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.

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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.”

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