Why Nickelodeon host Marc Summers walked out of ‘Quiet on Set’ interview
nypost.com“Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” exposes the alleged toxic environment child actors endured at Nickelodeon in the late ’90s and early 2000s — but Marc Summers didn’t know that when he agreed to an interview.
The famed network host — who famously led “Double Dare” and “What Would You Do?” — revealed that he felt entrapped by the documentary’s producers when he appeared on the series.“They ambushed me,” the 72-year-old said on Friday’s edition of z100’s Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. “[They] did a bait and switch on me.”Summers claimed that execs never relayed to him “what this documentary was really about.”“And so they showed me a video of something that I couldn’t believe was on Nickelodeon.
And I said, ‘Well, let’s stop the tape right here. What are we doing?'” he recalled.The “History IQ” host walked off the “Quiet” set after he was told that the doc would dive into details about allegations against Nickelodeon head honcho Dan Schneider and former voice coach Brian Peck, who was accused of allegedly abusing actor Drake Bell.“I left.
So I got a phone call about six weeks ago saying you’re totally out of the show. And I went, ‘Great.’ Then they called me about four weeks ago and said, ‘Well, you’re in it, but you’re only in the first part of it because you talked about the positive stuff of Nickelodeon,'” he explained.“What they didn’t tell me — and they lied to me about — was the fact that they put in that other thing where they had the camera on me when they ambushed me.
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