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Screech’s ‘Saved By the Bell’ Tell-All – Fun or Fabrication?

Sara Harowitz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:31:57 +0000

Everyone’s favourite geek is back, and he’s spilling the Bayside beans. However, not everyone is jumping for scandalous joy.

Perez Hilton recently blogged that Dustin Diamond (better known as Samuel “Screech” Powers on the 90’s TV sitcom hit “Saved By the Bell”) has less juice to squeeze out than a marshmallow. Hilton feels Diamond’s tell-all book entitled, “Behind the Bell” is less of a get-up and more of a let-down.

According to recent releases from the book, Diamond claims he could smell a “certain smoke” coming from the other cast members’ dressing rooms. He also claims that Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who played every pre-teen girl’s crush Zack Morris, used steroids before filming “Saved By the Bell: The College Years.”

Diamond writes, speaking about Gosselaar, ”He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month.”

But as Hilton says on his blog, by the time “The College Years” started filming in 1994 Gosselaar was 20, and a lot of guys bulk up around that age. And, in comparison to Diamond, who WOULDN’T look bulky?

Diamond is also apparently suggesting that there was a lot of chemistry off-camera between the cast members: “If Kelly [Tiffany Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez] one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario [Lopez]’s room. Then, if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kisses Zack [Mark-Paul Gosselaar], then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul’s room.”

Hilton deems these accusations to be “lame lame lame.”

“Behind the Bell,” which Gotham Books preempted from Objective Entertainment’s Jarred Weisfeld, has promised to detail “sexual escapades among cast members, drug use, and hardcore partying,” according to New York Magazine, and does not currently have a release date.

Diamond, who suffered a sex tape scandal back in 2006 in which he romps with two women, hasn’t had much of a career since “Saved By the Bell” ended in 1997.

So – is the book a true deep-dish or just a way to get Diamond back in the spotlight? Only the Bell will tell.

Screech Tells All

Vanessa Baker — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:33:44 +0000

Dustin Diamond, better-known as Saved by the Bell’s Screech, is releasing a tell-all memoir about his time on the show, reports Perez Hilton. Diamond reportedly writes about “sexual escapades among cast members, drug use, and hardcore partying.”

However, his former publisher, Gotham, has refused to release the book, and his former cast mates insist the allegations in his memoir are false.

“This book is freaking incredible!,” said Jarred Weisfeld, Diamond’s literary agent. “Everyone that reads it loves it, and it is truly one of my favourites of all time.”

Screech Joins the List of Celebs With Sex Tapes

andPOP Staff — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:49:04 +0000

He is probably the most unlikely of sex stars, but former Saved by the Bell cast member Dustin Diamond does indeed have a sex tape.

Like Paris Hilton and Colin Farrel before him, Diamond, better known by his character name of Screech, “accidentally” lost his sex tape and it’s ended up in the hands of a distributor.

“Just when you think you have seen everything in this business,” said agent David Hans Schmidt to the New York Daily News, “mankind has raised the bar another notch. Or lowered it.”

The 40-minute tape features Diamond with two unidentified girls in a variety of positions, including one referred to as a Dirty Sanchez.

“I haven’t seen the tape,” Diamond’s agent Roger Paul told the NYDN. “I’ve heard rumours. Dustin has been trying to escape the Screech typecast. So this may help me get more bookings.”

Dustin Diamond Mugged

andPOP Staff — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:15:35 +0000

Dustin Diamond says a fan mugged him early Monday morning in Omaha, E! Online reports.

Diamond tells E! that he was performing at the Funny Bone comedy club Sunday night when he was approached by the fan. She later appeared at his hotel room, banging on the door until he opened it.

“I wake up and go to the bathroom and all of a sudden I hear this pound-pound-pound at the door. I look out and see this girl with her hair hung down and I didn’t put it together right away that it’s the girl at the club, ” Diamond told E!.

“And [around 3 a.m.] she’s at the door screaming, ‘Come on, Screech, my phone’s in there.’ And clearly just being a comedian, I’m like, ‘Yeah yeah where is it?’ ”

He didn’t let the woman in, but she was still in the hall when he left his room 45 minutes later to catch a flight.

“Somehow she got back in and is now holding a can of Mace up,” he recounted. “I’m freaked out and jump back and she says, ‘Where’s the money, come on, tell me where it is, and she’s trying to look through my bags,” Diamond says.

The fan eventually made off with a couple of the actor’s video games. He was able to call 911 and hotel security, but he got his games back before the police arrived.

The Omaha Police Department told E! that both parties were questioned, and that no charges have been laid.

Screech Needs Your Help

andPOP Staff — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:56:25 +0000

Well, if you ever wanted a Screech t-shirt, here’s your chance.

Actor Dustin Diamond, who played the Lisa-crazed goof on “Saved by the Bell” has pleaded online for his fans to help him raise $250,000 to save his Port Washington, Wisc. house from foreclosure, CBC reports.

The actor says for a donation of $15-20, the donor will get a shirt that says “I paid $15.00 to save Screeech’s house.” For $20, the shirt will be autographed. Diamond estimates in order to raise the money needed he’ll have to sell at least 30,000 shirts.

On his website the actor explained the situation, “During the past years, the land around me has developed for the better and my property value went way up. Now that the house is worth a lot more, [the owners] want it back. Knowing my credit is bad, getting a straight mortgage would take some time. I received a letter stating that I had 30 days to pay $250,000 or get out. I was not thrilled.”

Diamond filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and has been working as a stand up comic for the last few years.