Josh Peck explained why he 'fell out' with Drake Bell despite acting together for years
The pair starred together on iconic kids' show, Drake & Josh
Josh Peck explained why he had a 'falling out' with Drake Bell despite their many years acting together on Drake & Josh.
Millions of fans tuned in to watch the Nickelodeon series starring Bell and Peck between 2004 and 2007.
The hugely popular show saw the pair play the 'enemies-to-friends' stepbrothers who were forced to share a room after their parents got married.
The Nickelodeon series was hugely successful and an iconic kids' show for anyone growing up in the early noughties.
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However, after the show came to a close, the two actors seemingly drifted apart, as Peck had previously revealed their standing in terms of their friendship.
In 2022, the Red Dawn actor appeared on the BFFs with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards podcast, where he spoke about his former co-star and the 'rumoured feud' between them.
"Oh, he's fine. I wish him the best," Peck said, explaining that they're 'not really' friends, before discussing his not inviting Bell to his wedding to Paige O'Brien back in 2017.
"I get married to my wife and I marry this good Irish Catholic girl... We have this small wedding," he continued.
"The dirty little secret, I guess, was like, I knew that Drake and I didn't stay in touch for the 10 years since we had made the show. But no one needed to know that. Like, I was happy to just die with that secret that we made this thing that people really love, but maybe we weren't that close.
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"So I didn't invite him to my wedding because I hadn't really talked to him in many, many years."
In 2024, the pair broke their silence on speculation over their fallout by appearing together on Peck's 'Good Guys' podcast.
“I have my perspective,” Bell said. “Especially because we were going through this, like, during our adolescence and when we were changing and learning.
"It’s going to be interesting to see what my perspective was and what your perspective was and if they align at all. I would say there were times when we hung out a lot and we were close and then there were times when — not for any reason — but just we weren’t."
He also recalled moments where their relationship wasn't the greatest, adding: "There were times where it was like, we might not have been getting along.
"But I think we were dealing with a lot of s**t outside of our relationship or outside of us working together."
Their reunion came after Bell appeared in Discovery’s four-part docuseries Quiet on Set, in which he revealed he was a victim of dialogue coach Brian Peck's alleged abuse.
At the time, Peck showed his support for Bell, writing online: “I finished the Quiet On Set documentary and took a few days to process it.
"I reached out to Drake privately, but wanted to give my support for the survivors who were brave enough to share their stories of emotional and physical abuse on Nickelodeon sets with the world.
“Children should be protected. Reliving this publicly is incredibly difficult, but I hope it can bring healing for the victims and their families as well as necessary change to our industry.”
On 5 November, Bell and Peck reunited again, this time in an Instagram video of them drinking coffee together.
Peck wrote in the caption: "If anyone was going to get me back, I’d want it to be @drakebell."
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