As you already know, there have been quite a few claims circulating for years regarding Schneider’s alleged inappropriate behavior with young actors while he worked on the network. These accusations range from making a toxic work environment to engaging in inappropriate conduct with underage performers.
Schneider also faced speculation and rumors about having a foot fetish, with some alleging that he incorporated scenes involving characters’ feet in his shows in a suggestive or inappropriate manner. Nonetheless, these claims haven’t been confirmed.
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He has also been accused of s-xualizing scenes involving young actors and actresses, including one on ‘Zoey 101’ with Jamie Lynn Spears and Alexa Nikolas.
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Goo Pop Gone Unsuitable On ‘Zoey 101’
Within the docuseries, Alexa Nikolas from ‘Zoey 101′ recalled a scene where she had trouble opening up a goo pop, which then resulted in a transparent, greenish goo being squirted onto Jamie Lynn Spears’ face, which several of the boys allegedly known as a “c-m shot,” per Nikolas.
Nikolas has also previously spoken out concerning the abusive and toxic environment at Nickelodeon.
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“At any time when I had wardrobe fittings, [Schneider] at all times needed to be in them,” Nikolas said during an interview with Victoria Garrick on the Real Pod podcast last yr. “Thank God there was a curtain, but he was literally on a chair right outside of the curtain. I needed to wear very short skirts. Something that [in] the interviews that I’ve done that I haven’t mentioned yet was that I needed to wear biker shorts under my skirts, they usually needed to cut the biker shorts since the skirts were too short. … I used to be continuously having to roll down these biker shorts.”
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Alexa Nikolas Speaks Out Against Nickelodeon
Within the ‘Quiet On Set’ docuseries, Nikolas made an appearance where she talked about her experience when filming ‘Zoey 101’.
“Towards the tip of season 2 of ‘Zoey 101’, I wasn’t blissful,” she shared. “I actually couldn’t show as much as set anymore without crying. Lots of my self-worth was deeply damaged from that set experience. Me as an individual was altered for all times.”
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Dan Schneider Apologizes Following Airing Of ‘Quiet On Set’
“Watching over the past two nights was very difficult,” he said of the docuseries, which is now streaming on MAX. “Me facing my past behaviors, a few of that are embarrassing and that I regret, I definitely owe some people a reasonably strong apology.”
“I wish I could return, especially to those earlier years of my profession, and produce the expansion and the experience that I even have now and just do a greater job and never, ever feel prefer it was okay to be an a–hole to anyone, ever,” he went on.
Alexa Nikolas Says She Doesn’t Forgive Dan Schneider
In her nearly two-hour video, Nikolas addressed Schneider’s recent apology, claiming it was not an actual apology.
“When someone doesn’t personally come to you and apologize, it’s not an apology,” she said within the video. “When you hear about it through other people, it’s probably not an apology, right? An apology is to the individual that you hurt…. I might’ve appreciated if Dan apologized on to me…. Where’s a phone call of an apology? How come you possibly can do [that video]…but not reach out to the individual that [you] hurt?”
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“I do not forgive Dan Schneider,” she continued, “Not saying I’ll never, right? But currently, without delay, that made me a bit of more upset, simply because that just wasn’t it. That wasn’t proper accountability. That was avoiding loads of the essential discussions here that were mentioned in ‘Quiet on Set’. This was him playing the sympathy card, centering himself, playing the victim.”
Alexa Nikolas Calls Dan Schneider A ‘Privileged White Male’
She didn’t stop there, as she continued to slam the previous Nickelodeon producer, claiming, “You don’t feel anything, Dan.”
Nikolas went on to accuse Schneider of being like “every fr-ckin’ privileged white male I’ve truthfully ever met on set” adding that he “doesn’t even know what accountability is.”
“You’re trying to find it perhaps, but you haven’t landed on it. That’s obviously,” she told her viewers. “This isn’t the best way. I don’t wanna have to observe this. I might have so reasonably gotten a letter from you, for instance, apologizing, genuinely, than having to witness the entire world watching regardless of the h-ll that is.”
‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV’ is currently streaming on MAX. It’s going to also re-air on Investigation Discovery this Friday, March 22, 2024, at 10 p.m. ET.
