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As Irritating as His Moniker, Screech

For years, ever since the first child star had the misfortune to grow up and find life isn’t the same as an adult as it was for a precocious child star, there has been a debate if fame is the right thing for kids or not. The problem is, we only hear of the kids that grow up and take a really bad path, drugs, DUIs, theft, prostitutes, etc. We don’t hear about the kids that go on to lead productive lives out of show business, other than the occasional rumor about Beaver and/or Eddie Haskell getting killed in the war. To say that all the show business kids end up badly probably isn’t a fair assumption.

A fair assessment, though, can probably be made on a recent season of Celebrity Fit Club. While the season ended some time ago, Friday night held a Fit Club Marathon including the season with two separate, very different, one-time child stars, Dustin Diamond, aka Screech of the Saved By the Bell, and Maureen McCormick, aka Marcia, Marcia, Marcia of the The Brady Bunch. Maureen is still just as cute as she was as a young teenage girl, although with a few more pounds on and a few more wrinkles. But hey, that adds character!

Dustin is a different matter altogether. After joining a show about celebrities losing weight by following the methods shown, such as eating healthy and exercising, Dustin proclaimed he was going to do it his own way, eating pizza and beer. Of course, this wasn’t going to work, as if it was, he wouldn’t need the help of Ian and Harvey anyway. But Dustin’s behavior only got worse and worse when this failed to get him the attention he seemed to be “screeching” out for.

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