Dustin Diamond, the actor who played Screech on “Saved by the Bell” before attaining such lofty heights as banruptcy (2001) and a sex tape (2006), is coming out with a new tell-all book, Behind the Bell, that provides shocking revelations about the iconic ’90s teen series. Shocking revelations like… marijuana use!
I could smell a certain ’smoke,’ wafting from from the crack” underneath his castmates’ dressing rooms, says Diamond, 32.
He also alleges costarMark Paul Gosselaar — who played popular Zack Morris — used steroids before production started on 1994’s short-lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
“He suddenly exploded with manliness [that's what SHE said - Ed.], loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month,” says Diamond, who is not in touch with any of his costars. (Gosselaar, 35, has dismissed his costar’s so-called revelations to Us: “We weren’t in rehab and Mr. Belding wasn’t my crack dealer.”)
Diamond… goes on to say his costars hooked up off-camera. “If Kelly [Tiffani Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez] one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario [Lopez]’s room,” he tells the new Us Weekly. “Then, if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kisses Zack, then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul’s room.” [Us Weekly]
So there you go. Some young people in Hollywood did drugs and had sex, alleges broke failure. Stop the presses. No, seriously, stop the presses. Don’t print any more copies of this book, no one wants it.
In an appearance that harkened back to simpler, uglier times, Mark-Paul Gosselaar appeared in character as Zach Morris on last night’s episode of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” It had everything you were happy to forget about the ’90s: French-rolled acid wash jeans, a gigantic cell phone, and Elizabeth Berkeley before she got naked in Showgirls. But the highlight is definitely Gosselaar playing Zach Attack’s “Friends Forever” with the Roots (starting with 1:45 remaining). Eventually, I may one day have my mind NOT blown by the fact that the Roots are Jimmy Fallon’s house band. I’m thinking probably the year 2028.
