Marc Summers Claims He Turn into ‘Ambushed’ In the path of ‘Tranquil on Location’ Interview

Marc Summers walked out of Tranquil on Location after he learned in regards to the documentary’s field cloth within the course of his interview.

“They requested me what I believed of [Nickelodeon], and the first 10 to 12 seconds — from what I be aware — on this documentary is me asserting all these very honest appropriate issues. Nevertheless they did a bait and swap on me. They ambushed me,” Summers, 72, said in a Thursday, April 4, teaser for his upcoming look on Elvis Duran and the Morning Display veil on Friday, April 5, per Diversity.

Summers claimed that sooner than sitting down to behavior the interview, he was never told that the docuseries was going to duvet the toxic work surroundings on space for the length of Dan Schneider’s reign.

“They never told me what this documentary was in actuality about. And so they showed me a video of something that I couldn’t take into consideration was on Nickelodeon,” he alleged. “And I said, ‘Neatly, let’s cease the tape appropriate right here. What are we doing?’”

The ragged Double Dare host revealed after the bombshell was dropped on him, he walked out. After having a dialog about his interview, Summer season claimed he was told that he was now not going to be featured within the ID sequence, which wasn’t the case.

“I left. So I obtained a phone name about six weeks within the past asserting you’re entirely out of the purpose to. And I went, ‘Huge,’” he claimed. “Then they known as me about four weeks within the past and said, ‘Neatly, you’re in it, however you’re only within the first section of it because you talked in regards to the clear stuff of Nickelodeon. What they didn’t enlighten me — and to boot they lied to me about — was the reality that they assign aside in that other thing the assign they’d the digicam on me after they ambushed me. And so, now we fetch actual into an entire field about who’s unethical.”

In the docuseries, Summers would possibly presumably perhaps presumably additionally be considered observing a clip and asking the digicam, “Did that air on Nickelodeon?” Sooner than the moment, the doc shared several suggestive scenes from a pair of of Schneider’s programming together with Zoey 101, Sam & Cat and Victorious.

Summers, for his section, identified that he did now not work at Nickelodeon with Schneider, 58, and that he never met the TV point to creator sooner than. (Summers was the host of Nickelodeon’s sport point to Double Dare from 1986 to 1993. Schneider’s tenure started in 1993 on All That and he parted ways with the community in 2019.)

“These of us came in after and took over our studios. I never met the person, I save now not want any belief about any of these issues,” he said. “I imply, I know Kenan [[Thompson]from Kenan and Kel, because we’ve done stuff together. Nevertheless as a ways as anything else that occurred on that time to with any of these of us, I never met any of them. I didn’t know anybody. Nevertheless it made it seem like I knew these of us.”

A fifth episode of Tranquil on Location, titled “Breaking the Silence,” is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, April 7.