Marc Summers, former host of Nickelodeon’s Double Dare, is sharing an expertise he had throughout an interview for ID’s Quiet On Set: The Darkish Aspect Of Kids’s TV docuseries. Throughout an interview on Elvis Duran and the Morning Present, Summers informed the hosts he agreed to do an interview about Nickelodeon, however was not informed that it concerned a docuseries that was set to uncover the poisonous tradition behind kids’s exhibits on the community within the late Nineteen Nineties and 2000s.
“They requested me what I considered Nick, and the primary 10 to 12 seconds, from what I perceive, on this documentary is me saying all these great issues. However they did a bait and swap on me,” Summers mentioned in a preview of the interview, set to air on Friday. “They ambushed me. They by no means informed me what this documentary was actually about. And they also confirmed me a video of one thing that I couldn’t imagine was on Nickelodeon. And I mentioned, ‘Properly, let’s cease the tape proper right here. What are we doing?’”
Summers mentioned when he was informed the documentary was going to element producer Dan Schneider’s conduct and the sexual abuse Drake Bell suffered by the hands of Brian Peck, he walked out.
“I left. So I bought a telephone name about six weeks in the past saying you’re completely out of the present. And I went, ‘Nice.’ Then they known as me about 4 weeks in the past and mentioned, ‘Properly, you’re in it, however you’re solely within the first a part of it since you talked in regards to the optimistic stuff of Nickelodeon,’” Summers mentioned. “What they didn’t inform me — they usually lied to me about — was the truth that they put in that different factor the place that they had the digicam on me once they ambushed me. And so, now we get into an entire state of affairs about who’s unethical.”
Summers additionally mentioned he had by no means met Schneider. His present, Double Dare, had ended earlier than Schneider arrived on the community.
“These folks got here in after and took over our studios. I by no means met the person, I don’t know about any of these issues,” he says. “I imply, I do know Kenan [Thompson] from ‘Kenan and Kel,’ as a result of we’ve completed stuff collectively. However so far as something that occurred on that present with any of these folks, I by no means met any of them. I didn’t know anyone. However it made it look like I knew these folks.”
Deadline has reached to Quiet on Set producers for remark. We are going to replace this submit if/once they reply.
A fifth episode of Quiet on Set premieres Sunday, April 7 8/7c on ID. The episode titled “Breaking the Silence” will function former Nickelodeon baby stars from the early 2000s, together with Drake Bell. Summers’ whole interview air stay on Elvis Duran and the Morning Present‘s YouTube channel Friday at 8:45 am ET.
