By no means thought that it’d be so easy! The Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh premiered in January 2004, launching The Amanda Present alums Drake Bell and Josh Peck to mainstream teen stardom and introducing audiences to Miranda Cosgrove.
“I met Miranda Cosgrove when she was 9 years outdated, like, auditioning to play my little sister. I used to be 14. Now she’s a completely grown human, she drives her Mercedes. She’s doing nice,” Peck stated of his onscreen stepsister on the April 2022 Los Angeles Instances Pageant of Books, per E! Information.
The Glad Folks Are Annoying creator added that he nonetheless had familial emotions towards his former costar. “I really feel like her older brother. I really feel protecting of her. I’m like, ‘Who’re you courting and is he good to you?’” he defined.
Peck hasn’t maintained the identical shut bond with Bell, who performed his sometimes-rival, sometimes-buddy stepbrother on the teenager comedy collection. Ten years after the present wrapped in 2007, Bell took to social media to trace that he was damage by not being invited to Peck’s June 2017 nuptials to Paige O’Brien.
“True colours have come out right this moment,” the “I Know” musician wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “Message is loud and clear. Ties are formally minimize. I’ll miss you brother.”
A supply advised Us Weekly on the time that the duo hadn’t spoken in three years. “Josh was actually damage,” the insider stated. “They aren’t shut anymore and Josh had a really small wedding ceremony.”
The 2 actors buried the hatchet later that yr and shared a photograph of them embracing on the MTV VMAs in August. “Hug me …,” they each captioned the snap, referencing their Drake & Josh catchphrase.
Regardless of the candy second, the previous costars continued to have beef in subsequent years. In March 2022, Bell and his spouse, Janet Von Schmeling, talked a few Drake & Josh reboot script allegedly written by Peck on an episode of their podcast, “Drake & Janet.”
“It wasn’t the perfect. Josh wrote Drake as a failed musician and Josh wrote himself as an actual property agent. OK, that’s nice, however Drake is a musician in actual life, so it wouldn’t make sense,” Von Schemling claimed.
Bell replied, alleging, “I simply requested him to alter a pair issues and he couldn’t and my spouse wouldn’t let me do it.”
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