Brian Peck, Drake Bell.
Getty Images (2)Silence on the set revealed earlier shocking connection between Brian Peck and John Wayne Gacy before the dialogue coach was arrested for sexual assault Drake Bell.
During the Discovery docuseries 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 him too. Everyone believed Brian.
However, the 36-year-old Sullivan recalled a distressing incident when he and other Nickelodeon child stars were invited along with their parents to Peck’s house for a party. According to Sullivan, Peck, now 64, put a Gacy painting on display for all to see.
“He was at a birthday clown holding balloons. Brian got very excited and wrote on the back: “To Brian, I hope you like the picture. Best regards, your friend John Wayne Gacy,” Sullivan said. “I was 14 so I didn’t know the details but I knew this guy was a royal serial killer.”
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Sullivan claims Peck’s relationship with Gacy transcend this present.
“All the parents and children come into the room and he introduces the picture again. Brian actually developed a friendship with John,” he recalls. “He kept this pile of letters and photographs from John Wayne Gacy in his bedside table. He takes them out and starts showing them.”
Gacy was a serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered 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 received no further attention at the time, adding in the March 2024 paper. “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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i peck he was subsequently arrested in August 2003 for sexually abusing a then-unnamed child star. The 11 charges brought against Peck include oral sex, 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, 38-year-old Bell broke his silence about being a victim from Peck’s abuse.
“I really don’t know how to explain this on camera. … Why don’t you think of the worst thing that someone can do to someone as sexual assault and that will answer your question,” Bell said at the time. “I don’t know how else to put it. It wasn’t a one-time thing.”
Peck, who has nothing to do with the Nickelodeon star Josh Peckhas not publicly addressed the documents or Bell’s claims. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon released a statement to Us Weekly before Silence on the set premiere, which read: “Now that Drake Bell has revealed his identity as the plaintiff in the 2004 case, we are horrified and saddened to learn of the trauma he suffered, and we applaud and support the strength it took to come forward .”
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Bell ever since expressed his surprise at the success Peck continued to find after serving time.
“He was hanging out on set, working, going to parties and being around Hollywood like nothing happened,” Bell said on the March episode of The interview with Yordi Rosado show. “I remember seeing him once in a restaurant. He was at a table with 10-12 actors. All were male actors between the ages of 14 and 16. I walked in and saw him and saw that he had just gone back to what he was doing. Then I turned and left.”
The actor questioned Peck’s sentencenoting: “He was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Only 16 months and I think he only served four months of that. 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).
