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Saved By the Bell's Dustin Diamond hospitalised in cancer scare
Former child star Dustin Diamond has been rushed to hospital and could be facing a very serious prognosis.
The 44-year-old is best known for playing the loveable Samuel "Screech" Powers on the 90’s hit comedy series Saved By the Bell.
Now however the actor could be facing a diagnosis of cancer after TMZ reported he had been rushed to hospital in Florida.
The former star sought medical care after reportedly experiencing pain all over the body and a general feeling of ‘unease’.
TMZ claims that the medical team are running a series of tests, but they suspect the result could be cancer given the star’s family history with the disease – his mother died after a battle with breast cancer.
Dustin bought Screech to life for almost 13 years, cementing himself in 90’s pop culture from the tender age of 11.
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Initially, he played the role in Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1988, finishing up on Saved By the Bell between 1994-2000.
Though co-stars including Mario Lopez, Tori Spelling, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Elizabeth Burkley went on to celebrated careers, it wasn’t smooth sailing for Duston after the show wrapped.
He was famously embroiled in a sex tape scandal in 2006 in which he released a sex tape that he initially claimed he had starred in, however, he later admitted to Oprah it was a stunt double, and not him in the film.
He was a notable absence from the show’s reboot last year, after he released a ‘tell-all’ memoir of his time on the show called Behind the Bell back in 2009 that painted co-stars and production in a less than flattering light.
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