Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Dalton Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv, alt.tv.nickelodeon Subject: Re: Former Nickelodeon Star Says She Was Forced To Kiss 30-Year-Old Man As A Teen On Show Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:52:14 -0230 Organization: Eternal September Lines: 83 Message-ID: <0001HW.2BBD10F60089E6E570000E1E538F@news.eternal-september.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:22:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bf90926a91810fb3f4fc7f8d6b89d1a8"; logging-data="3914166"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IU8o2u4iNhkoUx/lbyBRtlDT3Tncj9Ak=" User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.24 Cancel-Lock: sha1:R4bDf/0rD+J5xyuRgDxMT18hvMc= Bytes: 4809 On Apr 2, 2024, Ubiquitous wrote (in article ): > Former Nickelodeon star Allie DiMeco said she was forced to kiss a 30-year- > old man as a teen on her show in light of the new docuseries “Quiet on Set: > The Dark Side of Kids TV,” which alleges abuse and a toxic work environment > behind the scenes at the network. > > The DiMeco, who was part of “The Naked Brothers Band” show from 2007-2009, > took to TikTok over the weekend and shared her experience at the network > after watching the new — and by many accounts, disturbing — documentary, > the > Hollywood Reporter noted. > > DiMeco said she was “stressed” while watching the series, revealing that > she > “went through trauma” on the show after her teenage character Rosalina > had a > brief romance with a French character named Michel (played by Jake Hertzog). > > “There was an episode where Rosalina ‘cheated’ on Nat and kind of > kissed a > French guy,” DiMeco said, noting that she didn’t want to kiss this > “greasy > a**” man. > > “He’s a 30-year-old man,” she added. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t even > watch it. It > gave me f***ing the ick and it honestly gives me PTSD.” > > Nickelodeon Star Allie DiMeco Says She Was Forced To Kiss Much Older > Man On ‘Naked Brothers Band’ & Felt “I Might Be Fired If I Didn’t Do > It” https://t.co/xmMpJdRf4J > > — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 26, 2024 > > “I’m watching this ‘Quiet on Set’ documentary and it’s talking > about how > integral and vital it is to create — especially when it’s a kids cast — > to > create an environment where kids feel comfortable to say ‘No’ or ‘I > don’t > feel comfortable with this,'” DiMeco continued. “And I’m like, ‘Yeah, > maybe > they do express that though, it’s also more important to create an > environment that listens to the kids and actually does not make them do > things when they don’t want to do them.'” > > DiMeco went on to talk about how they made her kiss “this 30 plus-year-old > man when I was like 14, 15” — not once, she said, but “multiple > times.” > > “I told them many times I didn’t want to do it,” the former child star > said. > “My mom was very against it. And they just pretty much made me feel like I > was going to lose my job and be fired if I didn’t do it.” > > Following the documentary’s release, former child star Drake Bell came > forward and said he was the John Doe from a sexual abuse case from 2004 > involving former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. Peck pleaded no > contest to the charges and was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered > to register as a sex offender, as The Daily Wire previously reported. > > Docuseries contributors spoke frequently about former Nickelodeon producer > Dan Schneider, who they said perpetrated abuse by acting in a controlling > manner and making sexually suggestive jokes, some of which were used in > children’s programming. They also alleged that Schneider was filmed in a hot > tub with then 16-year-old actress Amanda Bynes. > > “I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,” Schneider said in > a > statement following the release of “Quiet on Set.” She is straight-type-1-F and a very good match for her is straight-type-1-M producer and director Graham Waterston, who is close in age to her. -- David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill; And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)