‘The Office’ creator, Ricky Gervais a target of fraud

The man behind NBC’s hugely popular sit-com, ‘The Office’ has now revealed he was the focus of a scam that would leave even Dunder Mifflin’s most incompetent drones on the floor in hysterics.

Ricky Gervais, who created the BBC’s original ‘Office’ back in 2001, told the UK’s Daily Mail that fraudsters lifted $330,000 from his personal account, then used it to order gold bullion. But their devious plans came unglued when they arrived at a bank and used a badly faked passport as ID to collect their rewards.
“The policeman told me these type of crooks normally get a passport from either a dead man or steal one and replace it with your details and picture,” Gervais told the scribes. “Then he showed me the passport.”
Rick, 48, says the crooks had simply cut his head off a DVD box and glued it in place. Once he saw the result, the next ten minutes was spent in unfettered laughter with the attending detective;
“Can you imagine what was in charge of getting the photo?” Rick asks, with a grin. “Dave, you’re doing this thing; Julie, you’re on the inside at the bank; Bert, can you get a picture?…Why are you going to Wal Mart??”
The intellectually untroubled robbers were easily captured, but despite their sick plot to remove all his cash Rick didn’t attend the court to see these incompetents jailed. The millionaire star got his money returned and is now moving on with his life…

Office star, John Krasinski to wed Emily Blunt

While Jim Halpert, his character in NBC’s ‘The Office,’ is about to get married to his long-time acquaintance, John Krasinski is set to achieve a unique double-header – He’s now set to marry the actress, Emily Blunt. The 6′3” Massachusetts-born actor has been dating British import, Ms. Blunt, 26, since last November, but neither has married before. “We can confirm that John and Emily are engaged,” a rep for Krasinski, 29, told NBC. Emily, who was previously connected with singing star, Michael Buble, is perhaps best known her her role in ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ after which Meryl Streep, who headlined the flick, described her as “the best young actress I’ve worked with in years…Perhaps ever!“

The next season of Jim’s current showcase, ‘The Office’ will finally witness his marriage to receptionist, Pam. And the actress who plays her, Jenna Fischer, is also engaged in real life – to long-time boyfriend Lee Kirk. The pair began dating in January last year, and Lee proposed back in June while they were touring in Europe. Jen was married for eight years to actor, James Gunn, but they divorced in early ‘08 so it’s cool.