Jennie Garth had little to say about Dan Schneider, who she worked with on the TV series What I Like About You, amid renewed focus on the controversial TV creator with the release of the documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.
Garth, 51, told The Hollywood Reporter Saturday, ‘I don’t want to talk about Dan Schneider ever again in my life,’ when asked about the TV exec, 58.
Schneider with Will Calhoun created The WB comedy, which co-starred Amanda Bynes, 37, and ran for 86 episodes over four seasons from 2002–2006,
Garth, who played the role of Valerie Tyler on the series, told THR of Bynes, who played her sister Holly, ‘I just love her and I would love to see her at any point.’
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum told the outlet that she has not communicated with Bynes since the release of Quiet on Set last month on Investigation Discovery.
Jennie Garth, 51, had little to say about Dan Schneider, 58, who she worked with on the TV series What I Like About You, amid renewed focus with the release of the documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kid. Pictured in LA in December 2023
Garth told The Hollywood Reporter Saturday, ‘I don’t want to talk about Dan Schneider ever again in my life,’ when asked about the TV exec, 58. Pictured in LA in 2011
Quiet on Set, which initially hit the air March 17 and 18, investigated the problematic workplace conditions child stars on Nickelodeon faced decades back.
The documentary raised multiple allegations against Schneider ranging from humiliating staffers, writing bits not appropriate for children to appear in, and overseeing a toxic workplace.
Schneider, who first found fame as an actor on the ABC sitcom Head of the Class from 1986-1991, would go on to create a number of prominent series for Nickelodeon, including iCarly, Zoey 101 and Drake & Josh.
He worked on What I Like About You for two seasons of the show’s four-season run, US Weekly reported.
Schneider himself took to YouTube with a video clip March 19 in which he spoke with iCarly actor Bobbie K. Bowman about his thoughts after seeing Quiet on Set, saying he felt like he needed to make amends with some of his former co-workers.
‘Watching over the past two nights was very difficult for me,’ Schneider said. ‘Facing my past behaviors, some of which are embarrassing and that I regret, and I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology.’
While many Nickelodeon alums were featured in the documentary including Drake Bell (Drake & Josh) and All That’s Giovonnie Samuels, Kyle Sullivan and Bryan Hearne. Bynes did not speak in the doc, and has not commented in the wake of its airing.
In the doc, director Virgil L. Fabian detailed how Schneider ‘immediately knew she would be a star,’ after seeing her at the Los Angeles Laugh Factory and casting her on his shows All That and The Amanda Show.
Garth and Amanda Bynes played sisters Valerie and Holly Tyler on the show from 2002-2006
Garth told THR of Bynes, ‘I just love her and I would love to see her at any point’
What I Like About You marked the last project the pair worked together on.
Schneider said in his response clip that he ‘supported’ Bynes when she sought to be emancipated from her parents in 2013. (She was subsequently put into a conservatorship, which was scuttled in 2022.)
‘She tried to get emancipated,’ Schneider said in his clip. ‘It ended up not working out and she didn’t.’
Schneider’s professional relationship with Nickelodeon in 2018 amid allegations of inappropriate behavior, which he denied. Schneider, through his rep, released a statement to US Weekly last month prior to the documentary airing,
‘Dan cared about the kids on his shows even when sometimes their own families unfortunately did not,’ Schneider’s team said in the statement. ‘He understood what they were going through and he was their biggest champion.
‘The fact is many of the kids on these shows are put in the untenable position of becoming the breadwinner for their family and the pressure that comes along with that. Add on top of that the difficulties of growing up and having to do so under the spotlight while working a demanding job, all as a child.’
Schneider’s team said that dynamic ‘is why there are many levels of standards, executives, lawyers, teachers and parents everywhere, all the time, on every set, every day.
‘However, it is still a hard place to be a kid and nobody knew that better than Dan.’
