Did you ever suspect that there was some secret raunchiness going down on the “Saved by the Bell” set? Of course you did. It was obvious to everyone that those kids were nothing but trouble, and merely acting when they played the good teenagers of Bayside High. I think most of us suspected there was a lot of heroin shooting and orgies. Well, that’s what Dustin Diamond (aka Screech) wants us to believe in his new book. Somehow I doubt anyone’s buying it.

The new Us Weekly (on newsstands now) has a sneak peek at Dustin Diamond’s shocking tell-all, Behind the Bell, which claims drug use and sex were rampant on the set of the hit NBC Saturday-morning sitcom Saved By the Bell.

“I could smell a certain ‘smoke,’ wafting from from [sic] the crack” underneath his castmates’ dressing rooms, says Diamond, 32, who played the dork Screech.

He also alleges costar Mark Paul Gosselaar — who played popular Zack Morris — used steroids before production started on 1994′s short-lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

“He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month,” says Diamond, who is not in touch with any of his costars. (Gosselaar, 35, has dismissed his costar’s so-called revelations to Us: “We weren’t in rehab and Mr. Belding wasn’t my crack dealer.” His rep had no comment.)

Diamond — who filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and had his own sex tape released in 2006 — goes on to say his costars hooked up off-camera.

“If Kelly [Tiffani Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez] one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario [Lopez]‘s room,” he tells the new Us Weekly. “Then, if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kisses Zack, then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul’s room.”

[From Us Weekly]

I’m going to have to go with Mark Paul Gosselaar on this one. He seems a lot more reputable than Screech. And as far as I know, Mark Paul hasn’t done as much pr0n. Frankly, he just seems like a genuinely nice, normal guy, whereas Dustin Diamond’s sex tape includes some things most of us have never heard of. I’ll kindly leave it at that. And none of the castmates have fallen victim to the child star curse as far as I can tell. Elizabeth Berkley did “Showgirls” right after “Saved by the Bell,” but that’s about as raunchy as it got. Oh and Mario Lopez is a legendary womanizer. But again, nothing to imply they weren’t normal teenagers. Which probably means they did smoke a little pot and possibly occasionally hook up. Nothing nearly salacious enough to warrant a book.

Here’s Dustin Diamond with Tera Patrick and Nautica Thorn at Tao nightclub in the Venetian Hotel in Vegas in January 2007. Images thanks to WENN.com .

This is brilliant. Dustin Diamond, who played the goofy but uber-smart Screech, is going to sell his story of torrid sex adventures and drug use by fellow cast mates. He is currently penning Behind the Bell which will detail his experience on the teen show Saved by the Bell.

Behind the Bell, which Gotham Books preempted from Objective Entertainment’s Jarred Weisfeld, promises to detail “sexual escapades among cast members, drug use, and hardcore partying,” and for those of us who spent untold hours in our formative years memorizing “I’m So Excited” and the entire back catalog of Zack Attack, this is the greatest book deal in the history of the universe.

[NY Magazine]

Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkeley, and Tiffani Amber-Thiessen all played respectable teenagers going through the toils of teen angst in the wholesome show. Dustin has been promising that his book will be filled with scandal. How much fact will go into the project is up to debate. He will have help to write out the tale. A ghostwriter, Alan Goldsher, is assisting him in his first attempt at literature.

I am not surprised is going to sellout his “friends.“ Everyone has a price tag. Dustin’s just happens to be $14 and a bag of Doritos.

Note by Celebitchy: The last I heard of Diamond was nearly two years ago when the news came out that he was starring in an amateur pr0n tape with two other women. It was widely assumed that he released it himself. Prior to that he was selling t-shirts online in an attempt to save his house from foreclosure. Oh and he was on “Celebrity Fit Club” on VH1 last summer and pretty much pissed everyone off. He now works as a stand up comic.

Dustin Diamond is shown on 1/11/07. Credit: Rachel Worth / WENN

Dustin Diamond, the beleagured Screech of “Saved by the Bell,” got an hilarious endorsement deal for a web hosting company right before the news of his sex tape broke. Given that his picture appears next to the tagline “Our nerds do it best all night long,” it would seem like the web hosting company, Globat, is in on the joke.

Globat denies knowing that Diamond’s nasty amateur porn video would come out right after it hired him as a spokesperson, but a source tells TMZ that Diamond’s manager told them something “huge” was about to happen:

Globat should just accept the publicity as they’re sure to get a lot more notice now, and they can keep claiming to have no idea that Diamond was such a nasty little man.

This latest news confirms the suspicion that Diamond released the sex tape to get much-needed publicity and cash. His manager said that it would only help him get more bookings for Diamond’s comedy act. As Agent Bedhead commented on our original post about this:

Despite everything I said about never wanting to watch “Saved by the Smell,” I of course tried to view it several times through TMZ’s website. The no doubt cring-inducing preview would not play for me, though, and I did a bunch of YouTube searches to no avail. Let’s hope that’s my last brush with this video.

Dustin Diamond, who played the annoying character Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” stars in an amateur sex tape and is seen getting it on with two ladies at once. The tape is currently being marketed to distributors including Larry Flynt and Vivid adult video.

Diamond either doesn’t care or is in on it. He works as a stand-up comic and his manager says the publicity should help his client:

I hadn’t heard of a “Dirty Sanchez” before, and believe me that you are better off not knowing what it is, but here’s the definition on Wikipedia.

Screech famously bragged to Howard Stern in June that he was “ten inches flaccid,” so if that’s true he’s probably thrilled that the video is out. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a cut of the profits. He resorted to selling T-Shirts online this summer to be able to pay for his house after the property value skyrocketed and he could no longer afford the mortgage.

Diamond also got some press in August when he was nearly robbed of his Playstation portable video games by an unknown woman who broke into his hotel room. She maced him and asked for money, and once she went for his precious video games he really got mad and was able to hold her down until police arrived.

Even if this video hits the net I am going to resist the urge to watch it. I didn’t think anything could skeeve me out more than the thought of eating a giant cockroach, but now I know what a “Dirty Sanchez” is.

Update: As Agent Bedhead points out, the title of the porn flick is “Saved by the Smell,” which I’ve finally realized is a reference to the bizarre “Dirty Sanchez” sex practice. Please someone help me to stop thinking about this.