Nickelodeon star recalls awkward encounter with convicted child molester Brian Peck in new “Quiet on Set” episode

"These are kids — why are you talking like that?" former "All That' actor Shane Lyons said, recalling an uncomfortable encounter from his youth.

Another Nickelodeon child star is sharing an alleged inappropriate encounter with former network dialogue coach Brian Peck, who spent time in prison for sexually abusing Drake Bell.

In the latest episode of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, former All That cast member Shane Lyons came forward for the first time to reflect on his tenure on the kids sketch show, which lasted from 2002 to 2004. Lyons, who later became a professional chef and competed on The Next Food Network Star, discussed working with Peck.

"We were enamored with, at least me personally, that there is an adult who’s also a cast member, who is someone we knew we could kinda run things by, work with, improvise with — he was very helpful in that context,” Lyons said. He also confirmed that Peck was “one hundred percent” as charming on the surface as others had previously attested.

Lyons went on to say it was “very brave” of Bell to share his story for the docuseries, including that Peck persuaded Bell's mother to let the teen stay at his house and then proceeded to sexual assault him. “The specificity of what Brian did was something nobody knew, and it’s absolutely gut-wrenching. That poor kid, now man. It’s gut-wrenching. And I feel very blessed and lucky that nothing like that happened to me.” However, he did say, “There were certainly some passes, you know.”

Lyons said that he didn’t register strange experiences with Peck as sexual or flirtatious at the time, but looking back on one incident gives him pause now. “Some conversation was happening in the green room,” he recalled. “And we get called to set, and Brian follows behind me and I’m kind of alone in the green room set, and he sits next to me, and he goes — ‘cause previously in the conversation they were talking about blue balls, and I just didn’t know what they were.”

The former All That performer repeated Peck’s uncomfortable comments. “He goes, ‘Well, we know what blue balls are, right Shane?’ I said, ‘Yeah, like racketballs,’” Lyons remembered. “I’m a kid, 13, 14, and as I think back now, as an adult, as a 36-year-old — would I ever have a conversation with a 13-year-old boy like he had with me? No! It makes absolutely zero sense… These are kids. Why are you talking like that?”

Lyons also shared his thoughts on how safety measures for child actors can be improved. “Updating the law first and foremost, so that no individual who is a convicted child molester can ever get on a Hollywood set again,” he said. “And currently there’s a loophole in the law that as long as there’s a guardian or a parent omnipresent on the set, they don’t have to hire people who go through a background check.”

“And I think more broadly, when you have a cult of personality in any work environment, inevitably, it’s ripe for toxicity,” he continued. “We get into their sphere, and their orbit, and no one wants to disrupt what’s happening, above or below.”

EW has not been able to reach Peck for comment.

All five episodes of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV are streaming on Max.

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