Why Mark-Paul Gosselaar & Dustin Diamond *really* weren’t close + their last interaction.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar discusses with Kristian Harloff about his late co-star Dustin Diamond. He discusses why therey weren't close and when his last interaction we with him before Diamond passed away.
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[@HBDSHOUTOUTS]

This dude seems so well put together. There’s something to be said about disconnecting with social media & not being hungry for attention at every turn.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

Have you seen Britney Spears lately? Holy sweet jesus, that girl needs inner peace.

[@Steveman27]

He probably chats with people on facebook on his downtime like anyone else.

[@roems6396]

Until he said “I’m a Pisces man” as if that means anything at all. 😂

[@BrooklynBaby100]

@@Shorty_LickensHer drunk father is to blame.

[@GoLakers3900]

His name is Zack.

[@BishopWalters12]

A least he's being honest and not pretending like they were best buds.

[@jwbphotography]

⁠@ConnieHighRoller777How so?

[@brianmeen2158]

@ConnieHighRoller777really? I got a pretty honest vibe from Mark

[@brianmeen2158]

@ConnieHighRoller777I bet Dustin did lie about quite a bit

[@vincentjohnflorio]

​@@KrisBryant99he just told you not to invent stuff because he created space thinking he was too young and acknowledged he should have maybe been more inclusive and said the book put him off but he doesn't hold grudges.... It's a set of like a hundred people and the sad guy who felt left out is the only one with even anecdotal evidence of anything

[@Nay-kp6uu]

@@KrisBryant99 I think everyone was a weirdo in their teens. Granted you have to be old enough to be able to look back and understand, with perspective

[@erickchurch5390]

I’ve never understood why people can’t separate fiction from reality. They were not best friends. They were actors…co-workers…who played best friends. I’ve never been best friends with any of my co-workers and I almost never keep in touch with any of them after we stop working together.

[@Rockindaxmike]

Yeah true, I don’t keep in comtsct with most co workers. There are few but it’s mostly just Facebook commenting

[@Mr.Pacario]

Yeah, but if you’re the one left out of the herd-the only one excluded-it can be tough. It’s a shame the larger group couldn’t have done better to include him. Guess he was as much Screech in real life as he was on the show.

[@jsk4502]

@@Mr.Pacario Screech was weird looking and acting. It may not be nice, but those are the people that get bullied in school, or at least ostracized.

[@Mr.Pacario]

@@jsk4502 Shame that extended to that small group of actors.

[@GangstaStan010]

Hell, the way Zack treated Screech, the character's were barely best friends. 😂

[@joshuamccracken1498]

I ran into Dustin at a Milwaukee-area club around 2006. As my entire high school career had been spent with people telling me I looked exactly like him I decided to go up and say hi. The thing I’ll never forget is me mentioning the high school thing to him and him responding, “At least high school ended for you.” The guy clearly never found that emotional balance he needed to move past whatever grievances he had and become a functioning adult. Very, very sad.

[@Fighttilltheend0136]

Yup

[@ryanr4302]

Dustin diamond wasn't a very nice or kind person. Listen to the comedian Slade ham talk about him

[@rolandofgilead43]

the thing about your remark is yes High school does end but if you have a terrible it can affect you for years. with me i had my heart broken for the 1st time and though i'm long over her it still has affected me in some ways. Dustin though was Desperate to stay famous to the point if you recall he did a porn on the basis of going back and being famous. the thing is i don't know as far as i'm aware of anyone who's actually seen it.

[@ernestclayboniii656]

Maybe so but he was telling the truth about his situation.

[@rolandofgilead43]

@@ernestclayboniii656 I try and give people the benefit of the doubt and most are good people I think. Honestly I thought they were all close back than. I guess they weren't apparently I wonder how many of them are still close ?

[@dthill96]

When you’re kids something like a 3 year age gap can mean an almost borderline eternity difference between em.

[@stevemyopinion423]

yea and he was not good looking.

[@Mari000]

Very true

[@juandufree4309]

It was more than 3 years and you’re right. He was hitting puberty when they were close to graduating high school. I feel bad for Dustin he had to work with these people for multiple seasons and always went to work knowing he wouldn’t fit in.

[@Dan-di9jd]

Even more so for high school students, each year definitely marks a different level of maturity and understanding about others. It could have been Dustin saw his costars differently but perhaps realistically there was nothing going on with any of them. It sounds like they just grown up and each went their own way.

[@MyNameJeff..]

@@stevemyopinion423what does that have anything to do with anything? Lol low iq post.

[@azaze-u7r]

Mark seems like a really cool guy, down to earth

[@cormacthem8406]

Dude looks like a douche to me 👍

[@firebird_spleen4190]

Really good liar

[@buschleaguers75]

@@firebird_spleen4190 whats he lying about?

[@jeffreyross71]

Man i use to watch saved by the bell every single day growing up. I must have watched every episode over 20 times.

[@benignobrionesiii]

Same. I started catching episodes again on Prime. I'm in my 40s. Nostalgia.

[@MissLippy-fy6bj]

I remember they had a 2 hour block on tbs followed immediately by a 2 hour block on wgn.

[@chipgarrett3139]

Yup. Im 45. I watched them go from grade school to high school then college. Not the greatest show ever, but it sure meant alot to me.

