Nickelodeon stars reflect on sex offender Brian Peck as kids, thought it was ‘normal’ #shorts
Brian Peck wasn’t just a dialogue coach to child actors on Nickelodeon’s “All That” in the late ’90s and 2000s.
Show stars Giovonnie Samuels and Bryan Hearne, who both joined the sketch-comedy production as preteens during its seventh season in 2002, actually considered Peck, then age 42, a friend.
“We were extremely close,” Samuels, now 38, and Hearne, 35, told The Post in unison.
“We would run lines with him all the time. He signed my ‘All That’ yearbook,” said Samuels of Peck — who often appeared on camera as goofy stage-crasher “Pickle Boy,” awkwardly toting a tray of pickles.
“We were invited to his house for parties and things,” Samuels continued.
“We were all under this naive cloak of, ‘We’re a family, we all hang out,’” she added. “‘This is normal. This is common that an adult would want to be friends with a child.“
But Peck’s abject chumminess with the tweens was apparently anything but normal.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/entertainment/nickelodeon-alums-talk-former-bond-with-drake-bells-abuser/
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