Keke Palmer’s Mom Calls Dan Schneider Sets ‘Very Cultish’
Keke Palmer and her mom recently discussed the unsettling atmosphere of Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon sets on the podcast ‘Baby, This Is Keke Palmer,’ describing them as "very cultish." Sharon, Keke’s mom, shared her impressions of the secrecy and seriousness that pervaded Schneider’s sets. This topic was spotlighted in the docu-series ‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,’ leading Schneider to file a defamation lawsuit. Although Keke never worked directly with Schneider, her Nickelodeon tenure included ‘True Jackson VP’ and voice acting for ‘Winx.’ The conversation also touched on Drake Bell's revelations about abuse by dialogue coach Brian Peck, evoking sympathy from Sharon for his parents.
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00:00Kiki Palmer and her mom just spoke out about Dan Schneider's Nickelodeon sets, describing
00:05them as quote, very cultish.
00:07In the most recent episode of Kiki Palmer's podcast, Baby, This is Kiki Palmer, the actress
00:13recalled her mom always felt a certain type of way about Nickelodeon, to which her mom
00:17Sharon responded, My honest opinion is I thought the whole atmosphere of the Dan Schneider
00:22set was very weird, very cultish.
00:25The parents were very secretive, and I honestly thought they all took themselves way too seriously.
00:30Dan Schneider was seemingly the main subject of a recent docu-series by Investigation Discovery
00:35and Max called Quiet on Set, The Dark Side of Kids TV, which contained multiple interviews
00:41with people who worked alongside him at Nickelodeon.
00:43Schneider has since filed a lawsuit against the Quiet on Set producers for defamation.
00:48While Kiki Palmer herself never worked on a Dan Schneider set, she was the lead in a
00:53show called True Jackson VP, and also voice acted for an animated show called Winx, both
00:58for Nickelodeon.
00:59Palmer and her mom also took a moment to share their shock over Drake Bell sharing in Quiet
01:03on Set that he was abused by Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck, to which Sharon commented,
01:09When I saw the Drake story, it just broke my heart because I could see how his parents
01:14got trapped.