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- Time of India
'Drake & Josh' Cast Performs First Reunion in More Than a Decade at Nostalgia Con 2025
Drake & Josh cast reunited for a gathering more than a decade later after the hit Nickelodeon show ended. The combined outing was held during a panel session at Nostalgia Con at the Anaheim Convention Center on June 8, 2025.
The series premiered between 2004 and 2007 and chronicled teen stepbrothers Drake Parker, played by
Drake Bell
, and Josh Nichols, played by
Josh Peck
, as they lived life together in spite of their contrasting personalities.
The two actors were accompanied at the party by other cast members Nancy Sullivan, who played Josh's stepmother and Drake's mother, and Jonathan Goldstein, who played Josh's father and Drake's stepfather on the show.
Bell and Peck have opened up about their contentious past over the years. Bell had previously slammed Peck in 2017 for not inviting him to his wedding to Paige O'Brien. Since then, however, the two have made amends. They talked about their relationship on the March 24 episode of Peck's Good Guys podcast, which he hosts alongside Ben Soffer. It was the first time they had caught up with each other since the launch of the 2024 Quiet on Set documentary.
In the documentary, Bell revealed for the first time that he had been molested by Brian Peck (unrelated to Josh Peck), who had worked with him as a dialogue coach on The Amanda Show. In the podcast, Josh Peck said that he had no idea about the abuse and thought that Bell had distanced himself from him because of dislike. "Until you kind of explained to me what was going on, I was just viewing it through the lens of a 14-year-old brain thinking like, 'He doesn't want much to do with me,'" Peck said.
Seeing the documentary afterward, he added, "so much was revealed" for the first time.
During the Nostalgia Con panel, the cast discussed the show's conception, with them stating that Nickelodeon was seeking a "buddy comedy" format at the time, thus giving birth to Drake & Josh.