[@ForEternia]

Same. I remember watching it originally on NBC every Saturday morning. Never got tired watching it in reruns as well. Such a part of my childhood 😊

[@brianmeen2158]

Same. I grew up On that show.

[@Canine_Mind]

Love the honesty. So many people will change the story after someone passes, but love that Mark has always kept it real. They were kids. Of course they weren’t all beauties. Especially with the age gap

[@uncledick9445]

His name isn't Mark.

[@RocStarr913]

Dustin Diamond wasn’t that bad looking.

[@deegoodwin4060]

@@RocStarr913i think he means besties

[@cormacthem8406]

This is a kid Mark directly worked alongside and had lines with for hours upon hours a day. The fact that he had no connection to Diamond tells me that Mark was a douche that wasn’t interested in befriending anyone without tits or someone who can get him close to some. I don’t think he’s one anymore, he seems like a very honest guy.

[@franquil85conn]

​@@cormacthem8406dude, tons of actors work together and don't like each other, ESPECIALLY kids

[@aveng7fld]

Man this guy still has that aura about him. Can’t carry yourself much better than this in this day and age and he still a hero to me even whenever I was watching as a kid every Saturday morning. Completely understand where he’s coming from and he makes sense as always.

[@alhall305]

43 yrs old. Had a bully in high school. We are now best friends and he is the closest thing ive ever had to an actual brother. Weve grown together and kept in touch over the last 25 yrs. People grow. People change. When we are kids, we are all dumb to a certain extent, and just want to be accepted and understood.

[@kenchan9026]

thats awesome. honestly i would like to talk to my bully. and be like hey what were you thinking? but i also heard from people he was always a jerk not just to me but to everyone to a point he actually got beat up by people!

[@clstile]

I love this story ..

[@CMc-v7z]

​@@kenchan9026often they act out based on stuff going on at home. Best not to take it personally, often you won't see them ever again.

[@Elvira-k3r]

I love this.

[@narcodium]

Walks of life my friend, walks of life. George St. Pierre has a humbling story about his highschool bully

[@xjackinthebox]

Mark Paul seems like a good dude. Hats off to him

[@redhotchilifan98]

I appreciate that he brutally honest. Nothing I hate more when people can’t just straight up say I didn’t like someone.

[@RocStarr913]

Well, it’s not like he hated him either, other than for justifiable reasons.

[@musicalwheels]

we already knew this years ago

[@b2bgood870]

He didn't say that. It was an age gap

[@rellman85]

Generally most of us grew up with the cultural idea that you don’t speak ill of the dead; not necessarily approving or disapproving of this dictum, just saying it exists and has shaped our cultural ways of thinking about, and talking about, the departed.

[@TheRmm1976]

Makes total sense. Dustin was younger and played the geek on the show whereas the rest of them were the popular kids. May have been wrong but it's pretty much how things go in RL at that age... the high school analogy is a good one.

[@sooperd00p]

Well I also think that Dustin was far more of a degenerate person than the rest of them.

[@BradyKaynee]

It was Dustin's mother that forced him into acting. My high school math teacher was also Dustin's math teacher. My teacher told me that it was Dustin's mother that made him drop out of high school to get into acting.

[@dropkickirish4449]

@b14ker14Your reply is, hands down, the most cringe inducing thing I have ever read in the comments. 😖

[@Becky_Honkington]

Also thought the same lol. Seniors and juniors would never be hanging with underclass​@@dropkickirish4449

[@hugh2hoob668]

3 years isn't that old I kinda believe Dustin in some ways

[@gc3k]

Respect to Mario Lopez for visiting Dustin on his last days

[@dannybursace9151]

Yes!

[@benignobrionesiii]

💯

[@timobrien8809]

I heard he & Dustin had become pretty close friends & were really close to getting Dustin to @ least do a guest appearance on the reboot before Dustin died. It would have been so awesome to see a famous, popular Screech return as a astronaut, professor.

[@design1of470]

Look into Mario Lopez's allegations before you pat him on the back for anything.

[@ReanuKeaves1]

@@design1of470If you’re talking about the grape, it was denied before it went to court due to lack of evidence.

[@tonythedonluciano]

Mark seems like he's grown to be a decent human being who isn't caught up in all the hollyweird crap. Kudos, bro! 🤘

[@kathykb8123]

Unless you call him Mark and not Mark Paul.

[@BillCosbyTouchedMyDoodle]

I remember the episode of SBTB from 1991 where Screech made fake IDs for himself, Zack and Slater. Zack’s year of birth said 1937, according to his outburst at Screech, “You idiot, no one’s going to believe I’m 54 years old!” Now, MPG is 50. Crazy how time flies.

[@mr.perksy]

Wow, I remember that episode too. Crazy how now he is that age

[@BillCosbyTouchedMyDoodle]

@@mr.perksy Indeed. I wonder if that scene will be trending on social media by March 1, 2028 when MPG turns 54.

[@mr.perksy]

@@BillCosbyTouchedMyDoodle it probably will. I could see that. I always thought back in the day they cut the college years off too soon. We got a half season. Biggest mistake was putting the show on in prime time. Should have moved back to either Saturday morning or maybe a weekend evening.

