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Marc Summers is placing the record straight.
Two weeks just after the release of the docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Aspect of Little ones Television,” which in depth allegations of sexual abuse and a poisonous natural environment at Nickelodeon, the former “Double Dare” host explained he was misled about the real nature of the series.
“They asked me what I imagined of Nick, and the initial 10 to 12 seconds, from what I understand, in this documentary is me expressing all these fantastic items,” Summers, who appeared in the initially episode of the Investigation Discovery collection, defined, on the radio demonstrate “Elvis Duran and the Morning Clearly show” April 5. “But they did a bait-and-swap on me. They ambushed me.”
“They never ever instructed me what this documentary was actually about,” he ongoing. “They confirmed me a online video of anything that I couldn’t consider was on Nickelodeon. And I said, ‘Let’s quit the tape proper here. What are we performing?'”
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In the episode, Summers, who hosted the children’s match show from 1986 to 1993, mirrored on his time at the community through the doc, replying, “Nickelodeon was not there to educate you. We were being there to have pleasurable, to get slimed, to be entertained.” He was then shown clips from “Victorious,” “Zoey 101” and other reveals operate by Dan Schneider, to which he questioned in the collection, “Did that air on Nickelodeon.”
The 72-yr-outdated defined in the radio job interview that he walked absent from the docuseries after getting advised it would delve into the allegations of place of work misconduct levied at Schneider, who rose by the ranks at the community in the late-’90s—as properly as dialogue mentor Brian Peck’s 2004 conviction for sexually assaulting a minor. In the docuseries, Drake Bell arrived forward as the then-unnamed minor.
Like fellow Nick alum Kenan Thompson, Summer season claimed he still left before Schneider’s reign, so he by no means crossed paths with the previous executive. Nevertheless, he expressed aggravation that his involvement in “Quiet on Established” prompt otherwise.
Audiences are in shock above “Quiet on Set: The Dim Side of Little ones Tv,” a bombshell new Investigation Discovery docuseries that’s pulling again the curtain on former Nickelodeon shows, alleging that there was a poisonous and abusive setting behind the scenes on many shows.
“People persons arrived in immediately after and took over our studios,” Summertime emphasized. “I never ever fulfilled the guy. I have no notion about any of people items. I indicate, I know Kenan from Kenan and Kel since we have done things collectively. But as far as anything at all that happened on that present with any of all those people today, I never ever achieved any of them.”
“I did not know any individual,” the previous “Unwrapped” host continued. “But it made it appear to be like I understood people folks.”
A several weeks soon after filming, Summers shared that he gained a cell phone contact stating he wouldn’t be featured—before afterwards studying in any other case.
“I went, ‘Great,'” he recalled. “Then they known as me about four months back and claimed, ‘Well, you’re in it, but you happen to be only in the initially component of it simply because you talked about the favourable things of Nickelodeon.'”
But he alleges he was not explained to the whole scope of his involvement.
“What they did not explain to me, and they lied to me about,” he included, “was the point that they set in that other matter where they experienced the digicam on me when they ambushed me.”
Nonetheless, the collection directors Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, explained to E! Information in a assertion, “We are very clear with each participant about the mother nature of our initiatives.”
