Dustin Diamond, the comedian actor guy who played meganerd Screech on Saved by the Bell, is telling all on his former co-stars in a new book that came out this week. Us Weekly has a sneak peek at the sordid secrets of Bayside High School:
“I could smell a certain ’smoke,’ wafting from from the crack” underneath his castmates’ dressing rooms, says Diamond, 32, who played the dork Screech.
He also alleges costar Mark Paul Gosselaar — who played popular Zack Morris — used steroids before production started on 1994’s short-lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
“He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month,” says Diamond, who is not in touch with any of his costars. (Gosselaar, 35, has dismissed his costar’s so-called revelations to Us: “We weren’t in rehab and Mr. Belding wasn’t my crack dealer.” His rep had no comment.)
Diamond — who filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and had his own sex tape released in 2006 — goes on to say his costars hooked up off-camera.
“If Kelly [Tiffani Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez] one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario [Lopez]’s room,” he tells the new Us Weekly. “Then, if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kisses Zack, then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul’s room.”
Backing up a moment to that sex tape — the verb tense is correct. He released his own obscene sex tape against the advice of his agent because he thought it would help establish his comedy career:
Unlike in cases of the other aforementioned celebrities, Dustin Diamond will not try to prevent the tape from going public. To everybody’s surprise, his manager, Roger Paul, said he is actually hoping that seeing Screech getting at it would help him shake off the Screech typecast and establish him as the serious stand-up comedian that he is.
“I haven’t seen the tape. I’ve heard rumors. Dustin has been trying to escape the Screech typecast. So this may help get more bookings,” Paul added.
I have to assume the Screech typecast was probably working more for him than Gross Douchebag Nobody Will Ever Want To Work With Again. How is this book funny at all?
By the way, that is the actual cover design at right. It was apparently made using Kid Pix graphics software around the time Saved by the Bell was still on the air.
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He looks like a creepy magician on the cover with how his hands look. It’s almost like he’s saying “Poof! and with that ladies and gentlemen, my career has completely VANISHED!”
Sorry, but SCreech will not get my money. Who cares? Unlike some of his costars, he is a washed up has been. I remember him on Celebrity Fit Club and how much of an ass he was. Not to mention the whole t-shirt thing to try to save his house. What an absolute douchebag!
Damn you Irish! DAMN you!
That is exactly what I was thinking pretty much word for word.
I bet none of you saw his rock band. I have. Who wants my autograph?
Where’s the deception/hypocrisy here?
There is no deception here. No hypocricy here either. Admit it Holly…this is your attempt to bolster the sagging career of THE crush of your youth and now your favorite “comedian”. LOL (Just Kidding.)
Hey where did my comment go?
I will repeat it…
No deception here…No hypocrisy here. Admit it Holly. The is just an attempt to bolster the career of THE crush of your youth and now your favorite comedian. (Just kidding. Please don’t erase me, this is my favorite site.)
The book is so boring it made this post boring. Nothing against you Holly but cot damn.
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The deception is that he’s trying to “establish him[self] as the serious stand-up comedian that he is” and he’s just obviously, nauseatingly, painfully not funny. And he’s making shit up about his former co-stars to boost his own career.
OK, so the hypocrisy is a bit of a stretch. But GUYS. He’s such a douchebag!
WAIT WAIT WAIT. Is he telling me that young people may have smoked pot and slept around a bit? I am shocked. SHOCKED. This book has opened my eyes. My world will never be the same!
Dustin Diamond’s only claims to fame, whatsoever, are the most horrifying sex tape EVER, and having been the most catastrophically retarded thing about the most catastrophically retarded show EVER. And this is in a world where “Charles In Charge” made it past three episodes, so you know it’s bad. The only comedic thing about him is that he takes himself seriously enough to leave the house.
Who was he again?? LOL
So castmate kiddies hooked up…didn’t they do that way back in the Brady Bunch era? The Dobie Gillis era?
Castmates did drugs…..haven’t they done that in EVERY era?
Heeeee….Beige said it best, and the tell-all book just comes off as jealousy, pure and simple.
AAW – i remember that too! he asked people to send him 5 bucks per t shirt for his house. then he said it was all a scam. how sad (and pathetic) on another note i love saved by the bell.. i have all the seasons on ebay :X
i have all the seasons on DVD* seriously why did i say ebay? i need sleep.
So they all smoked pot (except for him) and slept together (except for him).
This all just sounds like sour grapes to me.
Wah! They all had fun and left me out! Wah!
Here is something by one of the ‘Saved by the Bell’ cast members that would definately be more popular than that book: http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/20550119/detail.html
At least it is less strange than the porn tape. Still odd, but it will not have you reaching for the mindbleach.
Douchbaggery is being a hypocrite at life. So if you ever question the good folks here “Where’s the hypocrisy” it’s the fact that these famous people are being complete jerks toward what made them famous in the first place.
Wait…he actually got some girl to sleep with him? I don’t know who is more unappealing, him or Jon Gosselin.
And why does this sound like he was peeking through the keyholes of his costars doors? Really, I’m getting a Norman Bates watching through the hole in the wall vibe from his insinuations there. Prevert.
Screech Holly? Oh you can do so much better.
He’s no Lark Voorhies (mmmm).
Sweet Lord no! He must be still jealous that he didn’t have a sleazy role in “Showgirls”.
http://www.screechsucks.com