Former Nickelodeon star Kel Mitchell states that Daniel Schneider he yelled at her in a closet on the set of Everything that.
Mitchell, 45, recalled that heated moment on the Tuesday, June 11, episode of Keke Palmerthe podcast of, Baby this is Keke Palmer. She was 18 or 19 at the time, she told Palmer, when Schneider, a writer for Mitchell’s comedy show, Everything that —He directed the anger in his direction.
“The vibe of the show started to change a little bit. [The show’s co-creator] Brian Robbins started to do Varsity Blues and all these different movies and production crew started exploding, so they left,” Mitchell said of the personnel changes at Everything that. “And they left us with the head writer, Dan Schneider. So he’s writing, and he and I butt heads a little bit.”
One day, “I remember Dan and I had a big argument on set,” he continued. “He told me, ‘Let’s go to this room here, in this closet.’ He closed the door and left, you know, yelling all those wild things.”
From the repairman (man man man) to construction worker Lester Oakes and everyone in between, the characters of All That are etched in the minds of ’90s kids everywhere. Nickelodeon’s half-hour comedy show originally aired from 1994 to 2000, spawning spinoffs like Kenan & Kel and The Amanda Present and becoming the signature […]
Mitchell moved away from Schneider.
“Being an adult right now, I had to make a decision, you know what I mean? I was like, okay, or we [are] “I’m going to fight or I’m leaving,” he said. “And that is what I did. “I left the situation.”
Mitchell is the latest Nickelodeon alum to speak out about negative experiences working with Schneider, 58, who co-created Amanda’s present, Drake and Josh and icarly, among other sequences from the children’s network. Earlier this year, Investigation Discovery released an explosive docuseries, Silence on the set: The dark side of children’s televisionhow detailed Schneider’s tenure at Nick and his alleged inappropriate behavior. He also covered sexual abuse allegations, specifically involving the former dialogue coach. Brian Peck.
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In March, Schneider gave his first interview regarding the claims against him, saying that see Silence on set It had made him confront “my past behaviors, some of which are embarrassing and which I regret, and I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology.”
The conversation about the alleged toxic work environment at Nickelodeon may be just beginning. Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV, which aired in March on Investigation Discovery, covered producer Dan Schneider’s time at the network, with former child stars and crew members reminiscing about their experiences on the units of various shows. […]
“I can tell you why it hurts a lot,” he said at the time. “I remember very clearly my first experiences [and] My first experiences in the entertainment business. I was green, I was scared, I was excited. It meant a lot to me to have those opportunities and I went in and I was lucky because they were great.”
Looking back, “the fact that I didn’t pay that advance to every employee who walked through my door makes my heart hurt because I should have,” he added. “I wish I could go back and fix that.”
