The pair reminisced about working on classic Nickelodeon shows and taking a leaf out of Summers' book at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida
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| From L: Mike O'Malley and Kirk Fogg at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Sept. 13, 2024; Marc Summers. Photo: Jen Juneau Haupt; Getty |
Mike O'Malley and Kirk Fogg are raving about their Nickelodeon "older brother," Marc Summers.
During a panel at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday, Sept. 13, the two former kids' gameshow hosts looked back on their own experiences on Nickelodeon, and gave a hat tip to Summers, 72, who helped define the genre starting with Double Dare in the 1980s and, later, What Would You Do? on the same network.
"Marc Summers was an extremely gracious older brother and really wanted Nick to succeed and really had learned a lot by trial and error, and really was a phenomenal host and helped both of us," said O'Malley, 57, who hosted Get the Picture in 1991 and, later, Nickelodeon Guts from 1992 to 1995.
"He was someone who was doing a lot of live shows, live events - he helped everybody, he’s a real mensch," O'Malley added.
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| From L: Mike O'Malley, Kirk Fogg and Marc Summers hosting their respective Nickelodeon gameshows. Nickelodeon(2); Marc Summers |
Along with Phil Moore (Nick Arcade) and Summer Sanders (Figure It Out), Summers, O'Malley and Fogg, 64, made up a special group of Nickelodeon kids' gameshow hosts that would define the friendly-competition genre for millennials.
Asked by PEOPLE at 90s Con whether the five of them have a group chat going all these years later, Fogg, who hosted Legends of the Hidden Temple from 1993 to 1995, said they don't - but if they did, "Marc would be in charge of it."
"I think all of us feeling a similar way about our experiences with Nickelodeon, and we have great pride," O'Malley added. "We talk to Marc and Phil about this too - about what Nick was. We’re all also at the point in our lives where we’re all reminiscing and looking back at that."
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| Kirk Fogg (center) hosting 'Legends of the Hidden Temple'. Nickelodeon |
"Everybody has each other’s phone numbers. Our kids went to the same high school together," Fogg said of himself and O'Malley. "It seems like we’re kind of old friends."
Fogg also said he's just "grateful" to have been "able to be part of this kind of show" that "perpetually lives on."
"I was a big TV watcher as a kid - I'd watch as much as I possibly could," he said. "I really admire really good hosts. I loved all the gameshows back then, and I have my memories of shows I grew up on. I’m so glad that I have a positive show that I can stand behind for the rest of my life."
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