"Saved by the Bell" New Series connected Peacock: E! News Rewind

The stars of the Saved By the Bell revival are revealing the cameo that ne'er was.

Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña shared connected their podcast Dare We Say that the precocious and large hoops prima Kobe Bryant was owed to movie a cameo for the Peacock bid before he and eight others, including his girl Gianna, died successful a chopper crash January 2020. 

"A chaotic tidbit that I don't deliberation a batch of radical know, or, it's not important astatine each due to the fact that obviously, we are the slightest of value erstwhile it comes to this fable and his daughter's passing," Totah said successful the Sept. 15 episode, "but we were really expected to movie with Kobe 2 days aft helium died."

And portion Totah, who co-hosts Dare We Say with Pascual-Peña and Yasmine Hamady, didn't cognize Bryant personally, she said learning of his decease was a "surreal" experience, adding, "It was a precise weird and insane happening to spell through."

Pascual-Peña said connected the podcast that she remembered being truthful excited to conscionable him, saying, "He was primitively a instrumentality of the first Saved By the Bell and helium was excited to beryllium connected our show, similar the [executive producer] told america that. And it's truly beauteous and eye-opening to spot however 1 idiosyncratic tin alteration and bring joyousness to truthful galore people."

While the Moxie actress said she was saddened by Bryant's sudden passing, she's comforted by the information that he was beloved by truthful many. "Some radical unrecorded their full lives ne'er seeing the afloat interaction they had connected the satellite until they pass," she explained. "Thankfully Kobe was fixed his flowers. That antheral was truthful loved and truthful respected."