulation with a minor below 16. (It stays unclear who these victims are and Bell has not but specified the character of the abuse he skilled, though he’s seemingly to take action when “Quiet on Set” airs later this month). Peck was sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to register as a intercourse offender in October 2004.
A clip from “Quiet on Set” teases Bell coming ahead to debate Peck. A press launch from Investigation Discovery reads: “The clip reveals that former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell will probably be sharing publicly, for the primary time, the story of the abuse he suffered by the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach who was convicted in 2004 for his crimes towards Drake and ordered to register as a intercourse offender.”
Selection has reached out to representatives for Peck and Bell for additional remark.
Peck was just lately within the information attributable to an episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast during which “Boys Meets World” solid members Rider Robust and Will Friedle remembered working with Peck on the present. They’d been requested for statements for the docuseries however needed to discuss their expertise as a substitute on their podcast.
Peck visitor starred on two episodes of “Boy Meets World” in Season 5 and have become quick mates with Robust and Friedle. When Peck was accused of sexual abuse in 2003, he allegedly known as Friedle and was crying whereas “immediately spinning it to the place it wasn’t his fault, it was clearly the fault of his sufferer.”
Friedle admitted on the podcast that he believed Peck at first, including: “My intuition initially was, ‘My buddy, this will’t be. It’s gotta be the opposite individual’s fault.’ The story makes full sense the best way that he’s saying it.”
Peck later requested Robust and Friedle to assist him in court docket, which they did. Friedle remembered: “We’re sitting in that courtroom on the flawed aspect of all the things … The sufferer’s mom turned and stated, ‘Have a look at all of the well-known individuals you introduced with you. And it doesn’t change what you probably did to my child,’” Friedle defined. “I simply sat there eager to die. It was like, ‘What the hell am I doing right here?’ It was horrifying all the best way round.”
“Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV” is a four-part docuseries revealing the poisonous work situations behind youngsters’s reveals within the Nineties and early 2000s — particularly these from Dan Schneider, the creator of beloved Nickelodeon reveals reminiscent of “iCarly” and “Zoey 101.” The sequence airs March 17 and 18 on Investigation Discovery.