Remember that rollie pollie Josh? He is not the plump fellow any longer but rather transformed into a charming hunk. It could be hard to believe, but it’s more than 10 years now since the adored series “Drake & Josh” appeared on Nickelodeon. "Drake & Josh" outperformed the other Nickelodeon shows of the 2000s. While the show provided the audience some great amusement, it also acquainted Josh Peck to the world who was an instant hit.
Let’s take a look at his journey towards fame,how his body transformation helped him gain success and how that fat kid turned into a charming prince and how his name started to fall out of the limelight.
How Josh Peck got famous ?
Joshua Michael (Josh Peck) has some dark past. He was born on November 10, 1986 in Manhattan while his parents being unmarried during his time of birth. He couldn’t meet his biological father and was raised by his Jewish mother. Sitcoms were his area of interest since he was a child. He made his first step towards his successful career by appearing as a …show more content…
stand-up comedian at Caroline's Comedy Club. His performance convinced the team of The Amanda Show to offer him a role at the mere age of 13.
Josh moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of his acting career. In 2000, He made his film debut in Snow Day and appeared frequently on The Amanda Show till 2002, when the show ended. He featured in the film, Max Keeble's Big Move opposite to Alex D. Linz and Zena Grey, which was released in 2001. In an episode of the famous NBC drama ER(TV series) called "Thy Will Be Done", Josh appeared as a guest. He also featured in films like Spun and 2004's Mean Creek, for which he got huge commendation.
Then came the big thing, that changed Josh Peck’s life.He was casted alongside his old partner Drake Bell in Drake & Josh show. The show became a huge hit and laid the foundation for Peck’s career. He got really popular among the young audience. Peck’s character Josh Nichols was a chubby kid who was shrewd, clever, and organized, yet was continually being tormented. The Drake & Josh show ran from January 2004 to September 2007 comprising of 4 seasons. After this they together performed in TV film: Drake & Josh Go Hollywood. A sequel was also made Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp in the year 2007. Josh Peck was nominated as Favorite Television Actor at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for his work in Drake & Josh. Peck additionally contributed as a director in the Drake and Josh scene, Battle of Panthatar. He likewise coordinated his co-star Drake Bell's music video for the main theme of Drake & Josh, "Found a Way". He featured in the final show of “What's New, Scooby-Doo?”, a scene of Codename: Kids Next Door called Operation: C.A.K.E.D.- F.I.V.E., and the New Line Cinema film Havoc. Peck came back to the character of Josh Nichols in 2008 for the TV film Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh.
In 2006, Peck starred in the film Special, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and voiced Eddie, one of two possum siblings, in Ice Age: The Meltdown. Peck late featured in movies like Wackness, Safety Glass, American Primitive, and performed again as Eddie in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
In 2011, Peck had a cameo part on the hit Nickelodeon show Victorious.Then in 2012, Josh starred in the remake of Red Dawn. Again he voiced as Eddie, in Ice Age: Continental Drift. In 2013, he started voicing Casey Jones in the very popular show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Apart from his success story that has so much versatility, Josh Peck got really popular because of his weight loss.
Younger audiences started to idolize him after the highly popular show Drake & Josh. Josh made his mind to inspire the typical American kids. A very wise decision from his was to hire a personal physical trainer who had a close look on his diet and workout plan. He didn't go for weight reduction surgery or other undesirable weight reduction strategies to fix overweight issue. Rather, he utilized his fitness coach and changed his dietary patterns. From ordinary strolls, running, cardio workouts and other fat oxidation works out. This might be difficult to digest but Josh Peck lost close to 100 pounds. Many kids were motivated with this safe method for weight loss and their love for Josh increased. Later his fit body provided him many big opportunities in his acting
career.
What lead to his downfall
Beginning his profession at an extremely youthful age, Josh began to pick up acknowledgment really fast. From that point, it was all success for him. He was getting more popular and kept on attracting more fans.
Drake & Josh ended finally and Nickelodeon started to lose its popularity. Josh has already established his foothold in the industry by that time. But the character of Josh Nichols was simply irreplaceable.
Then at later stage , When Josh was working for movies like “ Cabin in the woods “ and “ Red Dawn”, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was filed for bankruptcy in Manhattan federal court after rejecting takeover bid by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and billionaire Carl Icahn. The years of money related battle reached a crucial stage in 2009, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc , denoting a peak to rebuilding of Hollywood studio that controls the James Bond movies and made "The Wizard of Oz." as an attempt to fight of bankruptcy by CEO Stephen Cooper. Along these lines, quite possibly, Peck lost demand in the most recent three years - something that Peck concedes was a trepidation for him also. Since then, His career lead to downfall due to Metro Goldwyn Mayer bankruptcy. This could be the reason for disappointing his fans past 3 years.
What he is doing now
In 2015, Peck was given a part as a lead in the comic show,”Grandfathered” . He stars near to John Stamos. Peck features as Gerald, smart and incredible in technical things plays a role in sitcom series Grandfathered as son of Jimmy played by John Stamos. Grandfathered appeared on September 29 and has gathered great reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Both Josh and Stamos are nominated for 2016 people’s choice awards as favorite “Actors In A New TV Series" and are strong contenders..
Not to forget, The Vine Star, Josh Peck makes hilarious vines along with his friends and also does vines about girls. He makes vines on “mean young girls “and “how girls react to different situations” and also very active on snapchat - joshuapeck. He is truly amazing and never fails to make us laugh.