Former child actor Tylor Chase has been homeless for years since falling on hard times. He is best known for his role as a fast-talking nerd on Nickelodeon’s show “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”.
Now 36, Tylor roams the streets of Riverside, California, eating out of garbage cans and picking up discarded items off the streets. He sleeps wherever he can and allegedly buys drugs with the money kindhearted people give him.
Footage of Tylor circulated on social media over the weekend, and celebrities reached out with offers of help.
Actor Shaun Weiss, who played Goldberg in “The Mighty Ducks,” offered to help Tylor if he would enter drug rehab. But Tylor declined.
Then Tylor’s former co-star, Daniel Curtis Lee drove 50 miles to Riverside to track Tylor down.
Daniel brought a cameraman to film their reunion.
TMZ published an emotional video of Daniel checking Tylor into a Riverside motel for the night.
Daniel tells TMZ that he spent part of the day with Tylor walking around and catching up over pizza before checking him into the motel.
Daniel says he plans to stay in touch with Tylor and support him whenever he can.
But X users criticized Daniel for filming Tylor for social media clout.
They say Daniel and his castmates knew Tylor was homeless months ago – and Daniel only helped Tylor after he went viral this week.
Daniel spoke about Tylor’s homeless situation on a podcast back in September. Fans wonder why he didn’t offer to help Tylor then.
Daniel even said he was “upset” because someone “put a camera on [Tylor’s] face in hard times.”
Influencer Colin Rugg also shamed Daniel for filming Tylor.
Colin tweeted: “Hopefully this filming trend can end and they can actually get him into a rehab center.”
X user @ManiamAkash wrote: “Wonderful gesture but they need to stop recording this man’s distress and broadcasting it.”
User @jdaley5487 wrote: “And a camera had to be there every step of the way…People really can’t be decent human beings in these times without being incentivized with clicks and likes, huh?”
@Breadddman wrote: “The people that film themselves helping him for clout are worse than the people who sold him the drugs imo.”
X user @borgirqing wrote: “How can anybody hate this. This is so wholesome.”
Watch the video below.
Homeless Child actor Tylor Chase met up with actor Daniel Curtis Lee and they got him a hotel. ??pic.twitter.com/Z3LzejNKn5
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) December 24, 2025
