Abused Child Actor’s Dad Was Called ‘Homophobic’ for Trying to Report Touchy Nickelodeon Producer: Report

For most of its history, Nickelodeon has been known as the fun, quirky kids channel full of sitcoms, cartoons and sketch shows.

Thanks to an ongoing docu-series taking the world by storm, that’s changed forever. From now on, the channel will be known for rampant child abuse.

Not only were men behind the scenes committing numerous horrific acts of abuse, but now, a recently released episode of the series maintains the Nickelodeon staff accused a concerned parent of being “homophobic” when he began noticing some inappropriate behavior on set.

The series — Max’s “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” — has exposed the systemic predatory and abusive behavior that the child actors at Nickelodeon were forced to face, repeatedly.

The main perpetrator purported to be behind much of the abusive behavior is Dan Schneider, the creator and producer of “The Amanda Show,” “iCarly,” “Drake & Josh” and “Zoey 101,” according to Forbes.

But for the worst of crimes revealed by the series, Schneider was not the primary perpetrator.

Instead, it was Brian Peck, a former actor and dialogue coach who worked on many of the channel’s top shows.

In 2004, Peck pleaded no contest to charges related to the sexual abuse of a child, per Forbes.

Thanks to “No Quiet on Set,” the world now knows who that child was — Drake Bell, the star of the wildly popular “Drake & Josh” show.

Bell’s father, Joe Bell, used to accompany and watch Drake every single day.

After noticing Peck was a little too touchy with his son, Joe notified the Nickelodeon staff, but was quickly dismissed.

“I went to production and said, ‘I really am very uncomfortable with this guy Brian Peck always being around my son,’” Joe Bell said in the docu-series’s third episode. “I go ‘I don’t see anything abnormal, but it just doesn’t… I don’t have a good feeling.’

“And she goes, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know if you knew it or not, but he’s gay. Maybe you’re just homophobic and you just… don’t understand that he’s a touchy-feely guy.’

“I was ostracized.”

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