ID’s new doc “Quiet on Established: The Dim Facet of Kids TV” exposes the alleged poisonous setting baby actors endured at Nickelodeon in the late ’90s and early 2000s — but Marc Summers did not know that when he agreed to an interview.
The famed community host — who famously led “Double Dare” and “What Would You Do?” — uncovered that he felt entrapped by the documentary’s producers when he appeared on the series.
“They ambushed me,” the 72-yr-old claimed on Friday’s edition of z100’s Elvis Duran and the Morning Exhibit. “[They] did a bait and change on me.”
Summers claimed that execs by no means relayed to him “what this documentary was truly about.”
“And so they confirmed me a video of anything that I could not imagine was on Nickelodeon. And I explained, ‘Well, let’s end the tape ideal below. What are we accomplishing?’” he recalled.
The “History IQ” host walked off the “Quiet” set immediately after he was informed that the doc would dive into details about allegations towards Nickelodeon head honcho Dan Schneider and previous voice mentor Brian Peck, who was accused of allegedly abusing actor Drake Bell.
“I left. So I got a telephone phone about 6 weeks ago indicating you are thoroughly out of the present. And I went, ‘Great.’ Then they termed me about 4 months back and stated, ‘Well, you are in it, but you’re only in the initially component of it due to the fact you talked about the constructive stuff of Nickelodeon,’” he described.
“What they didn’t convey to me — and they lied to me about — was the reality that they set in that other issue wherever they experienced the camera on me when they ambushed me. And so, now we get into a complete situation about who’s unethical.”
The phase that the producers referred to was evidently one that Summers did not know that ever aired on the community. The documentary showed a snippet of him viewing a clip on his mobile phone, asking, “Did that air on Nickelodeon?”
The series showcased scenes from a myriad of Schneider’s demonstrates, this sort of as “Zoey 101,” “Sam & Cat” and “Victorious” that had quite a few seemingly suggestive scenes that didn’t look to in fact be suited for youngsters in hindsight.
The Television personality then claimed that he never ever satisfied Schneider, declaring that “Double Dare” finished right before the Nick display creator was hired. “Double Dare” aired from 1986 until 1993 on the network.
“Those people came in after and took more than our studios. I under no circumstances achieved the person, I have no notion about any of those people matters,” he claimed.
“I suggest, I know Kenan [Thompson] from ‘Kenan and Kel,’ because we have completed things jointly. But as considerably as something that occurred on that show with any of all those individuals, I never satisfied any of them. I didn’t know anybody. But it made it feel like I understood all those people today,” Summers claimed.
A reward episode of the 5-component “Quiet on Set” documentary will be released on Sunday, April 7, on Max and Investigation Discovery.