[@BillCosbyTouchedMyDoodle]

@@mr.perksy sometime after the final episode, I read in one of those teeny bopper magazines that production of The College Years was on hiatus due to MPG contracting chicken pox. Looking back, I was too young and naive to understand that that article was BS. On a side note, it’s apparent that the theme song intro was a blatant rip-off of “Beverly Hills, 90210” (everything from the guitar riff to the cast members posing and looking into the camera at their fans), which I didn’t notice until 25 years after The College Years’ demise, when I finally binge watched 90210 [beginning on the day Luke Perry died], as the media coverage of his stint on that show prompted me to see what the fuss was about.

[@iamdevilboy5976]

That episode was one of my favorites

[@reneantoniorodriguez1980]

Much respect for Mark for being honest.

[@firebird_spleen4190]

He’s lying

[@MichaelGarcia-cg9on]

I like that idea, "I swim from one side to the other and I've already forgotten the issue." I wish more of the world was laid back like that.

[@ushireborn]

we need more Pisces, yo

[@andrewcramer9200]

And yet, he also says he's too fragile for social media. Kinda contradictory 🤪

[@MichaelGarcia-cg9on]

@@andrewcramer9200 And somehow, you found the need to reply to my comment.

[@Roadrunner-g3e]

I'm 41 i grown up watching Zack on save by bell 🔔 and screech it made my child hood awesome

[@marcussmith4913]

Ya I always laughed at saved by the bell... but I know what you mean that era of life was just better. I miss being that excited for anything Saturday morning cartoons or shows.

[@JMara2000]

I'll say this - I typically had friends slightly older than I was. Two of my best friends were only one and a half'ish years older. It's not that they wanted to stop talking to me, but there seemed to be this divide that happened right around when I was 14/15. It was depressing because I felt like I lost them. They wanted to do things that I found boring and talk about things that I wasn't interested in. Then, as I got to 16/17, we started to have more in common again. So, I agree with MPG here - 3 years isn't much, but between 13/14 and 16/17, it is light years' difference.

[@emmanuelmontperous3537]

Well said honest and straightforward

[@underwaterlevelz1947]

THe impression Im getting is that MPG did not like Dustin, and I don't blame him. Dustin was a really sleazy guy in real life.

[@btrainbraydeboisseranc7570]

Dead man on Campus is an underrated CLASSIC IMO🍿🤣

[@DoobieKeebler28]

"I can feel my heartbeat through my penis!" "Get that out of your pants!"

[@underwaterlevelz1947]

I think its the greatest "college comedy" of all time. I recently watched the film with a similar premise The Curve, it was good but not as memorable

[@leadlacedanarchy9341]

It's the only movie that got Bill Gates is the enemy spot on.

[@forrestbear]

“Some people eat bugs!” 😂

[@DoobieKeebler28]

@@forrestbear my intestines are over 2 miles long

[@dcsportsmark4996]

I’m glad he was honest about it

[@Geraldo-ro9rc]

he ditched Dustin

[@JustMe-fo4ev]

@@Geraldo-ro9rc so?

[@dmoney668]

RIP Dustin. I feel so bad for him. Well done Mark. Dynamics would always be like that when you got an older group of kids and a younger dude It's just like that You're going to get picked on and it's good to see Mark come back and give him some props but it's not anyone's fault

[@housinauthority5258]

Hmmm, imagining I was 16 and in Mark's shoes - I think I would be hanging out with Tiffany and Elizabeth over Dustin too!

[@KrisBryant99]

The real issue was that they just didn't like Dustin so they excluded him.

[@docsavage8640]

@KrisBryant99 because he was a creepy douchebag

[@RocStarr913]

⁠@@KrisBryant99Gosselaar just said they never really hated him, other than for obviously justifiable reasons.

[@Picosto]

Yeah Zack had the quintessential popular high school teenager look , which miffed me when he had to pretend to like a fat girl in one of the episodes

[@KrisBryant99]

@RocStarr913 Dustin was with Mark Paul since Miss Bliss so I doubt it was an age thing. Him and some of the others probably just didn't care for Dustin. And judging from his poor behavior over the years, who can blame them?

[@Tware8100]

If I had Mark Paul Gosselaar phone number. It would be saved as ZACK. in my contacts.

[@joemac999]

That's because that's all he'll ever be known for.

[@KrisBryant99]

Same here 😅

[@Terminal.Rainbows]

This is so weird - like y'all wouldn't respect him as the person he is now because of a role he played as a teenager lol

[@KrisBryant99]

@Terminal.Rainbows it's a joke and frankly who wouldn't call him that on the low? It's not like we would be doing it directly to his face LOL

[@ryanstark714]

I would go with Preppy

[@dankim23]

I like the transparency of MPG. I think we build up this image in our heads they are all friends because we grow up with a show.

[@KrisBryant99]

I barely saw Tiffani, Lark and Berkeley speak of each other so it makes sense what Mark is saying.

[@RocStarr913]

It does speak to their great chemistry as actors though. Gosselaar and Diamond particularly had great chemistry together onscreen.

[@leoandre7542]

Zack Morris Screech will Always be your Sidekick

[@Dan-di9jd]

It's ironic they had an episode where Screech thought he would die and wanted Zack to come with him to heaven.

[@mickymickymike4105]

It’s a job. Just because you work with someone doesn’t mean you have to be personal with them. Just be friendly, do your job, and go home to your real life. Work is what you do to supplement your life.

[@rareview362]

Lame

[@JustMe-fo4ev]

@@rareview362 yes you are but it's ok

[@RocStarr913]

When you are young, it’s not the easiest thing to understand. Child and teen actors have to grasp pretty adult things very quickly.

[@Steveman27]

Do you think people who you work with not be part of your real or personal life?

[@mickymickymike4105]

@@Steveman27 Absolutely. I understand the game 100%. At work I set boundaries. I, in a subtle way, show my coworkers that I am there for business and nothing else. Soon as they talk about personal stuff, I either change the subject or walk away to get back to work. At work I am friendly and make a pleasant work environment, but no one at my job knows anything about me other than that I’m all about the company. The reason for this is because people never mature past high-school. They get into their little cliques, talk about mundane things and gossip. They even tell on you. Companies have become woke and anything you say can get you terminated. I see people hook up with eachother on the job and it is always bad lol. So, yes, I do not look at work as my real life, it is just part of it. It is what I do to make a living because we all must make a living. But, no, I do not consider anyone there a friend. We are all gladiators playing the elimination game. Let the best one win and let the games begin.

[@chriswylie253]

Dustin had a subtle, natural comedic timing and ability in the first seasons. Producers encouraged embarrassing, buffoonish behavior from Dustin and wrote his character in such a way that it ruined his career. All other actors including Mark Paul were allowed to grow as actors and prepare for future work.

[@chriswylie253]

@@KrisBryant99 Zack was a HORRIBLE character with very few redeeming qualities. He treated Screech like shit, once forcing him to go into the girls locker room to record them, he bet and lost Screeches dog in a poker game, and on his own went into the girls locker room with a VIDEO camera(girl wrestler episode) and even broke and entered a private residence to put recording equipment in a girls bedroom. He pimped Lisa out and sold her lingerie as well as promised kisses and gropes to male students without her permission. He used a teen mental health help line to get girls. He manipulated his parents, his friends, his school and was a sociopathic Narcissist. Zack was NEVER a bad character? Being a handsome blond white boy had weight in the 80s. But it hasn't held up. Any teen girl watching today would find Zack totally undesirable and Slater the only Male heartthrob.

[@chriswylie253]

@@KrisBryant99 He does it to his friends. His parents and teachers. Zack stole the girls swim teams team photos and created a sexy pinup calendar with the underage teen girls in their swimsuits for profit without their permission. At graduation he took his friends money for school rings and went to a scumbag criminal to buy fake rings that turned green so he could steal his friends money. He put recording devices in the girls locker room and private bedrooms to record the teen girls. He gambled away Screeches dog in a poker game. He pimped his friend Lisa, stole her underwear and lingerie and sold it in the halls of school as she was horrified and embarrassed. He used a teen line to pick up emotionally troubled teen girls. You wished you could be like that in high school?

[@chriswylie253]

@@KrisBryant99I would almost guarantee you're over 40. I am too so I feel you, but no one under 40 finds Zack appealing. He is the 80s teen fantasy, white privilege, popular asshole seniors who treat the other students like shit. We see it in in 16 candles, Can't Buy me Love, Lucas, and any other teen movies and shows. It WAS the teen fantasy. But ask teens today to watch SBTB and they'll find Zack the least likeable character and Slater the heart throb of the show. As far as Lisa, she slipped through the cracks because she was black. She was never allowed to have a boyfriend, despite one episode with Zack, even though she was dating Mark Paul offscreen during the show. Have a gorgeous, popular teen girl who NEVER dates and she becomes irrelevant, left to shop and look pretty. This was a show from a different time, and I do have nostalgia for Zack and the whole thing. But it doesn't hold up. This is why the College years didn't work. By the mid 90s, the audience recognized Zack as the unlikeable douchebag he was. His pranks were not cute mischief like Dennis the Menace, he was truly a miserable character. If you really wanted to be like him and find him likeable, it says something about you.

[@KrisBryant99]

@@chriswylie253 oh I see what you mean now after watching some clips of Zack 😆

[@suicidality2744]

In real life Mark Paul wasn't a blonde white boy. He was actually part chink through is mother and the blonde hair was color job.

[@fightnwoids2514]

thanks for EVERYTHING Mark! yur the MAN! ....prep'y!

[@fightnwoids2514]

im really fascinated by these clips... Saved by the bell was such a huge part of my childhood!

[@LouieArmstrong1244]

Screech in a way was like a little brother to the cast! And i know the differences that can come about it! Ive had older brothers and sisters! Screech had a powerful Role on that show! It's pretty inspirational not easy to play that character especially how he sounded when he spoke on saved by the bell that seems he really put him self out there in a interesting Comedic way and seems a very hard working manner of being the class clown! The whole cast did a amazing Job on that show!

[@KrisBryant99]

Screech was meant to be a foil to other characters shallow ways and that's why he came across as awkward. He was never awkward but just the opposite of them.

[@Mark-jn3wo]

@@KrisBryant99 the show unfortunately made him awkward though. The way he talked and acted. The way that the only girl he could get was a nerd as well

[@evanflowforever6615]

Agree with Zack Morris. Im about done with SOCIOPATH MEDIA, too.

[@cliffordfernandez3524]

The media isn’t there to inform it’s there to inflame people Start problems Spread rumors

[@alexandermitchell1102]

I see what you did there. Clever.

[@timobrien8809]

Nice that he's being honest & setting things straight !!

[@KrisBryant99]

He's not being honest because he literally said in a panel that he wasn't nice to Dustin and if it was an age thing don't you think Dustin wouldn't had said anything because most kids understand the whole age thing. I don't think a 12 year old will pout about hanging with a 21 year old unless there was more to the story.

[@JustMe-fo4ev]

@@KrisBryant99 literally who cares?

[@KrisBryant99]

@JustMe-fo4ev um who are you? 😆

[@JustMe-fo4ev]

@@KrisBryant99 Someone with more of a life than you, apparently.

[@hugh2hoob668]

Nostalgia makes us forget most of our old acquaintances were never really our pals

[@jamescarter3196]

that is such pathetic meaningless sad-sack crap, it's frigging ridiculous that you'd bother saying it

[@vespasianflavius2766]

Exactly the way I see it is if I was meant to still be talking to a person I still would be

[@pluto545]

The glory of the past that might not have existed.

[@christopherhazell420]

Wow! It was 30 years ago, around this time, I recall watching the SBTB: Wedding In Vegas TV movie.

[@zaidaorozco4344]

Zach looks great! One of my all time favorite shows saved by the bell wow. God bless you ❤

[@birdierose]

I wish they would have included him more when he was 13 🥺 I'm sure he looked up to them and just wanted to be included.

[@randyjones501]

Yeah but u don't think about that when you're young. They were only 16 jus kids themselves.

[@sdfdf46]

I definitely believe there’s more to the story than just “we were 3 years older”.

[@Osvie01-uc8go]

He has a point. Dustin was still only 15 when the show ended, everyone else was entering adulthood so they had a different mindset.

[@lostangeleschronicles]

I used to deliver Amazon to his house a bunch. Then two weeks later Screech dies. Life is so weird.

[@andrewcramer9200]

Comment unclear. I assume you were delivering items to MPG that he used to kill Screech.

[@anaximander66]

I have always liked Mark but after his cameo on "Don't Trust the B..." where he was able to make fun of himself, and he was genuinely hilarious, he won my respect too.

[@tonyruggiero4168]

Love this interview!

[@xtraspecialj]

Lol, "I'm a Pisces"... Oh come on dude. Yeah, because somehow the position of Stars hundreds of thousands of light years away when you were born somehow influences your personality the rest of your life... Makes complete sense!

[@lomiles83]

As soon as he said he's a Pisces, i gained a different perspective 😅😂

[@brandondavenport6147]

Mark is a cool actor

[@Mr.paint123]

He’s ok

[@umberto488]

He is an actor?

[@anthonycordaro93]

This is my first time watching your show. Really enjoyed your interviewing style and the interview. Thanks for uploading.

[@RS-qo1rb]

My man he knows. Love this man. ❤

[@texasgent4694]

This is totally relatable, my older brother and I are 4 years apart and we didn't hang out alot growing up because of our age difference, and it kinda bothered me as a kid but once I grew up looking back I understood that it wasn't personal we were just at different points/stages in our lives

[@leadlacedanarchy9341]

If you watch that Lifetime movie about Saved by the Bell based on Dustin's book it sounds like they were bitter enemies from Dustin's side of things. I think a lot of it was that Diamond felt left out of things because of the age gap and from the sounds of it really didn't have a lot of friends his own age to hang around with. But at least it sounds like they were cool at the end.

[@RocStarr913]

Diamond definitely had a lot of personal issues and I’m sure being on a series like that with people older, yet still equally immature and often getting more attention than you may not have helped that.

[@badboy-gn8fu]

i remember watching saved by the bell back in the day when i was a kid. those were good times and seeing Mark in this video brought back some good memories.

[@joejacobs3537]

Mark Paul has always acted like a professional...

[@KrisBryant99]

It's called acting........

[@BryantThompson-w1j]

Hey just because they weren't close doesn't that's ok what they made with that show will be apart of history itself

[@JustMe-fo4ev]

@@KrisBryant99 you're trying too hard.

[@landrecce]

This made me feel a lot better about the situation with Dustin. It still sucks he wasn't invited to the reunion however.

[@Dan-di9jd]

Given Dustin was so young, it could have been that he saw things differently that he couldn't relate to his others and perhaps he thought they were all doing something different or talking about him. I don't think there was a feud but I do suspect Dustin was probably the outsider with the rest of the gang.

[@RocStarr913]

I could relate to how he must have been feeling. Plus, his cast mates were all young and likely were immature and naturally let their fame go a little to their heads.

[@keithfavara4943]

Its interesting hearing him say this because for a while growing up i had an older kid that i would hang out with a bit. He lived across the street and down a house or two. But i think back to the times when he gave me a ride to the Jr. High and when he already had his license and was at the Sr. High. It didn't happen all the time, but it happened enough for me to remember it and he had his older friends in the car too. Just like he said in this interview age gaps at that age are really a divider so at the time i was enjoying getting a ride and hanging out with older kids but for a while now i have thought of just how nice that was on my friend's part that he did that he did that for me. Thanks Hugh Asmus(might have the spelling wrong)from Hackettstown NJ if you are out there somewhere.

[@MediaFeverPitch]

I love it when guys talk about their zodiac sign since guys are not supposed to be into it. So I'm not the only one. I actually like him more now that I know he's a Pisces and he's honest that what people say affects him.

[@danielleelizaharpz]

I really appreciate his honesty ❤

[@LookOutside...]

Even rich people sometimes forget to take the stickers off of their hats

[@ceeleewal1257]

Most people I know (myself included) and people I've met purposely leave them on. We see it as kind of an exclamation point. Been doing it since I was a kid.

[@TylerMogan]

The dumbest fashion trend yet

[@Possiblechange]

if you take the sticker off, it leaves an unremovable square from the adhesive..

[@Viper-g6g]

Who takes it off and why? It looks better that way.

[@IDiggPattyMayonnaise]

​@@PossiblechangeYeah because the makers don't want you to take the sticker off. That's why the adhesive unremovable

[@Adrian-X1]

One of my favorite shows growing up! Always was a fan of Zack Morris👍🏾

[@mr.woowoo8826]

Sorry for the loss of your brother. Mine passed when we were little.

[@jeromychavez6121]

I'm sorry to hear that man. I'm always trying to stay in touch with my older and younger brother. All I can do is be here when or if they need me.

[@hockeydiva98]

Mark hasn’t aged at all he still looks like he’s in his early 40s

[@bobabooey4537]

He looks older to me from the tv show days.

[@hockeydiva98]

@ He does look older with the facial hair yes, but when he gets rid of it he looks like his in his 40s

[@fedoff2190]

No grown man should say what star sign they are.

[@joemaria6574]

Worked with SBTB 2 years. Those kids partied a lot.

[@docsavage8640]

Great blowjobs

[@RocStarr913]

It must have been challenging to be that famous at such a young age.

[@romans52345-cy3tq]

Yeah but they were all so well aware of the fact that if they got into some sort of trouble back then they were old enough and smart enough to know that somebody will be there to bail them out

[@Steveman27]

Who were you in the show, and what episodes were you in? Also, did all of them party a lot?

[@andrewcramer9200]

​@Steveman27 where did they say they acted? You do know there are camera operators, propmasters, grips, lighting techs, producers, directors, writers, etc?

[@woodersonandmelbatoast6043]

Age is weird like that. Like 23 to 26 doesn’t really seem that big of a deal. But 13 to 16 is like across the globe distance. I was 15 when I started talking to my high school gf who was 14. I turned 16 before she turned 15 and so for those few months I was extremely self conscious 😂

[@kylem1112]

Yeah one of my first girlfriends was 14 and i was 16. I don't recall anyone thinking it was weird though. cuz she hung out with the older kids any way and was pretty mature for her age.

[@christianjames92]

The reason why it’s weird at those ages is because you’re seperated by grades and you’re cliqued up. You’re also going through different stages of puberty. In my high-school we literally didn’t even interact with grades below us. That’s just how our classes and times were set up.

[@makeamericaamericaagain2015]

@@woodersonandmelbatoast6043 me too especially when I was 18 and she was 17 😬

[@thefirstdark]

*I get* MPG is just someone who doesn't want the blame landing on him, tbh. I get the feeling he just doesn't want to revisit the past. Especially if he knows that he was truly in the wrong for “this or that,” with Dustin. It's the biggest reason why i no longer have fond feelings for that show-even though i grew up with it. Child stars suffered a lot. And not just from the adults (in the business) around them; but also from their own parents (some who were pushing them into the business, whether they actually wanted to be involved or not) and family members. Imagine what this kid Dustin suffered, especially considering he likely had no real friends to turn to, yet the other actors could all turn to each other to commiserate?! Regardless of them being teenagers at the time? We all as adults KNOW just how impressionable kids are during their teenage years. EVERYTHING big or small would've meant something, and/or affected Dustin in “some kind of way,” eh? And knowing that; i can understand why things that Mark-Paul or any of the others involved with him *didn't* see as such a big deal WERE a big deal to Dustin! They'd just already moved past that stage in their progression to the adult years; Dustin had not. At least Mario reached out to him towards the end; that was kind of him and reflects deeply to his character. However? To me, especially in this interview? Mark-Paul comes off as someone who just wants to forget anything good or bad about those days (especially bad); and someone who refuses to hold himself accountable for what he was actually a part in, simply because he himself has left that part of his life behind. But him, wanting to move on? That does NOT make him **ANY LESS ACCOUNTABLE** for what he may have played a part in, in the past days of them filming the show. (And his “being a Pisces” doesn't excuse him from a damn thing, nor do any other of his good or bad personality traits. A piss-poor way of making light of his lack of concern to another human being's pain or issues, especially if his own behavior did play some part to that person's responding behaviour, etc. etcetera. Trying to say that “being a Pisces makes him flightly” as justification for why he feels none of this matters is a shitty thing to do, and doesn't excuse him from ANY part he did play in the scheme of things!) FRIGG MPG. He's always come off to me as a self-important, disingenuous BORING hack of an actor. Doesn't mean i hate him or wish him bad. It just means that I'm a Scorpio 🦂...which means that i REALLY don't care about him or his BS lies and fake answers, in regard to the troubles & sad death of someone he DID KNOW (and knew TOO LONG, *not* to KNOW)! #JustSaying

[@rlouie05]

Dustin & Dennis Haskins were supposedly close. A shame how Diamond couldn’t find closure or true friends from his coworkers.

[@KrisBryant99]

Mark Paul always seemed stuck up so what can you do? 😆 🤣 😂

[@MatticusFinch1820]

They were such great friends on the show as their characters that I always wished they had been that close in real life. They seemed like they would have been cool friends.

[@a-m3248]

@@KrisBryant99I don’t think that’s true. Zack has referred to Screech as his best friend multiple times in the show.

[@jesusgarcia-hk5jx]

Zack was the worst lol

[@RocStarr913]

I think they had great chemistry together on the series.

[@user-np3zc1ps9w]

Dustin was saying secret things about this man.

[@JM-bk2cw]

They worked with each other since they were 12, became famous,made some money together, and they never developed a relationship where they were close? You could tell MPG and the cast were a pos to Dustin.

[@rlouie05]

The stooge character that Dustin played was intentionally to be crapped upon. It’s usually for wannabes either no aspirations for further Hollywood work. Only Steve Urkel managed to use the stooge character & take over an entire show.

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

Regular people are delusional, they think if you act or rap together you must be friends. That's all a job, I worked a job for 18 years and wasn't friends with everyone there, so why would anyone assume these kids were friends?

[@KrisBryant99]

Hall & Oates hated each other or weren't close but made great music and a while back it was news that Hall sued Oates for cheating him out of money so you're definitely right 😅

[@pluto545]

They’re so many romantic movies that are cherished by their mere mention, or romantic leads in a TV show…. Absolutely couldn’t be in the same room or atmosphere with each other. You have people doing great work.

[@tommyfu9271]

exactly. and what he said about the age difference as teenagers makes perfect sense.

[@Steveman27]

Are you yourself delusional?

[@Asiacbrown80]

I can see that. As a kids, many assumed they're friends during those years. The interviews, promos, etc for the show didn't help. Some learn later that those childhood assumption or what pit out there isnt. I take it as it's a learning curve for some people. Sometimes they don't know or stop to think about it until someone makes them see it.

[@JennaKelly-x8p]

He seems like he has a good head on his shoulders, appreciate the transparency and honesty!

[@danakscully64]

I've been employed since 2002, which is only 22 years, and I'm not in touch or friends with a vast majority of the 1000s of people I've worked with. I don't know why people expected MP and Dustin to be BFFs after 34+ years. Not only that, I unfriended a lot of people during political seasons, over the years, because of blatant racism and horrible comment.

[@samhain81]

I know what he means, in that 3 years can feel like an entire game generational gap to some. I mean, even my brother didn't want to hang out with me, and he was only two years older than me. Sometimes that disconnect can extent to even blood sometimes.

[@STEADFAST__and__LOYAL__M1059]

Like his honesty about comments affecting him

[@holderbee7811]

Well said

[@Wheels8504]

Honest, which should be respected and sounds very reasonable.

[@JanitorIsBack]

at one point he says he is a Pisces and it doesn't bother him then says he is fragile when reading comments

[@RocStarr913]

I think what he is trying to say is he tends to not hold grudges and gives people the benefit of the doubt, that he would rather build bridges with people.

[@esterdrass4964]

Mark seems very well grounded for a child star. Usually, they grow up with terrible insecurities and a host of issues. I understand exactly what he means about a three-year age gap when you are teenagers. 3 years is a huge difference at that particular time in your life. As for Dustin, I had seen him show up here and there on different reality tv shows and he came across as a person that went out of his way to upset other people around him. I wasn't sure if it was for tv or it was his true personality. Or was he resentful and lashing out on others for having to spend his childhood the way he did? Sort of like Gary Coleman, a fine young actor but seemed quite bitter later on. Odd that they both ended up passing so young. Well, they left a legacy, and I am glad Mark is doing well.

[@stinkyham9050]

When I was 25 years old I dated a 19 year old. We've been married 18 years now. 😂. I guess I never could find someone my own age.

[@KrisBryant99]

It all comes down to the person but in my Mark's case Dustin wasn't all that young to hang with the group. He makes it seem like Dustin was 8.

[@remhk6672]

​@KrisBryant99 he was just too nerdy for them. If dustin was similar to Mark in looks and personality but 3 years younger, they would've accepted him.

[@KrisBryant99]

@@remhk6672 well you do make a good point lol

[@Frankybroadcast]

Dude actually said what sign he is. Hahahaha

[@mm369]

I bet it was hard for Dustin to fit in when the rest of the cast was older and "popular" in real life as well as on screen. I hope that time wasn't miserable for him, and they were at least nice to him. I didn't read his book but the parts I heard about seemed fabricated. I think Dustin even admitted that before his death.

[@p-slayer]

It was California...they were not nice to him lol

[@jonwebster6172]

Screech was a GREAT child character actor...his faces...at 59 I still watch it if I happen to catch it on Cable...I was 17 when it 1st aired...

[@bhillis99]

All you have to do is watch episode where Zach and slater and Lisa showed back in the new class, where they was gonna tear down bayside. Should have been a big screech and Zach moment. He basically ignores him.

[@KrisBryant99]

What I loved about the New Class is how cohesive it was despite the constant cast changes but by year 3 they avoided repeating the same mistakes of the Old Class by being all over the place.

[@RocStarr913]

I’m sure Gosselaar didn’t want to be on that episode during that time. It was basically a stunt by the producers to boost the ratings of the series.

[@Kellz58]

My oldest watched this show daily, and let's face it Dustin was playing the geek part. Which he seemed to use against the cast too, he thrived in the drama he created. Right down to bragging about his adult film career. At least Mark was honest, in the end they were kids and acting as such. Live and learn, then own it all.

[@RocStarr913]

Dustin Diamond definitely had personal issues and I’m sure the dynamic of working on that series didn’t help that.

[@henrydycha9379]

Shows how much more talented Dustin was never knew three years younger og of the show

[@darrylsh]

You're a good man. I've met some actors on public at convenience stores and they just want to be left alone. A comment like "you're cool" gets a pass but i"m 6'6" and don't get negative rebuttle.

[@LordFleaBottom]

It was the Steel City Comic-Con in Pittsburgh around early December 2019 is the last time MPG saw Dustin Diamond.

[@alexandermitchell1102]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[@prestonjacobs8749]

Love the honesty. It's facts. When I was 18 I wasn't really hanging out with 15 year Olds.

[@atarileaf]

Mr do is one of my favorite arcade games

[@evitaevita98]

In homeschooling all kids play together, no matter what the ages are. It's so beautiful to see.

[@hugh_jasso]

That's a lie.

[@natethegreat3602]

Yeah he should have said look Dustin and me were 2 different people and we didn't hang out so we weren't close

[@hancowman7622]

It's clear they were not nice to Dustin. Mark is so aloof and out of touch that it's easy to tell what kind of person he was/is in RL. Zach Morris is trash

[@obsidian3406]

@@hancowman7622you’re trash and lack empathy

[@waltercook9517]

I didn’t not realize how great of a actor Mark-Paul is until I saw him in the Passage. He blow me away I realized he is one of the most underrated actors.

[@RocStarr913]

He’s had fairly steady work, but he’s languished in broadcast network television. It’s why many actors really don’t like doing television. Actors tend to plateau there.

[@snangoboman2111]

Zach Morris's eye make-up here was certainly a choice.

[@thegodofpez]

As a true, diehard fan growing up of Saved By The Bell, Dustin Diamond’s book “Behind The Bell” is fascinating. Though embellished, it’s an excellent read and shines light on the behind the scenes process. Highly recommended if you’re a fan.

[@dr.loomis4221]

I HATE when people bring up astrology to explain their attitudes towards things.

[@elconquistador364]

as a sagittarius i couldnt agree more

[@dr.loomis4221]

@@elconquistador364 Now you've made me emotional...That's the cancer in me I guess

[@feliciasteward777]

When I hear people use astrology I feel people use their as a defense mechanism I guess criticism and not to take any kind of accountability for how the way they treat people and I feel like that's what Paul is doing here in this interview Paul and the rest of them know they treated him like crap despite what he has done he still didn't deserve to be treated the way he was treated I feel like Paul is just making excuses here and not taking any kind of accountability for how the way he treated the guy

[@BishopWalters12]

@@elconquistador364 LOL

[@joelkopp5869]

Mark needs to listen to that song "Man in the Mirror". We don't have to fall back on that kind of excuse... That said I love Zack and Zack Attack was criminally underrated🎸🎤🎧

[@fletchbundy]

I love him being honest. He was far younger than them and they were teenagers & dating costar. It doesn't mean they were cruel to him in any way. What Dustin did later was cruel & I don't blame anyone for not being close but none of them has ever said bad about him.

[@Mark-jn3wo]

I don’t think Dustin was cruel. If the book indeed was true, it was his experience

[@fletchbundy]

@@Mark-jn3wo he later admitted it wasn't and tried to claim being misquoted and other nonsense. Made himself the victim. And he was part of that crappy lifetime film.

[@Mark-jn3wo]

@@fletchbundy , I think he only said it wasn’t true because the other cast members came out and said it wasn’t true and everyone believed them, as if for some reason people don’t think wouldn’t lie. Yea, if someone wrote a book and cast me in a negative light, I would probably say it wasn’t true either, even if it was. I guarantee that 85 % of what was in that book was true, the other cast members just didn’t want to admit it

[@jime6688]

To his point, he’s right for the majority of people, but, you could’ve tried to make an effort as I did. I had friends my age and friends 3 and 4 years younger when in high school. It CAN be done and I think him and the rest could’ve made more effort.

[@obsidian3406]

🙄

[@dereks7745]

What I like most about what Mark said was that he won't let his kids have phones until 8th or 9th grade. Good for him.

[@RocStarr913]

Ironic considering that Gosselaar’s character had a cell phone.

[@dhorus28]

So my older sons mom dated Dustin when we where just friends . She said he was arrogant and disrespectful. There's a reality show he did and you can get a taste of what she was talking about.

[@underwaterlevelz1947]

Dustin was a slimeball in real life, there's no shortage of stories of the gross things he did.

[@cdgates1]

That reality show u is talking about was Celebrity fit club

[@dhorus28]

@@cdgates1 Yes i was to lazy to google it lol. But yes i first thought he was acting like that for content but learned later thats pretty much how he was.

[@RocStarr913]

@@underwaterlevelz1947Slimeballs are made, not born.

[@Jenniferlynn6504]

I love Mark-Paul. 90s celebrity crush. ❤ He seems like such a genuine guy