Nickelodeon Host Marc Summers Walked Out Of ‘Quiet on Set’ Interview: ‘They Ambushed Me’

“They by no means informed me what this documentary was actually about,” the Double Dare host mentioned of the sequence, which aimed to show “the poisonous and harmful tradition behind a few of the most iconic youngsters’s tv exhibits.”

The doc goes behind-the-scenes of the youngsters’s tv community from the late Nineteen Nineties to the early 2000s, focusing totally on Dan Schneider’s time as a producer and present runner on Nickelodeon and his allegedly abusive habits.

Throughout an look on Elvis Duran and the Morning Present, Summers — who hosted Double Dare and What Would You Do? for the community within the ’80s and ’90s — spoke out about how he was requested to be part of the documentary about Nickelodeon, claiming he initially had no concept it could deal with the poisonous habits that allegedly occurred on the community.

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“They requested me what I considered Nick, and the primary 10 to 12 seconds, from what I perceive, on this documentary is me saying all these great issues. However they did a bait and change on me,” Summers mentioned in preview clip of the interview, which is about to go reside in full on Friday.

“They ambushed me. They by no means informed me what this documentary was actually about. And they also confirmed me a video of one thing that I could not imagine was on Nickelodeon. And I mentioned, ‘Effectively, let’s cease the tape proper right here. What are we doing?'”

Throughout the sequence Summers is proven questionable clips from Zoey 101, Sam & Cat and Victorious and different exhibits which had been run by Schneider, earlier than exclaiming, “That was proven on Nickelodeon?!”

In accordance with Summers, he walked out when it was defined what the documentary was really about.

“I left. So I obtained a telephone name about six weeks in the past saying you are completely out of the present. And I went, ‘Nice.’ Then they known as me about 4 weeks in the past and mentioned, ‘Effectively, you are in it, however you are solely within the first a part of it since you talked in regards to the constructive stuff of Nickelodeon,'” Summers continued.

“What they did not inform me — and so they lied to me about — was the truth that they put in that different factor the place that they had the digital camera on me after they ambushed me,” he added. “And so, now we get into a complete scenario about who’s unethical.”

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Summers identified on the radio present that he by no means met Schneider and that Summer season’s time on the community got here after Double Dare ended.

“These individuals got here in after and took over our studios. I by no means met the person, I don’t know about any of these issues,” he mentioned.

“I imply, I do know Kenan [Thompson] from ‘Kenan and Kel,’ as a result of we have performed stuff collectively,” he added. “However so far as something that occurred on that present with any of these individuals, I by no means met any of them. I did not know anyone. However it made it look like I knew these individuals.”

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