Mar. 16, 2025
Hug me, brotha!ADrake & Joshrevival starringDrake BellandJosh Peckis officially in the works, PEOPLE has confirmed.Bell, 32, teased the revival while walking the red carpet at theiHeartRadio Music Awardsin L.A. on Thursday, revealing that the duo is currently in talks with several networks about a new show.“We’re working on something,” Bell told PEOPLE. “I’m excited. I think we have a great idea.”Drake Bell.Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesDrake & Joshoriginally aired on Nickelodeon from 2004-07.
Mar. 16, 2025
Drake Bell.Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
The Daytona Beach Police Departmentannouncedon Facebook Thursday morning that “officers are looking” for Bell.
“He should be traveling in a 2022 grey BMW and his last known location is potentially the area of Mainland High School on 4/12/2023 just before 9 p.m.,” the post read. “He is considered missing and endangered.”
Just hours later, Daytona Beach Police Department Public Information Officer Carrie McCallister confirmed to PEOPLE that the former child star had been located.
Mar. 16, 2025
Drake Bell.Photo: Michael Tran/Getty
After a brief, alarming incident whenDrake Bellwasreported “missing and endangered"on Thursday, only to bedeclared “safe"hours later, a 911 call has surfaced that seemingly sheds more light on the former child actor’s mental state this week.
“I have a possible attempted suicide,” says the officer, who introduced himself as Steve, over crackly audio. “Basically there is a celebrity who had a falling out with this wife … and we got involved because we’ve [been in touch with] the family in California saying that he’s going to get drunk and hang himself, and he’s in a hotel somewhere in Orlando.
Mar. 16, 2025
A 19-year-old girl accusedDrake Bellof sexual assault in a lengthy statement read during his sentencing on Monday.
TheDrake & Joshalum, born Jared Bell, wassentenced to two years probationand 200 hours of community service afterpleading guiltyto attempted endangering children, a fourth-degree felony, and a misdemeanor charge of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. He is also prohibited from contacting the victim.
Bell’s attorney, Ian Friedman, said during the hearing that his client had “accepted responsibility in this case” via his plea.
Mar. 16, 2025
Drake Bell’s wife,Janet Von Schmeling, has filed for divorce one week after Bell was reported missing and endangered in Florida and later found safe.
Von Schmeling is citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to the dissolution of marriage petition filed in Los Angeles County’s Superior Court on Thursday.
Janet Von Schmeling and Drake Bell.Tasia Wells/WireImage
Hejoked about the incidenta day later in a since-deleted post on Twitter writing, “Youleave your phone in the carand don’t answer for the night and this?