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At age 12,
Dustin Diamond
rose to fame as
the nerd Screech
, one of the stars of the hit youth series Saved by the Bell.
At 23 he said goodbye to the character and, unable to get other roles, the rest of his career was spent between comedy venues, reality shows and various controversies.
This Monday the actor died in a Florida hospital
victim of a carcinoma
after he was diagnosed
with
stage 4
lung cancer
.
He was only 44 years old.
Diamond was
born on January 7, 1977 in San Jose, California, and his parents worked
in the computer industry.
At the age of 11, he passed the casting for
Saved by the Bell
, landing the role of
Samuel Screech Powers in
front of the other 5,000 children who appeared.
Although the actor always thanked the fame that this series earned him, years later he recognized that
his role pigeonholed him in such a way
that when he went to other tests they
always rejected him.
"I'm proud of the work I've done when I've done it. But
how do you get out of a character like Screech's,
get out of that mold and do something different?" He told his partner Mario López in an interview for his show
Extra
.
"I did auditions and in each one of them they told me, we have loved it, but
we see Screech a lot.
I can't change my bone structure, so what do you want me to do?"
Dustin Diamond, Screech in Saved by the Bell dies
The US network NBC aired all four seasons of
Saved by the Bell
between 1989 and 1992, but the fiction's success was such that it later produced several series and spinoff telefilms such as
Years of College, The New Generation,
and
Las Vegas Wedding
.
Dustin Diamond
continued to participate in these titles and finally said goodbye to the character in 2000 at the age of 23.
Although he later worked on some films,
his career ended up
derailed, punctuated by various scandals.
In 2006, Diamond
starred in the pornographic film
Screeched, Saved by the Smell
.
"It is the thing that I am most ashamed of," he later acknowledged, according to
The Hollywood Reporter
.
"Paris Hilton was rumored to have made $ 14 million from [her] porn video. And a friend said to me, where is the Screech porn video? You have to be worth at least a million dollars. And I thought, well, Maybe.
I got some money with him, but it was not worth it, "
added the actor, who also defended that it was not really him who appeared in the video and that
his face was added in post-production
to the body of a double.
In 2009 he published
Behind the bell
, a
controversial biography
where he assured that all the members of
Saved by the Bell
, except him,
slept together,
starred in threesomes and some even
used drugs
during filming.
Later,
Dustin Diamond
alleged that he had not written this book either and that the author had misinterpreted his comments.
The fact is that when in 2014 the Lifetime network decided to make a telefilm based on his memoirs,
Diamond
participated as an executive producer.
To top it all, on Christmas 2014 he was
involved in a bar fight
and in 2015 he was
convicted of stabbing
a man.
In 2016 he entered prison and shortly after his release he
returned to prison for violating probation.
His then fiancée, Amanda Schutz, who was convicted of disorderly conduct, also participated in the altercation.
In 2020, the streaming platform Peacock resurrected
Saved by the Bell
with much of the original cast.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack), Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie), the aforementioned Mario Lopez (Slater), Tiffani Thiessen (Kelly), Lark Voorhies (Lisa) and Ed Alonzo (Max) participated in the sequel, but not Diamond, who after Overcoming his problems with the law he
worked as a stand-up comedian.
"We are aware that
Dustin is not a respectable person for many. He
has had a series of mishaps and unfortunate events," said his representative, Roger Paul, after his death.
"We want the public to understand that
he was not intentionally evil.
He, like many people who misbehave, had suffered great upheaval and pain. His actions, while reprehensible, stemmed from loss and lack of knowledge about
how to process. that pain
appropriately. In reality, Dustin was a cheerful person whose greatest passion was
making others laugh. He
was able to recognize the emotions of others to the point of feeling them himself, a strength and a weakness all rolled into one ", he concluded.
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