First a sex tape, now a shocking tell-all? What has become of Screech?
Dustin Diamond, 32, who played Saved By the Bell's adorable dork Screech Powers for much of the 1990s, has released a preview of his new book, Behind the Bell, in which the former child star claims that sex and drugs were prevalent on the set of the teen sitcom, according to Us.
Screech tattles on fellow Saved by the Bell stars
"I could smell a certain 'smoke,' wafting from ...
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Yes, Mark-Paul Gosselaar's shaggy 'do drew a lot of attention during Raising the Bar's first season. But that was entirely by design.
"It defined a characteristic of [public defender] Jerry," the actor explains in this TVGuide.com video Q&A, "that he's not going to conform to a system."
Now that Jerry has that introductory season behind him, the locks got lopped off in the TNT drama's Season 2 opener.
"We had to evolve Jerry," Gosselaar explains. He then admits, "It was a distraction [during Season 1]. The hair was walking in ...
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Jimmy Fallon has yet to pull off his full reunion of the Saved By the Bell cast, but on Monday night's show he offered a treat to the show's fans.
That is, Zack Morris offered the treat, dropping by the late-night talker to claim that he is in fact a real dude, and that "Mark-Paul Gosselaar" is simply the stage name he adopted upon graduating from Bayside High and eventually becoming an actor.
Gosselaar shares with TVGuide.com the full story on how the spoof came to be, after the jump.
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Consider him saved by the barber.
When TNT premieres the second season of its legal drama Raising the Bar in June, Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Jerry will make an appointment to get his unwieldy mane (revisit it here, if you must) managed.
Jerry's decision to brave the buzzer comes as he reaches another birthday, and is part of a bid to present a more professional appearance to his clients.
As would be the case in real life, the public defender's makeover does not go without mention. For example ...
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Can Steven Bochco deliver a new spin on the legal drama? In this video Q&A, Mark-Paul Gosselaar previews his role in Raising the Bar, premiering tonight at 10 pm/ET, on TNT, and reveals what it's like to butt heads with Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek.Speaking of butts... Mark-Paul also shares his take on the "ridiculous" uproar caused by a nude scene from his NYPD Blue days (at the 2:00 mark). The talk then turns to Saved By the Bell, and how that cast of child stars (for the most part) turned out OK. "We didn't have the pressure [that young stars today face]," he notes. "We were allowed to be kids." That said, there may be some "wild" tales to tell. Or at least Dustin Diamond thinks so. Gosselaar, being facetious about Screech's plan for a "tell-all," says, "I'm happy to have someone finally write a book to piece together those years I've been [blanking out on]." Listen to a lot more on that at the 3:50 mark. The chat wraps with Gosselaar copping to dating several Bell ...
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