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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.”

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Christian Slater has fallen off a roof. Not Paris Hilton’s, but Paris Hilton’s neighbour’s. What a strange world.

Slater was attending a party thrown by the hotel heiress and was apparently peering over the edge of the roof to look at Hilton’s neighbours when he took a tumble. The one-story was stopped by some bushes and he was unhurt.

The party, held in a West Hollywood neighbourhood, generated some complaints about the noise.

Some sources told the New York Post that Slater was tasered by the LAPD – which is a whole different kind of funny – but a police spokeswoman denied that story. “He was not injured, not hurt, not arrested.”

Slater has been in trouble with the law for various reasons (assault, drugs and drunk driving included) in the past. In September, prosecutors dropped misdemeanour harassment charges against him, provided he could stay out of trouble for six months. Slater’s lawyer doesn’t think falling off a roof counts as legal trouble, saying, “I don’t believe that Mr. Slater’s having a good time at Paris Hilton’s party will have any effect on his New York case.”