Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am going to not, not a happy blog about Nickelodeon. As you can see in the title, it's dark. I read Jennette McCrudy's memoir titled, I'm Glad My Mom Died in 2022. Then I started seeing pictures and hearing about Amanda Bynes. Then in 2024 I watched, Quiet On Set and after hearing about Drake Bell, I really wanted to do a blog on this. I had this blog idea sitting on my shelf with dust for year. Not just because I been working, and summer is the only time I can do this. But this blog is very lengthy. Especially when I am talking about Drake Bell & Brandi.
For everyone, like me, watched Nickelodeon growing up. Yes, I watched Nick, but I was more of a Disney kid. But I watched All That, The Amanda Show, Zoey 101, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Drake & Josh, ICarly, Victorious, The Haunted Halfways, The Thunderman. And some others on YTV in Canada. But I am sorry, but, I am going to ruin your childhood with this blog. I am sorry that this is very lengthy. I was trying to get every detail I could.
Jennette McCrudy - Jennette was on ICarly and Sam & Cat. But didn’t come back for Carly 2.0. At a young age, Jennette would do anything for her mom. Her mom wanted to be an actress, but her mom’s parents didn’t want her too. So she made her only daughter, Jennette be an actress. Jennette’s mom would manipulate Jennette when she wanted to quit and taught her how to calorie count to stay small and skinny. Jennette one told her mom that she wanted to be a writer instead of an actress, but all her mom said was that writers is not a real job and they all get fat for just sitting around and doing nothing. When she was on Sam & Cat she was not allowed to take off a week, but she stated saying that her costar, Ariana Grande could take a week off for her music and to have a game night at Tom Hanks’ house. After Jennette’s mom died in 2013 she came out saying "I was on a show at 13 to 25, and by 15 I was already embarrassed. My friends at 15 weren't watching the shows saying 'Oh cool, you're on this Nickelodeon show.' it was embarrassing." Jennette Almohad an eating disorder and even began to drink heavily.
Alexa Nikolas - Alexa was Nicole on Zoey 101, but didn't come back after season 2 in 2006. Alexa was emotionally abused by Dan Schneider at Nickelodeon. While filming Zoey 101, Jamie Lynn accused Alexa for bulling her and got her sister, Brittany Spears to yell at Alexa. When she did no bullying. Also one day she was crying and Dan said “What now?” And threw a DVD player to her and basically told her to get over it. Plus whenever she was in wardrobe for Zoey 101 she would spin around for Dan Schneider and he saying to the wardrobe person that he wants the polaroids of Alexa in every outfit she tries on.
Allie DiMeco - Allie was on the Nickelodeon show, The Naked Brother Band, in 2007 to 2009 where she was forced to kiss a man way older than her. After telling the producers no, multiple times, her mom went to Nickelodeon and told them no. If she wasn’t gonna do it, she was gonna loose her job. There was another time when she had to kiss Nat on Naked Brothers Band show, and she didn’t have her first kiss yet. She didn’t want her first kiss on TV. After she told her mom, her mom went to the producers and writers sating that she doesn’t want to do this. They threatened her that she would loose her job. After her mom said to the producers that Allie is not doing this, rewrite the script. The female producer grabbed Allie and kissed her and said “There, your first kiss is over. And now go film”
Drake Bell - Before Drake Bell got his own show with Josh Peck, called Drake &. Josh in 2004 till 2007, he was on The Amanda Show with Josh Peck. While continuing reading, keep in mind that Josh Peck does not have any family relation with this guy. You will understand if you watched Quiet On Set and/or keep up with Drake Bell. Drake started acting at 5 years old. His dad saw in a parenting magazine that there was an add for The Kids Hollywood Connection, and started from there. When he was getting older he booked guess roles on show. When he was 12 he got an audition for The Amanda Show, and Dan walked to him and told him that Amanda wants him on the show. In 2000 him and his dad went to Nickelodeon On Sunset he got introduced to the dialog coach, Brian Peck. They hit it off, when him and Drake would talk about old Hollywood. Brian ended up being Drake’s acting and dialog coach. He told Drake to come to his house, cause that is where he gives the lessons. Drake’s dad always had an eye out on Brian, even though. Everything looked normal. His dad noticed that Brian was hanging out with Drake more and more. And it didn’t set right with him. If Drake was in his dressing room, Brain would go in and touch him and helping him get ready for his shoot. Then he would put his hand on Drake’s waist or shoulder and run his arm down Drake’s arm while going over lines. His dad told the producers that he was getting uncomfortable around his son. During a tapping of the Drake & Josh sketch on The Amanda Show and one of the writers leaned over to Dan and said “Nickelodeon is looking for a new ‘Buddy Comedy’. Their’s your buddies right there”. Dan took Drake & his dad out for lunch to talk about the new comedy. Right after that Brian told Drake that he will be his new manger and Drake’s dad comfort Brian. Brian started to insert himself into Drake’s concerts. Drake’s dad booked Drake and his band at the Strawberry Festival and Brian and his friends show up and follow Drake around the whole festival. In 2001 Drake had a party for the 15th birthday and Brian decided that the party should be at his house, but it made it easy, cause everyone he wanted there was on the show who lived near Brain. Later Drake’s dad sees birthday cards from Brian’s friends and they were really inappropriate with adult content in them. Brian later caught on that Drake’s dad has an eye on him and started to make a wedge between Drake