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Quiet on Set previously revealed a shocking connection between Brian Peck and John Wayne Gacy before the dialogue coach was arrested for sexually abusing Drake Bell.
During the Investigation Discovery docuseries, former All That cast member Kyle Sullivan recalled Peck’s friendly demeanor, saying, “Everybody loved Brian. He was charming and clever. He was around all the time. All the parents loved him too. Everybody trusted Brian.”
Sullivan, 36, however, recalled a concerning incident when he and other Nickelodeon child stars were invited alongside their parents to Peck’s house for a party. According to Sullivan, Peck, now 64, had a painting from Gacy on display for everyone to see.
“It was of a birthday clown holding balloons. Brian got very excited and on the back it said, ‘To Brian, I hope you enjoy the painting. Best wishes, your friend John Wayne Gacy,’” Sullivan claimed. “I was 14 so I didn’t know the details but I knew this guy was a f—king serial killer.”
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Sullivan alleged Peck’s bond with Gacy went beyond that present.
“All the parents and kids come into the room and he presents the painting again. Brian actually developed a pen pal relationship with John,” he recalled. “He kept this pile of letters and photos from John Wayne Gacy in his nightstand next to his bed. He pulls them out and starts showing them.”
Gacy was a serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered dozens of young men and boys. He was sentenced to death after being convicted of 32 murders and died by lethal injection in 1994.
Sullivan explained why he thought the red flag didn’t get addressed more at the time, adding in the March 2024 doc, “Your instinct is to give the benefit of the doubt. Even in the face of this really bad sign, it was one of those classic failures of group psychology.”
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Peck was subsequently arrested in August 2003 for sexually abusing a then-unnamed child star. The 11 charges brought against Peck included oral copulation, sodomy and forcible penetration. He pleaded no contest to two charges of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 16 months in prison and had to register as a sex offender.
In the third-part of Quiet on Set, Bell, 38, broke his silence about being a victim of Peck’s abuse.
“I really don’t know how to elaborate on that on camera. … Why don’t you think of the worst stuff someone can do to somebody as a sexual assault and that will answer your question,” Bell said at the time. “I don’t know how else to put it. It was not a one-time thing.”
Peck, who has no relation to Nickelodeon star Josh Peck, has not publicly addressed the docuseries or Bell’s claims. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon released a statement to Us Weekly before Quiet on Set premiered, which read, “Now that Drake Bell has disclosed his identity as the plaintiff in the 2004 case, we are dismayed and saddened to learn of the trauma he has endured, and we commend and support the strength required to come forward.”
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Bell has since expressed his surprise at the success Peck continued to find after serving time.
“He was hanging out on set, working, going to parties and being around Hollywood like nothing happened,” Bell said on the March episode of the La entrevista con Yordi Rosado show. “I remember one time I saw him at a restaurant. He was at a table with 10 or 12 actors. They were all male actors between the ages of 14 and 16. I walked in and saw him and saw that he was just right back to what he was doing. I then turned around and left.”
The actor questioned Peck’s sentence, noting, “He was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Just 16 months and I think only of which he served only four months. When he got out, he was a registered sex offender for crimes against a child and he went right back to work.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
