Brian Peck, Drake Bell.
Getty Images (2)Quiet on the set previously discovered a shocking connection between Brian Peck AND John Wayne Gacy before the dialogue coach was arrested for sexual abuse Drake Bell.
During the discovery documentation of the investigation, ex All this cast member Kyle Sullivan recalled Peck’s friendly demeanor, saying, “Everybody loved Brian. He was charming and smart. He was around all the time. All the parents loved it too. Everyone trusted Brian.”
Sullivan, 36, however, recalled a troubling incident when he and other Nickelodeon child stars were invited along with their parents to Peck’s home for a party. According to Sullivan, Peck, now 64, had a painting by Gacy on display for all to see.
“It was a birthday clown holding balloons. Brian was very excited and on the back was written, “Brian, I hope you like the painting.” Best wishes, your friend John Wayne Gacy,” Sullivan asserted. “I was 14 so I didn’t know the details, but I knew this guy was a serial killer of the king.”
Drake Bell spoke out about being sexually assaulted by Nickelodeon’s Brian Peck for the first time in the new documentary series, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. During the third episode of the Investigation Discovery special, which will air Monday, March 18, Bell, 37, identified himself as the child star who reported (…)
Sullivan claimed that Peck’s relationship with Gacy went beyond the present.
“All the parents and children enter the room and he presents the painting again. Brian actually developed a friendly relationship with John,” he recalls. “He kept this stack of letters and photos from John Wayne Gacy on his bedside table. He takes them out and starts showing them.”
Gacy was a serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and killed dozens of young men and boys. He was sentenced to death after being convicted of 32 murders and died by lethal injection in 1994.
Sullivan explained why he thought the red flag wasn’t addressed more at the time, adding in the March 2024 filing, “Your instinct is to give the benefit of the doubt. Even in the face of this really bad sign, it was one of those classic group psychology failures.”
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Peck was subsequently arrested in August 2003 for sexually abusing a then-unidentified child star. The 11 charges against Peck included oral copulation, sodomy and forcible penetration. He pleaded no contest to two counts of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 16 months in prison and required to register as a sex offender.
In the third installment of Quiet on Set, Bell, 38, broke his silence about being a victim of Peck’s abuse.
“I really don’t know how to elaborate this on camera. … Why don’t you think of the worst thing that someone can do to someone as a sexual assault and that will answer your question,” Bell said at the time. “I don’t know how else to express it. It wasn’t just one thing.”
Peck, who is no relation to the Nickelodeon star Josh Peckhas not publicly addressed the documents or Bell’s claims. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon released a statement to Us Weekly BEFORE Quiet on the set premiered, which read: “Now that Drake Bell has revealed his identity as the plaintiff in the 2004 case, we are shocked and saddened to learn of the trauma he has endured, and we commend and support the necessary force to get ahead.”
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Bell has since expressed his amazement at the success Peck continued to find after his time in the service.
“He was on set, working, going to parties and being around Hollywood like nothing happened,” Bell said in the March episode. Interview with Yordi Rosado show “I remember seeing him once in a restaurant. He was at a table with 10 or 12 actors. They were all male actors between the ages of 14 and 16. I went in, looked at him and saw that he was right back to what he was doing. Then I turned and left.”
The actor questioned Peck’s sentence, noting: “He was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Only 16 months and I think only for which he served only four months. When he got out, he was a registered sex offender for crimes against a child and went right back to work.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