and his dad by making up lies. Brain also got an attorney to find out about Drake’s financials. There was never any mishandling of funds. After Drake’s mom told his dad that Drake doesn’t want him as a manger anymore, his dad handed everything to his mom and told Do Not leave Drake alone with Brian and always keep an eye on him. Brian tricked his mom. He told Drake that they will go to Disneyland. Since his mom hated driving, Brian would pick him up for auditions. Drake would also stay the night cause Drake lived an hour away. Drake was sleeping at Brian’s one night on the couch, and he woke up to Brian s*xually a$$aulting him. Drake was 15. Still, he kept going to Brian’s house for work and it got worse, & worse as time went on. When they started casting for Drake & Josh, Brian wanted to play the dad. Brian was also rehashing him and rehashing his girlfriend when Drake got a girlfriend. It took his girlfriend’s mom 6 seconds to catch on. One day Drake was on the phone with his mom and just exploded and told her everything. His mom immediately called the police. Next thing is, the detective was asking Drake what happed. He had to go into detail on everything that had happen and call Brian Peck to get him to admit it. Brian got arrested in August 2003. After Brian got arrested Dan called Drake to ask if this was cause of him. Drake said yes. After Drake said yes, Dan just asked if Drake was alright. Drake called his dad and told him that they arrested Brian Peck on molestaon. Drake’s dad was glad to hear this and said “You’re kidding. I knew it. I am glad that he was not able to get his hands on you.” In fall of 2003, a few weeks after Brian’s arrest he started shooting Drake & Josh. Dan was the only person from Nickelodeon was their for him. In October 2004 they went to setencing. Drake was hoping he’d go to jail and be there for a while and never work with kids again. Since Drake was a minor when this happed, he is mentioned as John Doe in the court room. Brian’s side of the court room was entirely full with some recognizable faces and Drake only had himself, his brother, and his mom. Even though Brian was convicted he was getting all this support from the industry. In the end, Brian pleads no contest to two charges of child s*xal abuse. And the judge sends him to 16 months in jail and ordered him to register as a s*x offender. Brian had 41 letters of support from family, friends, and other actors/actress. Brian later works on The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody as London’s talking mirror.
Amanda Bynes - After Amanda did a comedy routine at the Laugh Factory at the age of 10, Dan saw something in her. And wants her on All That immediately in 1996. Sometimes when the kids were at school on set, Amanda would be missing to write with Dan and pitching ideas off of each other. By the time she was 16 she was famous and was everywhere, and Dan ended up creating What I Like About You for her in 2002 on the WB. Dan wanted to help in every way. After Amanda tariff to get emancipated from her parents, it created a rife between Dan and her parents. The trail for Amanda to get emancipated went wrong. After that, that was the end of Dan and Amanda’s relationship.
Katrina Johnson - Katrina was a cast member on All That from 1994 till 1997. During her time on All That, Dan Schneider choose her to be the IT girl. He also called her parents in talk of getting her own show on Nickelodeon before The Amanda Show. That all changed when the producers called her parents and said “Hey, Katrina is getting too fat. We already have a fat one, she can’t be the fat one”. This was also when she was taking dance class 6 hours a day and shortly after that call she was going through puberty. When the producers saw that, they freaked out, cause she looked like a women instead of little kid they hired and then that was an issue.After she realized that Amanda Bynes was the new favourite, she was spending less and less time with Dan. Later decided to go to college
Brandi - Brandi was a guess star on The Amanda Show in season 2. Even though she never appears on Quiet On Set, her mom, MJ did and told us what happened with her daughter, Brandi when she was on Nickelodeon. MJ wanted to become an actress when she was younger, but with her parents in the film industry they didn’t want their kids anywhere near that. Years later, her daughter wanted to act on a kids show. Brandi loved The Amanda Show. After she booked a guess role on The Amanda show in 2000, she felt like she was on cloud 9. Since the parents were not allowed on set, the kids were greeting with a P.A, Jason Handy to take the kids around set and get them comfortable on set. Brandi told her mom that Jason was exchanging numbers with her and the other kids and email with them. After her episode of The Amanda Show she got an email from Jason that sounded innocent and let her mom read it. One day on AOL Messenger she email Jason and her wanted to meet Brandi somewhere. Here mom didn’t let her, cause she always wanted a parent present if they were hanging out with a person they don’t know. But he really wanted to meet her. A few months later she was at the computer and shut it down completely and slammed her door. What Jason sent her was a nude picture of himself masterbating to show Brandi he was thinking of her. Since then, she stoped acting, and never returned. In 2003 a deceptive from the L.A Police Department called MJ and told her that Jason got arrested and searched his home. They found this enormous bag of child pronography. With over 10,000 images of children, including 1,768 images of young girls in erotic poses, 238 images of young girls in sexually explicit poses, 2 images of girls engaged in ‘Bondage Activity’. There is more, but I am leaving that here. The reason why I am writing this all is cause they found a plastic ziplock baggie with Brandi’s name on one with. There was never any apology for Brandi.There was no recent picture of Brandi, so I had to use a child photo of her.
