Category: Saved By The Bell
Dustin Diamond Is In The Hospital, Cancer Feared
To say Dustin Diamond has struggled since child stardom would be putting it mildly. He’s been broke, made a sex tape, wrote a tell-all memoir entitled Behind the Bell (in which he claimed to have banged 2,000 women), stabbed a guy in a bar fight, went to jail, got out, went to jail again, and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother with Courtney Stodden. OK, that last one’s actually something to brag about. But this past weekend was another hard time for Dustin; he was hospitalized in Florida, and the prognosis is likely cancer.
Peacock Apologizes To Selena Gomez For Jokes About Her Kidney Transplant In The “Saved By The Bell” Reboot
Two weird Saved By The Bell-related things happened this week. The first is that the Saved By The Bell sequel/reboot/revival whatever actually got good reviews when some of us thought it was going to be shittier than the Dirty Sanchez in Screech’s eyeball-and-nose-destroying sex tape. The other thing is that the writers of the Saved By The Bell reboot have shown themselves to be obsessors of Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant (that fetish is a new one) because in one episode, they bring it up more than once. And after Selena’s fans threw shit at Peacock, they have apologized.
Open Post: Hosted By Lark Voorhies Returning As Lisa Turtle In The “Saved By The Bell” Reboot
Our throaty cries of “JUSTICE FOR LISA TURTLE” have not been in vain! According to Entertainment Weekly, Lark Voorhies, who played Bayside High’s most glamorous student, will be back for the upcoming Saved By The Bell reboot after all. Lark, who probably taught Elizabeth Berkley everything she needed to know about HIGH FASHION in preparation for her eventual role in the Best Picture In The Entire World Don’t @ Me winning film Showgirls, is the last of the original cast members (save Screech who has been, um, otherwise occupied) to be announced for reboot.
Open Post: Hosted By The Trailer For The “Saved By The Bell” Revival
NBC The Peacock has released another trailer for their upcoming Saved by the Bell reboot, which follows a new generation of teens at Bayside High. The first teaser dropped back in April and gave us a lot of Elizabeth Berkley and Mario Lopez as adults with teenaged kids. This trailer focuses more on the kids and fast Tracey Wigfield-style jokes. Tracey, the reboot’s creator/writer, worked on 30 Rock, The Mindy Project, and was the showrunner for the cancelled-too-soon Great News.
The trailer features zero signs of that Lil’ Blonde Bitch Zack Morris, who apparently went on to become the goddamn Governor of California (Arnie’s all, “What, like it’s hard?”). But don’t worry, IMDb says Mark-Paul Gosselaar appears in only three of the ten episodes. Phew! Continue reading
Lark Voorhies Is Sad She Wasn’t Asked Back For The “Saved By The Bell” Reboot
As I’m sure you’ve heard, NBC is rebooting Saved by the Bell for two very important reasons: 1. It’s 2020 so you have to revive anything that flickered onto our TV screens for even one goddamn second (still unironically waiting on that Just Shoot Me reboot, by the way), and, 2. Monies. Last we heard, the King of Smug Blonde Privilege himself, Zack Morris (aka Mark-Paul Gosselaar), had signed on to star, along with Jessie “Elizabeth Berkley” Spano, and A.C. “Mario Lopez” Slater. But what about Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Dustin Diamond, and Lark Voorhies? Well, no official word from Tiffani or Dustin (but, like, Dustin Diamond ain’t getting asked, let’s be real), but our beloved Lisa Turtle confirmed she wasn’t offered to be a part of it. Lark Voorhies discussed her sadness over the snub on Dr. Oz, while giving us business woman Marilyn Monroe.
Zack Morris Is Returning To Bayside For The “Saved By The Bell” Revival
NBCUniversal better set aside some extra cash in the budget for hair-grade peroxide cream, acid-wash denim, and a machine that freezes time (that’s how they did that, right?). Because The Hollywood Reporter says that Zack Morris will be a character on NBCUniversal’s revival of Saved by the Bell. And of course he’ll be played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar.