Former baby star Drake Bell is pulling again the curtain on the downsides of Hollywood.

Throughout his look on a July episode of “The Unplanned Podcast,” the “Drake & Josh” alum revealed that regardless of his present’s enduring recognition, he noticed little or no of its earnings—and nonetheless would not.

Drake Bell took it even additional, slamming the executives at Nickelodeon for profiting off his onerous work whereas he struggles to pay for requirements, together with his hire.

Earlier than his hit present “Drake & Josh,” Bell appeared on the favored Nickelodeon sequence “The Amanda Present,” which famously starred Amanda Bynes.

Based on him, nevertheless, his years with the community weren’t almost as profitable as followers would possibly assume.

“That’s the notion of the world, it’s all the time been this manner,” Bell stated. “It is like, you already know, ‘Oh, you made a Folgers Espresso business. You need to reside in a mansion in Hollywood. Like, I noticed you on TV. You are wealthy.’”

Bell went on to say that the notion many have of kid stars is “removed from the case.” He added, “And particularly, which is the bummer for many of us on Nickelodeon, we do not get residuals for our reveals.”

For context, residuals are further funds made to creatives within the leisure business at any time when a TV present is reused—similar to in reruns or on streaming platforms—past its preliminary broadcast.

In contrast to another performers from fashionable tv reveals of the previous, Bell and his co-stars do not obtain residuals each time their present is aired or streamed.

Bell defined that he wished “Drake & Josh” to enter syndication, which is the method of promoting broadcasting rights of a program to a number of tv stations, permitting them to air the present on their channels, no matter whether or not they’re affiliated with the unique community.

“You wanna get to 100 episodes so as to get to syndication, and then you definitely wanna get into syndication as a result of then you definitely get your residual cash, that is the place you make your cash,” he stated earlier than highlighting the stark distinction between his contract and people of different TV stars.

“For instance, the ‘Pals’ forged on the peak was making 1,000,000 {dollars} an episode,” he defined. “You make 13 episodes that yr, you make $13,000,000. You make 20 episodes that yr, you make $20,000,000, proper?”

“However proper now, every forged member of ‘Pals’ simply in syndication alone is making over $20,000,000 a yr, and so they’re not filming a present each week. They are not going to work, however they’re taking part in their present and so they’re utilizing their likeness and so they’re doing all this, in order that they receives a commission for it. And so they’re making over $20,000,000 in a yr simply because different networks are shopping for the rights for syndication,” he acknowledged.

Because the dialog continued, Bell blasted “a whole lot of evil, corrupt folks” within the business, including, “There isn’t any different reply.”

And to make issues worse, Bell shared that he sees episodes of “Drake & Josh” airing on tv and streaming on Netflix, but he receives no compensation from the reruns.

“There are three channels doing ‘Drake & Josh’ marathons,” he continued. “Netflix simply purchased it, it is high 10 on Netflix, and I gotta work out tips on how to pay my hire this month.”

“And a few fats cat with a cigar is simply sitting up on the high of Viacom simply [laughing]. What do you name it? It is similar to getting excessive on baby labor,” Bell added.

That wasn’t all Bell needed to say about his unlucky contract with Nickelodeon, although. He additionally slammed the community for seemingly “throw[ing] us to the wolves.”