After all, how was the relationship between Drake Bell and Josh Peck?

“Hug me, bro!” This phrase is responsible for marking the relationship between the protagonist half-brothers of ‘Drake & Josh’, a Nickelodeon series shown between 2004 and 2007, where the actors Drake Bell It is Josh Peck gave life to a duo that had little in common when it came to personality, but who were always united to live fun challenges.

Although the characters’ relationship was admirable on screen, outside the spotlight the situation seems to have been a little different between Bell It is Peckactors who had their careers boosted after participating in the production that had four seasons, but who had acted together for the first time years before, in ‘The Amanda Show’, Nick’s children’s and youth humorous program that appeared in 1999 and ended in 2002 .

After all, how was the relationship between Drake Bell and Josh Peck

This is because the friendship between the actors has gone through some ups and downs, the best known of which is the controversy that took place in 2007, the year the series ended, when Josh Peck married his girlfriend Paige O’Brienwhere fans noticed that Drake Bell was not present at the important moment in the life of the one with whom he shared scripts and scenes in two different shows since the end of the 90s.

The subject ended up gaining momentum on social media, which made Bell express his dissatisfaction with the lack of an invitation in a post on Twitter that was later deleted.

The truth came out. The message is loud and clear. The knot is officially cut. I miss you, brother”, wrote the actor, according to the Observatório do Cinema portal.

Although the situation had remained unanswered at the time, information released by Elite Daily that was passed on by the OC in 2020, revealed that apparently the disagreement had been overcome, since drake appeared in videos on the Youtube channel of joshincluding a video in which josh announced his wife’s pregnancy.

However, the story gained a new chapter in 2022 when Peck participated in the podcast ‘BFFs with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards’. As disclosed by Monet magazine, during the chat, the actor revealed that he had distanced himself from Bell.

When he was asked if the two were still friends, he replied: “Not really, no.” Furthermore, he revealed that the relationship between the two was not as tight as some of the media and fans might believe:

I didn’t invite him to my wedding and the internet freaked out,” Peck recalled. “But nobody needed to know about it… I would have been very happy that [o casamento] Had it been a secret, we only called the ones we really loved, but the two of us weren’t that close.”

In addition, he recalled the reaction of Bellin saying that he started “a whole press tour, telling how heartbroken he was, creating a completely false narrative.”

Peck he also said that when they met backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2019, he asked that drake apologize to his wife, who at the time had been upset about what had happened. That was the last time the two saw each other, according to the actor.

Maybe it was the most Soprano thing I’ve ever done… I went up to him and said, ‘Go now and apologize to my wife’”.

Janet BellDrake’s wife, responded to statements by Peck through his Instagram Stories, where he revealed that the VMA moment was not exactly as told by the actor: “You said, ‘can you apologize to my wife?’. And Drake said, ‘sure’. And he asked and everything turned out great. And we actually went out after that, several times. We talked several times after that.”