Mike O’Malley and Kirk Fogg are raving about their Nickelodeon “older brother,” Marc Summers.
Throughout a panel at 90s Con in Daytona Seashore, Florida, on Friday, Sept. 13, the 2 former children’ gameshow hosts appeared again on their very own experiences on Nickelodeon, and gave a hat tip to Summers, 72, who helped outline the style beginning with Double Dare within the Eighties and, later, What Would You Do? on the identical community.
“Marc Summers was a particularly gracious older brother and actually wished Nick to succeed and actually had discovered lots by trial and error, and actually was an outstanding host and helped each of us,” mentioned O’Malley, 57, who hosted Get the Image in 1991 and, later, Nickelodeon Guts from 1992 to 1995.
“He was somebody who was doing plenty of stay exhibits, stay occasions – he helped everyone, he’s an actual mensch,” O’Malley added.
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Together with Phil Moore (Nick Arcade) and Summer Sanders (Figure It Out), Summers, O’Malley and Fogg, 54, made up a particular group of Nickelodeon children’ gameshow hosts that will outline the friendly-competition style for millennials.
Requested by PEOPLE at 90s Con whether or not the 5 of them have a bunch chat going all these years later, Fogg, who hosted Legends of the Hidden Temple from 1993 to 1995, mentioned they do not – but when they did, “Marc could be answerable for it.”
“I believe all of us feeling the same method about our experiences with Nickelodeon, and we’ve got nice pleasure,” O’Malley added. “We discuss to Marc and Phil about this too – about what Nick was. We’re all additionally on the level in our lives the place we’re all reminiscing and searching again at that.”
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“All people has one another’s telephone numbers. Our children went to the identical highschool collectively,” Fogg mentioned of himself and O’Malley. “It looks as if we’re type of outdated buddies.”
Fogg additionally mentioned he is simply “grateful” to have been “in a position to be a part of this type of present” that “perpetually lives on.”
“I used to be an enormous TV watcher as a child – I might watch as a lot as I presumably may,” he mentioned. “I actually admire actually good hosts. I liked all of the gameshows again then, and I’ve my recollections of exhibits I grew up on. I’m so glad that I’ve a optimistic present that I can stand behind for the remainder of my life.”