Category: Dan Schneider
Jennette McCurdy Claims Nickelodeon Offered Her $300,000 In Hush Money
Last year, former child star Jennette McCurdy, best known for her role as Sam Puckett in Nickelodeon’s iCarly and Sam & Cat, announced she was done with acting and would be shifting her focus to writing, directing, and podcasting. Since then, 30-year-old Jennette actually wrote something (um, a real writer would procrastinate for years!); a memoir, entitled I’m Glad My Mom Died. That was also the title of her one-woman show, so, like, Jennette’s definitely glad mom Debra McCurdy died of cancer in 2013.
Ahead of her book’s August 9 release, Jennette did an interview with The New York Times and discussed some of her memoir’s more troubling revelations, including the fact that Nickelodeon allegedly offered her $300,000 in hush money to never talk about her experiences with the network. It doesn’t take the child genius brain of iCarly (was she smart? I never watched) to put two and two together… this has gotta be Dan Scheider-related. Continue reading
Nickelodeon Has Parted Ways With Dan Schneider
Dan Schneider, the one on the left who looks like a discount Chris Farley impersonator, was in Head of the Class and later was involved with dozens of Nickelodeon shows. He was also the focus of some extremely unsettling rumors about him and kids. Yesterday, Nickelodeon announced they’re done with Dan Schneider. I have no idea why that is.